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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796816203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

1-78533-881-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 pages)

Collana

Making Sense of History: Studies in Historical Cultures ; ; Volume 33

Disciplina

940.5072

Soggetti

Political culture - Europe

Collective memory - Europe

Europe Politics and government 20th century Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 history of Europe ever exist? Combining studies of national politics, supranational institutions, and the fraught EU-Mideast periphery with a particular focus on the twentieth century, the contributors to History and Belonging offer a fascinating survey of the attempt to forge a post-national identity politics.