Writing National Histories

<p>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:<br> * history as legitimation in post-revolutionary France<br> * unity and confederation in the Italian Risorgimento<br> * German historians as critics of Prussian conservatism<br> * right-wing history writing in France between the wars<br> * British historiography from Macauley to Trevelyan<br> * the search for national identity in the reunified Germany.</p>