National history

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The national history is a pattern of interpretation and at the same time a kind of history , in the history of the nation-state perspective is considered. In the process, a myth of the origin and creation of a nation is to be created scientifically . The national consciousness thus promoted contributes to the consolidation of the state as a political unit. Political interests are often at play in German historiography in the 19th and 20th centuries. Examples are Heinrich von Sybel and Heinrich von Treitschke , for whom the political function of historiography is in the foreground.

For a long time, political history or universal history or world history was viewed almost exclusively from a nation-state perspective. Adolphe Thiers , Jules Michelet , Hippolyte Taine , Alexis de Tocqueville and Thomas Babbington Macaulay represent this type of historiography in Europe outside of Germany .

Even if there is a national historiography outside of Europe, a Eurocentrism is unmistakable here. The new history concepts transnational history or global history u. A. want to break the European centrism as well as the nationally fixed view of history in favor of a multinational view of history, which at the same time also takes account of the process of globalization .

literature

  • Christoph Conrad; Sebastian Conrad (Ed.): Writing the Nation. History in international comparison . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 978-3-525-36260-0 .
  • Caspar Hirschi : Art. National history , in: Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit , Vol. 8, Stuttgart, Sp. 1084-1087.
  • Niklas Lenhard-Schramm: Constructors of the Nation. History professors as political actors in Vormärz and Revolution 1848/49 . Münster / New York 2014.

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