Type bookSection Authors Stefan Berger (editor) Chris Lorenz (editor) Stefan Berger Chris Lorenz Book title Nationalizing the past : historians as nation builders in modern Europe Place New York Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Language English ISBN 9780230237926 0230237924 Keywords (post)modernity 1 theory and philosophy of historiography nationalism/nation building schools/paradigms Abstract This volume compares how national historians in Europe have handled the opposing pulls of fact and fiction and shows which narrative strategies have contributed to the success of national histories.