History and belonging : representations of the past in contemporary European politics

History and belonging : representations of the past in contemporary European politics / edited by Stefan Berger and Caner Tekin.

In cultural and intellectual terms, one of the EU's most important objectives in pursuing unification has been to develop a common historical narrative of Europe. Across ten compelling case studies, this volume examines the premises underlying such a project to ask: Could such an uncontested hi...

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Other Authors: Berger, Stefan (Editor), Tekin, Caner (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Berghahn Books Ltd., 2018.
Series:Making sense of history ; 33.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Political culture > Europe.
Collective memory > Europe.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Collective memory
Political culture
Politics and government > Historiography
Europe > Politics and government > 20th century > Historiography.
Europe
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Table of Contents:
  • Exhibiting post-national identity: The house of European history / Daniel Rosenberg
  • The European Union and the historiography of European integration: Dangerous liaisons? / Orianne Calligaro
  • Representations of national cultures vis-a-vis the 'European' at the European Union National Institutes for Culture / Claudia Schneider
  • Europe
  • a concept in its own right or an intermediate state between national traditions and global interrelatedness? Representations of Europe in curricula, textbooks and surveys / Falk Pingel
  • The past in english euroscepticism / Ben Wellings and Chris Gifford
  • (Trans)national memories of the common past in the post-Yugoslav space / Jelena Dureinovic
  • Disturbing memories: Coming to terms with the Stalinist history of Europe / Claudia Weber
  • 'Glorious, accursed Europe' a fictional historian, transcultural holocaust memory and the quest for a European identity / Judith Muller
  • Who lost Turkey? The consequences of writing an exclusionary European history / Paul T. Levin
  • Conceptualisations of Turkey's past in the European Parliament / Caner Tekin.

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