Historians and Nationalism : East-Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century PDF
by Monika Baar
Part of the Oxford Historical Monographs series
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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 intheir respective countries, Baár illuminates the complexities of historical writing in the region in the nineteenth century. Drawing on previously untranslated documents, Baár 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.
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