Disputed Territories and Shared Pasts

A collection of essays on European historiography, focussing on the overlapping national histories in Europe presenting many of the contested areas through conflicting historiographies. Sponsored by the European Science Foundation, this unique volume is part of Writing the Nation , a major international project.

Auteur
JACOB BARNAI Professor, Departments of Jewish History and of Israel Studies, University of Haifa, Israel RAGNAR BJÖRK Associate Professor, Södertörn University, Sweden CIARAN BRADY Fellow, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of History, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland CHRISTOPHER FISCHER Assistant Professor of History, Indiana State University, USA JÖRG HACKMANN DAAD Alfred-Döblin-Professor of East European History, University of Szczecin, Poland ILKKA LIIKANEN Professor of Border and Russian Studies, Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland ANDREW LUDANYI Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio, USA XOSÉ-MANOEL NÚÑEZ Professor of Modern History, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain ROBIN OKEY Emeritus Professor, University of Warwick, UK UFFE ØSTERGÅRD Professor of European and Danish History, International Centre for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Demark MILAN ?EPA Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic NIEK VAN SAS Professor of Modern History, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands RAFAL STOBIECKI Professor, Chair of the History of Historiography, Lodz University, Lodz, Poland WERNER SUPPANZ Assistant Professor, Institute of History Contemporary History, University of Graz, Austria

Contenu
List of Maps, Illustrations and Figures Acknowledgments Notes on the Contributors Nations, Borders and the Historical Profession: On the Complexity of Historiographical Overlaps in Europe; T.Frank & F.Hadler PART I: OVERLAPS ALONGSIDE STATE BORDERS The Overlapping Histories of Sweden and Norway: The Union from 1814 to 1905; R.Björk 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.Østergård The Trophy of Titans: Alsace-Lorraine between France and Germany, 1870-1945; C.Fischer The Legacy of Transylvania in Romanian and Hungarian Historiography; A.Ludányi PART III: OVERLAPS OF ETHNIC, NATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS GROUPS 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.?epa The Iberian Peninsula: Real and Imagined Overlaps; X.-M.Núñez Overlapping National Historiographies in Bosnia-Herzegovina; R.Okey Eretz Israel - Filastin - The Holy Land: Main Dilemmas in Israeli Historiography; J. Barnai Select Bibliographies Index