Historians and Nationalism: East-Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780199681990)

Peripheral cultures have been largely absent from the European canon of historiography. Seeking to redress the balance, Monika Baar discusses the achievements of five East-Central European historians in the nineteenth century: Joachim Lelewel (Polish); Simonas Daukantas (Lithuanian); Frantisek Palacky (Czech); Mihaly Horvath (Hungarian) and Mihail Kogalniceanu (Romanian). Comparing their efforts to promote a unified vision of national culture in their respective countries, Baar illuminates the complexities of historical writing in the region in the nineteenth century.

Drawing on previously untranslated documents, Baar reconstructs the scholars' shared intellectual background and their nationalistic aims, arguing that historians on the European periphery made significant contributions to historical writing, and had far more in common with their Western and Central European contemporaries than has been previously assumed.

Author: Monika Baar,Monika Baaar
ISBN-10: 0199681996
ISBN-13: 9780199681990
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Language: English
Published: 08/24/2013
Pages: 354
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d