Writing the Nation

A Global Perspective

• Author(s): Stefan Berger,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 243
• ISBN_10: 0230223052
  ISBN_13: 9780230223059
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Social History , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Social Science / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , History / Historiography , History / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... This book brings together experts on national history writing from all five continents to discuss the role of history in the making of national identities in a transnational and comparative way. The institutionalization and professionalisation of history writing is analysed in the context of history's increasing nationalization.