Conflicted Memories: Europeanizing Contemporary Histories

Published by Berghahn Books 2007

Conflicted Memories

Europeanizing Contemporary Histories

Edited by: Konrad H. Jarausch and Thomas Lindenberger

In the series Studies in Contemporary European History

Volume 3 in the series Contemporary European History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857453600

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Despite the growing interest in general European history, the European dimension is surprisingly absent from the writing of contemporary history. In most countries, the historiography on the 20th century continues to be dominated by national perspectives. Although there is cross-national work on specific topics such as occupation or resistance, transnational conceptions and narratives of contemporary European history have yet to be worked out. This volume focuses on the development of a shared conception of recent European history that will be required as an underpinning for further economic and political integration so as to make lasting cooperation on the old continent possible. It tries to overcome the traditional national framing that ironically persists just at a time when organized efforts to transform Europe from an object of debate to an actual subject have some chance of succeeding in making it into a polity in its own right.

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Konrad H. Jarausch is director of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam and Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. His research interest is currently focused on the German unification in 1989/90, the nature of the East German dictatorship and the problem of interpreting 20th-century German history in general. His publications include The Shattered Past: Reconstructing German Histories with Michael Geyer (Princeton 2002) and Die Umkehr: Deutsche Wandlungen 1945-1995 (München 2004).

Thomas Lindenberger is project leader at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam and teaches at Potsdam University. His current research interests center on questions of mass media in the Cold War as well as on issues of historical methodology and theory. His publications include Öffentliche Polizei im Staatssozialismus: Volkspolizei, SED-Staat und Herrschaftspraxis, 1952-1968 (Köln et al. 2003); and the edited volumes Herrschaft und Eigen-Sinn in der Diktatur: Studien zur Gesellschaftsgeschichte der DDR (Köln 1999) and Massenmedien im Kalten Krieg: Akteure, Bilder, Resonanzen (Cologne, 2006).

Konrad H. Jarausch is director of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam and Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. His research interest is currently focused on the German unification in 1989/90, the nature of the East German dictatorship and the problem of interpreting 20th-century German history in general. His publications include The Shattered Past: Reconstructing German Histories with Michael Geyer (Princeton 2002) and Die Umkehr: Deutsche Wandlungen 1945-1995 (München 2004).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
LIST OF ACRONYMNS Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction CONTOURS OF A CRITICAL HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPE: A TRANSNATIONAL AGENDA Konrad H. Jarausch and Thomas Lindenberger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1 CONTESTED MEMORIES
Chapter 1 HISTORY OF MEMORY, POLICIES OF THE PAST: WHAT FOR? Henry Rousso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 2 COMMUNIST LEGACIES IN THE ‘NEW EUROPE’: HISTORY, ETHNICITY, AND THE CREATION OF A ‘SOCIALIST’ NATION IN ROMANIA, 1945–1989 Dragoş Petrescu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Chapter 3 WRITING NATIONAL HISTORIES IN EUROPE: REFLECTIONS ON THE PASTS, PRESENTS, AND FUTURES OF A TRADITION Stefan Berger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Chapter 4 BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE NATION: THE INWARD TURN OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORICAL WRITING Pieter Lagrou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Part 2 MULTIPLE CONFLICTS
Chapter 5 WAR AND CONFLICT IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY, 1914–2004 John Horne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Chapter 6 IN SEARCH OF A TRANSNATIONAL HISTORICIZATION: NATIONAL SOCIALISM AND ITS PLACE IN HISTORY Kiran Klaus Patel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
Chapter 7 THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR IN EURASIA: A BORDERLAND PERSPECTIVE Alfred Rieber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Part 3 TRANSNATIONAL INTERACTIONS
Chapter 8 EUROPE AS LEISURE TIME COMMUNICATION: TOURISM AND TRANSNATIONAL INTERACTION SINCE 1945 Thomas Mergel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Chapter 9 INTEGRATION FROM BELOW? MIGRATION AND EUROPEAN CONTEMPORARY HISTORY Karen Schönwälder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Chapter 10 TWENTIETH-CENTURY CULTURE, ‘AMERICANIZATION,’ AND EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL SPACE Marsha Siefert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
Chapter 11 ECONOMICS OF WESTERN EUROPEAN INTEGRATION? PROVING THE BENEFITS, 1952–1973 André Steiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Part 4 UNFINISHED POLITICAL PROCESSES
Chapter 12 A EUROPEAN CIVIL SOCIETY? Hartmut Kaelble Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Chapter 13 INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST ATTEMPTS AT BRIDGE-BUILDING IN THE EARLY POSTWAR PERIOD Örjan Appelqvist Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Chapter 14 NATION BUILDING IN THE ERA OF INTEGRATION: THE CASE OF MOLDOVA Igor Caşu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Postscript THE SUBJECT(S) OF EUROPE Michael Geyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Keywords: History: 20th Century to Present; Memory Studies

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Published: May 1, 2007
ISBN: 9780857453600