Transnational Challenges to National History Writing, 2015 Writing the Nation Series

This collection of essays argues that there is an pre-history, that is, a longer tradition of the transnationalization of historical culture and historical science. It seeks to substantiate the claim that history writing reflected the globality of its time as much as followed the nationalization of the societies in which it was produced.

Acknowledgements Note on the Contributors 1. The Various Forms of Transcending the Horizon of National History Writing; M.Middell and L. Roura Aulinas 2. Comparison and Transfer. A Question of Method; M.Espagne 3. The Writing of World History in Europe from the Middle of the Nineteenth Century to the Present: Conceptual Renewal and Challenge to National Histories; M.Middell and K.Naumann 4. Area Studies and the Writing of Non-European History in Europe; A.Eckert 5. Imperial History; A.Friedrichs and M.Mesenhöller 6. Colonisation, Decolonisation, and Imperial Historiography of the Iberian Peninsula; L. Roura Aulinas 7. A la recherché d'histoire imperial. Histories of Russia from the Nineteenth-Century to the Early Twenty-First Century; M.Aust 8. Regional History as a 'Challenge' to National Frameworks of Historiography. The Case of Central, Southeast, and Northern Europe; D.Mishkova, B.Stråth and B.Trencsényi 9. The Canon of European History and the Conceptual Framework of National Historiographies; A.Liakos 10. The French Revolution and its Historiographies; J-C.Martin 11. Historians in the Storm. Emigré Historiography in the 20th Century; E.Tortarolo 12. How Regional, National, and Transnational History have (not) been written in Belgium. Reflections within a European Perspective; G.Warland and M.Van Ginderachter 13. A New Challenge to the Writing of History in Europe at the End of the Twentieth Century?; M.Middell and K.Naumann Bibliography Index of Names

MARTIN AUST Professor of Eastern European and Russian History at LMU Munich, Germany ANDREAS ECKERT Professor at the Department for African and Asian Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Michel Espagne Directeur de Recherche' of a research team at the Ecole normal supérieure, France ANNE FRIEDRICHS Postdoctoral Researcherat the Leuphana University of Lu?neburg, Germany ANTONIS LIAKOS Professor of Contemporary History and History of Historiography at the University of Athens, Greece JEAN-CLÉMENT MARTIN Emeritus Professor of University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne and former director of the Institut d'Histoire de la Révolution française, France MATHIAS MESENHÖLLER earned his PhD from Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in 2007 and works as free lance journalist in Berlin, Germany DIANA MISHKOVA Professor in Modern History of Southeastern Europe at Sofia University and Director of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia, Bulgaria KATJA NAUMANN holds a research fellowship at the Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe at the University of Leipzig (GWZO), Germany BO STRÅTH Academy of Finland Distinguished Professor in Nordic, European and World History at the Helsinki University, Finland EDOARDO TORTAROLO Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy BALÁZS TRENCSÉNYI Associate Professor at the History Department and co-director of Pasts, Inc., Center for Historical Studies at CEU, Budapest, Hungary MAARTEN VAN GINDERACHTER Associate Professor at the Department of History (Centre of political history) of Antwerp University, Belgium GENEVIÈVE WARLAND Research Assistant in History at Saint Louis University, Brussels, Belgium