Writing National Histories - Paperback / softback

This book examines comparatively how the writing of history by individuals and groups, historians, politicians and journalists has been used to "legitimate" the nation-state agianst socialist, communist and catholic internationalism in the modern era. Covering the whole of Western Europe, the book includes discussion of * history as legitimation in post-revolutionary Franc * unity and confederation in the Italian Risorgiment * German historians as critics of Prussian conservatis * right-wing history writing in France between the war * British historiography from Macauley to Trevelya * the search for national identity in the reunified Germany.