Conflicted Memories : : Europeanizing Contemporary Histories / / ed. by Konrad H. Jarausch, Thomas Lindenberger.

• MitwirkendeR: Appelqvist, Örjan,; Berger, Stefan,; Caşu, Igor,; Geyer, Michael,; Horne, John,; Jarausch, Konrad H.,; Kaelble, Hartmut,; Lagrou, Pieter,; Lindenberger, Thomas,; Mergel, Thomas,; Patel, Kiran Klaus,; Petrescu, Dragoş,; Rieber, Alfred,; Rousso, Henry,; Schönwälder, Karen,; Siefert, Marsha,; Steiner, André,
• HerausgeberIn: Jarausch, Konrad H.,; Lindenberger, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary European History ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

Despite the growing interest in general European history, the European dimension is surprisingly absent from the writing of contemporary history. In most countries, the historiography on the 20th century continues to be dominated by national perspectives. Although there is cross-national work on specific topics such as occupation or resistance, transnational conceptions and narratives of contemporary European history have yet to be worked out. This volume focuses on the development of a shared conception of recent European history that will be required as an underpinning for further economic and political integration so as to make lasting cooperation on the old continent possible. It tries to overcome the traditional national framing that ironically persists just at a time when organized efforts to transform Europe from an object of debate to an actual subject have some chance of succeeding in making it into a polity in its own right.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF ACRONYMNS -- Introduction CONTOURS OF A CRITICAL HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPE: A TRANSNATIONAL AGENDA -- Part 1 CONTESTED MEMORIES -- Chapter 1 HISTORY OF MEMORY, POLICIES OF THE PAST: WHAT FOR? -- Chapter 2 COMMUNIST LEGACIES IN THE ‘NEW EUROPE’: HISTORY, ETHNICITY, AND THE CREATION OF A ‘SOCIALIST’ NATION IN ROMANIA, 1945–1989 -- Chapter 3 WRITING NATIONAL HISTORIES IN EUROPE: REFLECTIONS ON THE PASTS, PRESENTS, AND FUTURES OF A TRADITION -- Chapter 4 BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE NATION: THE INWARD TURN OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORICAL WRITING -- Part 2 MULTIPLE CONFLICTS -- Chapter 5 WAR AND CONFLICT IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN HISTORY, 1914–2004 -- Chapter 6 IN SEARCH OF A TRANSNATIONAL HISTORICIZATION: NATIONAL SOCIALISM AND ITS PLACE IN HISTORY -- Chapter 7 THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR IN EURASIA: A BORDERLAND PERSPECTIVE -- Part 3 TRANSNATIONAL INTERACTIONS -- Chapter 8 EUROPE AS LEISURE TIME COMMUNICATION: TOURISM AND TRANSNATIONAL INTERACTION SINCE 1945 -- Chapter 9 INTEGRATION FROM BELOW? MIGRATION AND EUROPEAN CONTEMPORARY HISTORY -- Chapter 10 TWENTIETH-CENTURY CULTURE, ‘AMERICANIZATION,’ AND EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL SPACE -- Chapter 11 ECONOMICS OF WESTERN EUROPEAN INTEGRATION? PROVING THE BENEFITS, 1952–1973 -- Part 4 UNFINISHED POLITICAL PROCESSES -- Chapter 12 A EUROPEAN CIVIL SOCIETY? -- Chapter 13 INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST ATTEMPTS AT BRIDGE-BUILDING IN THE EARLY POSTWAR PERIOD -- Chapter 14 NATION BUILDING IN THE ERA OF INTEGRATION: THE CASE OF MOLDOVA -- Postscript THE SUBJECT(S) OF EUROPE -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTORS