Historians and Nationalism: East-Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century

Historians and Nationalism: East-Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century

2010 | 320 | ISBN: 0199581185 | PDF | 2 Mb

Peripheral cultures be in actual possession of been largely absent from the European law of historiography. Seeking to redress the counterpoise, Monika Baar discusses the achievements of five East-Central European historians in the nineteenth hundred years: Joachim Lelewel (Polish); Simonas Daukantas (Lithuanian); Frantisek Palacky (Czech); Mihaly Horvath (Hungarian) and Mihail Kogalniceanu (Romanian). Comparing their efforts to aid a unified vision of national improvement in their respective countries, Baar illuminates the complexities of historical hand in the region in the nineteenth hundred years....