National History
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A National History is a history or a nation state.
- AKA:
- Counter-Example(s):
- an Ethnic History.
- a Gender History, e.g. Women's History.
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- See: Ethnic Nationalism, Historiography, Nationalism, Cultural Identity.
References
2021
- (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalist_historiography Retrieved:2021-1-19.
- Historiography is the study of how history is written. One pervasive influence upon the writing of history has been nationalism, a set of beliefs about political legitimacy and cultural identity. Nationalism has provided a significant framework for historical writing in Europe and in those former colonies influenced by Europe since the nineteenth century. According to the medieval historian Patrick J. Geary:
[The] modern [study of] history was born in the nineteenth century, conceived and developed as an instrument of European nationalism. As a tool of nationalist ideology, the history of Europe's nations was a great success, but it has turned our understanding of the past into a toxic waste dump, filled with the poison of ethnic nationalism, and the poison has seeped deep into popular consciousness.
- Historiography is the study of how history is written. One pervasive influence upon the writing of history has been nationalism, a set of beliefs about political legitimacy and cultural identity. Nationalism has provided a significant framework for historical writing in Europe and in those former colonies influenced by Europe since the nineteenth century. According to the medieval historian Patrick J. Geary:
2018
- (Lepore, 2018) ⇒ Jill Lepore. (2018). “These Truths: A History of the United States.” WW Norton & Company. ISBN:978-0-393-63524-9
- QUOTE: ... History isn’t only a subject; it’s also a method. My method is, generally, to let the dead speak for themselves. I’ve pressed their words between these pages, like flowers, for their beauty, or like insects, for their hideousness. The work of the historian is not the work of the critic or of the moralist; it is the work of the sleuth and the storyteller, the philosopher and the scientist, the keeper of tales, the sayer of sooth, the teller of truth. ...