Setting the standards
| Titel: | Setting the standards : institutions, networks and communities of national historiography / ed. by Ilaria Porciani ... |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 |
| Umfang: | XV, 436 Seiten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Writing the nation ; 2 |
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| ISBN: | 9780230500051 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Cover |
X
- List of Tables and Figures
- p. x
- Notes on Contributors
- p. xi
- Introduction
- 1
- Institutions, Networks and Communities in a European Perspective
- p. 3
- An age of history
- p. 5
- Productive history
- p. 7
- Professional history
- p. 10
- Continuity and discontinuity
- p. 15
- Historiographical generations
- p. 20
- A broader scope
- p. 21
- Part I
- 2
- 'Something More than a Storage Warehouse': The Creation of National Archives
- p. 29
- Movement
- p. 31
- Centralisation
- p. 33
- Publicity
- p. 34
- Towards history
- p. 35
- Professionalisation
- p. 37
- Autonomy and bricks
- p. 39
- In history
- p. 41
- 3
- Monumental Undertakings: Source Publications for the Nation
- p. 47
- New impulses
- p. 48
- Great enterprises
- p. 51
- Doing national history by editing
- p. 54
- Media, techniques and infrastructures
- p. 57
- Diversification and consolidation
- p. 60
- 4
- Scholarly Communication with a Political Impetus: National Historical Journals
- p. 70
- In a professional context
- p. 72
- In a political context
- p. 77
- Epilogue: After the Second World War
- p. 80
- 5
- The Dictionary Is Dead, Long Live the Dictionary! Biographical Collections in National Contexts
- p. 89
- 'Signification de ces mots: Biographie Nationale'
- p. 90
- A golden age
- p. 92
- Workshops
- p. 97
- The dictionary is still alive
- p. 100
- 6
- Exegi Monumentum: The Great Syntheses of National History
- p. 105
- The Romantic generation
- p. 106
- The high point: Around 1900
- p. 108
- For science and one's country
- p. 113
- Many readers
- p. 115
- Prestigious ventures
- p. 119
- A long history
- p. 123
- 7
- Nations on Display: History Museums in Europe
- p. 130
- French prologue: A house for the nation's history
- p. 130
- 'Zooming out'
- p. 132
- At the origin: The nation
- p. 134
- Associations: From regions to empires
- p. 137
- An earlier home for history: From Berlin to Bonn and back
- p. 141
- Towards the nation once more
- p. 143
- Part II
- 8
- In the Provinces: Local and Regional Learned Societies
- p. 153
- An intellectual elite
- p. 154
- The rise of national history
- p. 156
- Genuine diversity
- p. 158
- 9
- Wishful Thinking: Academic Competitions in National History
- p. 165
- The spirit of the age
- p. 166
- Language, unity and distinctiveness
- p. 168
- A plurality of histories
- p. 171
- Educating the nation, disseminating the results
- p. 174
- Epilogue
- p. 177
- 10
- 'A Daily Working Group Together in One House': Research Institutes at the National Academies of Sciences in East Central Europe
- p. 183
- Background and precursors
- p. 185
- Initial environment and first directors
- p. 186
- Structure, priorities and large-scale projects
- p. 188
- The position of the institutes at home
- p. 191
- In the 'ecumenical community of historians'
- p. 193
- Deep structural similarities?
- p. 194
- 11
- Serving the Profession: National Associations of Historians
- p. 202
- The German Historikerverband: An example
- p. 202
- Tasks and means
- p. 205
- Types of development: Active versus inactive national associations
- p. 213
- Types of development: Professionalisation
- p. 216
- 12
- Places of Innovation and Exchange: The Extra-University Institutions for Historical Research
- p. 224
- Scientific innovation, crucial topics
- p. 225
- An institutional 'stopgap'
- p. 228
- Different careers?
- p. 231
- An active state
- p. 233
- By way of conclusion
- p. 237
- 13
- Militancy and Pluralism: Party and Church Institutes of Contemporary History in Western Europe since 1945
- p. 240
- History and engagement
- p. 240
- Pioneering institutions
- p. 241
- The legacy of the Second World War
- p. 244
- La via italiana
- p. 245
- France: politique d'abord
- p. 249
- The Federal Republic of Germany: The university ties
- p. 253
- A national pluralism in Belgium
- p. 258
- Conclusions
- p. 260
- 14
- Wider Connections: International Networks among European Historians
- p. 266
- The primacy of the national
- p. 267
- Towards internationalisation
- p. 268
- The International Historical Congresses
- p. 270
- The International Committee of Historical Sciences: Its organisations and committees
- p. 272
- The proliferation of sub-disciplines
- p. 275
- International history institutes
- p. 278
- History regions
- p. 280
- The role of languages
- p. 281
- The American connection
- p. 283
- Part III
- 15
- A New Community of Scholars: The University Professors at Work
- p. 291
- The professor's home
- p. 291
- The organisation of the 'profession'
- p. 294
- Method and ethos
- p. 300
- Provisional conclusion: A long decline?
- p. 307
- 16
- A Truculent Revenge: The Clergy and the Writing of National History
- p. 313
- The presence of the clergy
- p. 314
- Reactive activism
- p. 319
- Conclusion
- p. 323
- 17
- Bulwark of Traditions: The European Nobility and Regional and National Historiography in the Nineteenth Century
- p. 330
- Enthusiasts of antiquarian societies, academies and historical commissions
- p. 332
- Collectors and managers of academic projects
- p. 335
- Archivists and librarians
- p. 337
- Authors of regional and national histories
- p. 340
- Masters in the field of heraldry
- p. 344
- The good and exemplary noble lord
- p. 345
- 18
- Popular Writers: Women Historians, the Academic Community and National History Writing
- p. 351
- A tiny minority
- p. 351
- An unacknowledged contribution
- p. 356
- Writers of popular history
- p. 357
- Missing academic support
- p. 360
- Conclusion
- p. 366
- 19
- Striving for Visibility: Nationalists in Multinational Empires and States
- p. 372
- Two 'non-historical' nations: Slovenes and Slovaks
- p. 374
- Counterweights to an elephant: Scotland and Wales
- p. 378
- Repression and interdiction before the new blooming season: Catalonia
- p. 384
- Conclusion
- p. 388
- 20
- Living in the Past: Historians in Exile
- p. 394
- The writer: Poles in the nineteenth century
- p. 395
- The Professor: Germans in the inter-war period
- p. 399
- The Institute: Eastern Europeans in the Cold War
- p. 404
- Conclusion
- p. 408
- Concluding Remarks
- 21
- Historians and the Web
- p. 415
- Uncertainty, loss of prestige and a changing public role
- p. 415
- The digital turn
- p. 418
- Index
- p. 423
