Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Comparative perspectives -- Apologias for the nation-state in Western Europe since 1800 STEFAN BERGER WITH MARK DONOVAN AND KEVIN PASSMORE -- Nationalism and historiography, 1789 1996: the German example in historical perspective GEORG G.IGGERS -- Literature, liberty and life of the nation: British historiography from Macaulay to Trevelyan BENEDIKT STUCHTEY -- The age of bourgeois revolution -- History as a principle of legitimation in France (1820 48) CERI CROSSLEY -- National unification and narrative unity: the case of Ranke's German History PATRICK BAHNERS -- Unity and confederation in the Italian Risorgimento: the case of Carlo Cattaneo MARTIN THOM -- The age of the masses -- Taine and the nation-state STUART JONES -- 'Prussians in a good sense': German historians as critics of Prussian conservatism, 1890 1920 ALASTAIR THOMPSON -- The search for a 'national' history: Italian historiographical trends following unification MAURO MORETTI -- Liberal democracy and antifascism (1918 45) -- Marc Bloch as a critic of historiographical nationalism in the interwar years PETER SCHTTLER -- From antifascist to Volkshistoriker: demos and ethnos in the political thought of Fritz ROrig, 1921 45 PETER LAMBERT -- Reclaiming Italy? Antifascist historians and history in Justice and Liberty PHILIP MORGAN -- Fascist historiography and the nation-state -- Right-wing historiographical models in France, 1918 45 BERTRAM M.GORDON -- German historiography under National Socialism: dreams of a powerful nation-state and German Volkstum come true HANS SCHLEIER -- Gioacchino Volpe and fascist historiography in Italy MARTIN CLARK -- The Cold War years -- Rebuilding France: Gaullist historiography, the rise -- fall myth and French identity (1945 58) HUGO FREY.

Dividing the past, defining the present: historians and national identity in the two Germanies MARY FULBROOK -- A neglected question: Historians and the Italian national state (1945 95) ROBERTO VIVARELLI -- Contemporary trends -- Historians and the nation in contemporary France JULIAN JACKSON -- Historians and the search for national identity in the reunified Germany STEFAN BERGER -- Historians and the 'First Republic' CARL LEVY -- Conclusion -- Historians and the nation-state: some conclusions KEVIN PASSMORE WITH STEFAN BERGER AND MARK DONOVAN -- Index.