The Contested Nation

This volume asks which national histories underpinned which national identity constructions in almost every nation state in Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores the construction of national identities through history writing and analyses their interrelationship with histories of ethnicity/race, class and religion.

STEFAN BERGER is Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester. He has published widely in the fields of nationalism and national identity studies, labour studies, and the history of historiography. His most recent monograph is Inventing the Nation: Germany (2004).

CHRIS LORENZ is Professor of Philosophy of History at the Free University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He published predominantly on philosophy of history, historiography and on higher education policy. His book De Constructie van het Verleden has been translated into German (1997) and will also appear in English and Chinese.