Disputed Territories And Shared Pasts

Description:
National historical writings in Europe traditionally deal with acts of aggression, hostile neighbours and international conflicts across borders, presenting history as a narrative of suffering and victories. For centuries, national histories have been constructed as sequences of battles and wars, with war heroes playing key roles. Yet, major victories for any one nation invariably cause tragedies for others. Historians in different national communities have written comparable histories about their shared pasts in contested territories: it is this phenomenon that we call 'overlapping national histories' in this book. Disputed Territories, Shared Pasts focuses on the historiographical overlaps in Europe, presenting many of the contested areas alongside state borders, in historical regions between states, and among ethnic groups and nations within states. Sponsored by the European Science Foundation, the present volume is part of the Writing the Nation series, a major international project on the history of historiography in Europe.

Table of Contents:
List of Maps and Illustrations Acknowledgments Notes on the Contributors Territories, Borders, Nations: Competing European Historiographies in the 19th and 20th Centuries. An Introduction; T.Frank& F.Hadler PART I: OVERLAPS ALONGSIDE STATE BORDERS The Overlapping Histories of Sweden and Norway: The Union from 1814 to 1905; R.Bjork Conflicting Sovereignties: The Habsburg Monarchy in Hungarian Historiography; T.Frank Supranationality and National Overlaps: The Habsburg Monarchy in Austrian historiography after 1918; W.Suppanz German East or Polish West? Historiographical Discourses on the German-Polish Overlap between Confrontation and Reconciliation, 1772-2000; J.Hackmann National History and Imperial History: A Look at Polish-Russian Historiographical Disputes on the Borderlands in the 19th and 20th Centuries; R.Stobiecki The Great Netherlands Controversy: A Clash of Great Historians; N.van Sas Main Dilemmas in Israeli Historiography; J.Barnai PART II: OVERLAPS IN HISTORICAL REGIONS BETWEEN STATES The Origins of the Eastern Border as the Grand Controversy of Finnish National History Writing; I.Liikanen Schleswig and Holstein in Danish and German Historiography; U.A stergard The Trophy of Titans: Alsace-Lorraine between France and Germany, 1870-1945; C.Fischer The Legacy of Transylvania in Romanian and Hungarian Historiography; A.Ludanyi PART III: OVERLAPS OF ETHNIC GROUPS AND NATIONS WITHIN STATES Arrested Development: Competing Histories and the Formation of the Irish Historical Profession, 1801-1938; C.Brady The Czechs, Germans and Sudetenland: Historiographical Dispute in the 'Heart of Europe'; M.A epa The Iberian Peninsula: Real and Imagined Overlaps; X.-M.Nunez Overlapping National Historiographies in Bosnia-Herzegovina; R.Okey Select Bibliographies Index

Author Biography:
TIBOR FRANK is Professor of History and Director of the School of English and American Studies at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary. He has published widely on transatlantic relations, international migrations, imagology, and historiography. His most recent monograph is Double Exile: Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals through Germany to the United States 1919-1945 (Oxford, 2009). FRANK HADLER is Research Coordinator and Project Director of the Geisteswissenschafliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas (GWZO) at Leipzig University, Germany. Publications on the history and culture of East Central Europe and the history of historiography inlclude most recently, Lost Greatness and Past Oppression in East Central Europe: Representations of Imperial Experience in Historiography since 1918 (Leipzig, 2007).