Disputed territories and shared pasts: overlapping national histories in modern Europe

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List of Maps, Illustrations and Figures Acknowledgments Notes on the Contributors Nations, Borders and the Historical Profession: On the Complexity of Historiographical Overlaps in Europe T.Frank & F.Hadler PART I: OVERLAPS ALONGSIDE STATE BORDERS The Overlapping Histories of Sweden and Norway: The Union from 1814 to 1905 R.Bjork Conflicting Sovereignties: The Habsburg Monarchy in Hungarian Historiography T.Frank Supranationality and National Overlaps: The Habsburg Monarchy in Austrian Historiography after 1918 W.Suppanz German East or Polish West? Historiographical Discourses on the German-Polish Overlap between Confrontation and Reconciliation, 1772-2000 J.Hackmann National History and Imperial History: A Look at Polish-Russian Historiographical Disputes on the Borderlands in the 19th and 20th Centuries R.Stobiecki The Great Netherlands Controversy: A Clash of Great Historians N.van Sas Main Dilemmas in Israeli Historiography J.Barnai PART II: OVERLAPS IN HISTORICAL REGIONS BETWEEN STATES The Origins of the Eastern Border as the Grand Controversy of Finnish National History Writing I.Liikanen Schleswig and Holstein in Danish and German Historiography U.Ostergard The Trophy of Titans: Alsace-Lorraine between France and Germany, 1870-1945 C.Fischer The Legacy of Transylvania in Romanian and Hungarian Historiography A.Ludanyi PART III: OVERLAPS OF ETHNIC, NATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS GROUPS WITHIN STATES Arrested Development: Competing Histories and the Formation of the Irish Historical Profession, 1801-1938 C.Brady The Czechs, Germans and Sudetenland: Historiographical Dispute in the 'Heart of Europe' M.?epa The Iberian Peninsula: Real and Imagined Overlaps X.-M.Nunez Overlapping National Historiographies in Bosnia-Herzegovina R.Okey Eretz Israel - Filastin - The Holy Land: Main Dilemmas in Israeli Historiography J. Barnai Select Bibliographies Index