Reframing the European Pasts

[Ivo Romein]

A special issue of <EAST CENTRAL EUROPE> is published this week:

ECEU, volume 36, issue 1, May 2009

REFRAMING THE EUROPEAN PASTS: National Discourses and Regional Comparisons

Guest editors: Dietmar Müller, Borbála Zsuzsanna Török & Balázs Trencsényi




Table of Contents

Dietmar Müller, Borbála Zsuzsanna Török, Balázs Trencsényi
Reframing the European Pasts: National discourses and regional comparisons

Jürgen Kocka
Comparative history: Methodology and ethos

Arnd Bauerkämper
Europe as social practice: Towards an interactive approach to modern European history

László Kontler
Translation and comparison – translation as comparison: Aspects of reception in the history of ideas

Helke Rausch
Staging realms of the past in 19th century Western Europe: Comparing monumental strategies of middle-class nationalists 

Borbála Zsuzsanna Török
Learned societies and academic sociability in nineteenth-century Transylvania

Dietmar Müller
Orientalism and Nation: Jews and Muslims as alterity in Southeastern Europe in the age of nation-states, 1878–1941

Balázs Trencsényi
 “Imposed Authenticity”: Approaching Eastern European national characterologies

Markian Prokopovych
Lemberg (Lwów, Ľviv) Architecture, 1772–1918: If not the Little Vienna of the East, or the National Bastion, what else? 

Maciej Górny
 “Dialectical negation”: East Central European Marxist historiography and the problem of the nation

Thomas Mergel
Americanization, European style or national codes? The culture of election campaigning in Europe 1945-1990 

Debate

On Rogers Brubaker, Margit Feischmidt , Jon Fox, and Liana Grancea, Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006).

Florin Poenaru and Gergő Pulay
Why ethnicity? Everyday nationalism in a Transylvanian town

Anders Blomqvist
Competing historical narratives

Antonela Capelle-Pogăcean 
L’ethnicité au quotidien: présences et intermittences

Reply by Rogers Brubaker

Review Essay
John Connelly 
 “Memorial Day's A Reason to Buy a Beach Bag”: Reflections from the USA on István Rév's Retroactive Justice

Reviews

József Takáts, Modern magyar politikai eszmetörténet (Budapest: Osiris Kiadó, 2007) by Ferenc Laczó.

Elizabeth Clegg, Art, Design & Architecture in Central Europe 1890-1920 (New Haven, London: Yale University Press, 2006) by Ádám Mestyán.

Howard N. Lupovitch, Jews at the Crossroads. Tradition and Accommodation in the Golden Age of the Hungarian Nobility, 1729-1878 (Budapest: CEU Press, 2007) by Máté Rigó.

Ruxandra Cesereanu (ed.) Comunism şi represiune în România. Istoria tematică a unui fraticid naţional (Iaşi: Polirom, 2006) by Bogdan Cristian Iacob.

Gábor Tabajdi and Krisztián Ungváry, Elhallgatott múlt. A pártállam és a belügy. A politikai rendőrség működése Magyarországon, 1956–1990 (Budapest: Corvina – 1956-os Intézet, 2008) by Tamás Scheibner.

János M. Rainer, Jelentések hálójában. Antall József és az állambiztonság emberei, 1957-1989 (Budapest: 1956-os Intézet, 2008) by Ferenc Laczó.

Agnieszka Golczyńska-Grondas, Mężczyźni z enklaw biedy: rekonstrukcja pełnionych ról społecznych (Łódź: Przedsiębiorstwo Specjalistyczne Absolwent, 2004) by Kacper Pobłocki.

Geneviève Zubrzycki, The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006) by Zsuzsánna Magdó.

List of Contributors



See:  www.brill.nl/eceu


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