What is German History? Reflections on the Role of the Nation in German History and Historiography

Sheehan, James J.

doi:10.1086/242239

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“…What is "German history," for example and should it include Austria, East Prussia and Sudentenland? 22 Who founded the city of Paris: the Gauls or the Romans? Was the Roman city of Lutetia built on top of the original Gallic Oppidum?…”

Section: Anthropologymentioning

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Nation Building, History Writing and Competition over the Legacy of Kyiv Rus in Ukraine

Adjunct¹

2005

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This article surveys the history of Kyiv Rus within the realm of nation building, identity and historical myths. It argues that Ukraine's elites believe that Western, Russian and Soviet schools of history on Kyiv Rus (and Ukraine) are incompatible with nation and state building.Two schools-Ukrainophile and East Slavic-compete within Ukraine. Nevertheless, the former has been promoted as the dominant school by ruling elites, many of whom date from the Soviet Ukrainian SSR and might personally favour the East Slavic framework. As Stepanenko states, Hrushevsky "is factually theorizing the most convincing version of Ukrainian history." 1 This article therefore shows how the elites have concluded that the Ukrainophile school is more compatible with post-Soviet Ukrainian nation building. This factor is of interest to scholars because the Ukrainophile school was, and in some cases still is, defined as "nationalist" (i.e. in effect, unscholarly) by Western and Russian historians.The article is divided into two sections. The first provides a theoretical and comparative overview of historical myths and nation building within studies of nationalism in political science, anthropology and postcolonialism studies. It then discusses the competition between the Ukrainophile and East Slavic as a not untypical postmodernist phenomenon.The second section discusses how the Ukrainophile view of the Kyiv Rus legacy is being promoted and contested by the East Slavic alternative. 2 This alternative is surveyed within education, the security forces, symbols, monuments and warding off territorial claims by neighbours. Reclaiming the Past: A Theoretical OverviewWithin studies of nationalism in political science, anthropology and postcolonial studies the rewriting of history and historical myths is often treated in different ways. Nevertheless, in all three scholarly studies (although not in mainstream political science) the issue of myths and history writing is largely understood as part of the nation-building aspects of nation-states.

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Nation Building, History Writing and Competition over the Legacy of Kyiv Rus in Ukraine

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2005

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“…1 This is the tradition and the institutional environment within which contemporary historians conduct their research and write their texts, reconstructing and reinforcing the structures of power that they experience. The concept of the nation has been approached from two basically different perspectives.…”

Section: The Construction Of National Time: the Making Of The Modern mentioning

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The Construction of National Time: The Making of the Modern Greek Historical Imagination

Liakos¹

2001

Mediterranean Historical Review

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“…36 When Evans first came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s, it was still possible to speak of a distinctly British approach to the German past. 4 Far more significant in shaping German historiography, with influence more subtly enabling as well as direct, were three generalists, who inspired the kinds of questions, as well as the temperamental posture (an instinct toward intellectual heterodoxy), which the first generations of specifically German historians were then to adopt: Alan John Percivale (A.J.P.) 2 In what follows I will venture some general thoughts on the formation and trajectory of German history as a later twentieth-century field of academic knowledge, focusing on several broad generational patterns.…”

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Rewriting German History

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Wachsmann²

2015

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What is German History? Reflections on the Role of the Nation in German History and Historiography

Cited by 62 publications

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Nation Building, History Writing and Competition over the Legacy of Kyiv Rus in Ukraine

Nation Building, History Writing and Competition over the Legacy of Kyiv Rus in Ukraine

The Construction of National Time: The Making of the Modern Greek Historical Imagination

Rewriting German History

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