TY - BOOK AU - Berger,Stefan AU - Conrad,Christoph TI - The past as history: national identity and historical consciousness in modern Europe T2 - Writing the Nation SN - 9781137414090 PY - 2014/// CY - Basingstoke PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - gnd KW - Nationalbewusstsein KW - Nationalismus KW - Nationenbildung KW - Geschichtsbewusstsein KW - Geschichtsschreibung KW - Europa N1 - 1. Introduction Constructing the Nation Through History 2. National History Before the Nation State from the High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment 3. The Invention of European National Traditions During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century 4. Scientificity and Historiographical Nationalism, 1850-1914 5. National Histories in and between the World Wars 6. National Histories from post-Second World War to post-Cold War 7. Conclusion What Balance Sheet and What Future for National Histories? N2 - The book provides a synthesis of the development of the genre of national history writing in Europe, in particular it seeks to illuminate the relationship between history writing and the construction of national identities in modern Europe ER -