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National History (national + history)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Humanities and Social Sciences	90%

Distribution within Humanities and Social Sciences

General & Introductory Political Science	44%
General Literature	22%

Selected Abstracts

Asylum,Seekers and National Histories of Detention

AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, Issue 4 2002
Alison Bashford
The Australian system of mandatory detention of asylum,seekers has become increasingly controversial. Insofar as commentary on detention has been framed historically, critics have pointed to Australia's race,based exclusionary laws and policies over the twentieth century. In this article, we suggest that exclusion and detention are not equivalent practices, even if they are often related. Here we present an alternative genealogy of mandatory detention and protests against it. Quarantine,detention and the internment of "enemy aliens" in wartime are historic precedents for the current detention of asylum,seekers. Importantly, in both carceral practices, non,criminal and often non,citizen populations were held in custody en masse and without trial. Quarantine, internment and incarceration of asylum,seekers are substantively connected over the twentieth century, as questions of territory, security and citizenship have been played out in Australia's histories of detention. [source]

National History and the World of Nations.

NATIONS AND NATIONALISM, Issue 3 2010
Capital, France, State, the Rhetoric of History in Japan, the United States by Christopher L. Hill
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Family History as National History: Peter Henisch's Novel Die kleine Figur meines Vaters and the Issue of Memory in Austria's Second Republic

ORBIS LITERARUM, Issue 2 2004
Anthony Bushell
This article examines an early but key text in Austria's belated examination of its citizens' role in the Third Reich. It shows how Peter Henisch's novel exposed unresolved generational conflicts within a prosperous and stable post-war Austrian society and how the text provided an example of the discussion of uncomfortable societal issues in post-war Austria through the intimate sphere of family life. Simultaneously, the book reflected upon the limitations and distortions inherent in all creative works of art, distortions that Henisch shows are present in the very process of remembering. Crucially, the work continues to invite the reader to associate the integrity of national memory with the integrity of private memory. [source]

National History, Non-national Archaeology: The Case of Denmark

OXFORD JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY, Issue 2 2000
Klavs Randsborg
The early development of Danish archaeology (including the centuries before AD 1800) is discussed in terms of its relationship with national history, and with various ideas about regional phenomena and concepts of cultural identity. Danish archaeologists followed a dual strategy, by subscribing both to national sentiment, but also to the ,un-national' notion of close culture-historical links between regions. Confusion of text-based historical aims, and those of archaeology, caused problems. The main strengths of archaeology , its unique material perspective and concepts, historical, spatial, and contextual (including social and mental dimensions) , are stressed. [source]

Historical Figuration: Poetics, Historiography, and New Genre Studies1

LITERATURE COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 5 2006
W. Scott Howard
This essay has four interconnected goals: 1) to reflect upon some of the major theoretical and methodological developments (since about 1950) in the fields of early modern literary studies and history vis-à-vis the question of historicism; 2) to address, within the context of seventeenth-century England, inter-relationships between poetics and historiography; 3) to examine that "interdisciplinarity" specifically in terms of the seventeenth-century English poetic elegy; and 4) to trace (from Plato to Puttenham) and to argue for a specific theoretical aspect of that inter-relationship, which I will call historical figuration. My argument will hinge upon these connecting points, especially the latter two. On the one hand, I will argue that an early modern paradigm shift from theocentric to increasingly secular narrative frameworks for personal and national histories contributes to a transformation in poetic genre. English poets began to formulate a new intra-textual crisis of linguistic signification within the elegy's construction of loss and spiritual consolation as the experience of death and mourning became less theocentric and communal and more secular and individualized during the seventeenth century. This new intra-textuality to elegiac resistance emerges gradually but consistently from approximately the 1620s onward, facilitating the genre's new articulations of consolation situated within and against historical contexts rather than projected toward a transcendental horizon. On the other hand, I will also argue that this distinctive inter-relationship between poetics and historiography may be theorized as historical figuration, which may be linked directly to key contributions to the history of poetic theory from Plato to Puttenham. My two-fold thesis thus attempts to engender and engage what some may see as a trans-discursive poetics of culture. However, I would hesitate to place my argument within the new-historicist camp, but would hope instead that this essay may contribute to the emerging, interdisciplinary sub-field of new genre studies, which seeks to examine literary genres as manifestations of aesthetic forms and social discourses. [source]

Euroscepticism and History Education in Britain

GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION, Issue 1 2006
Oliver J. Daddow
This article examines the role played by national history in generating and sustaining the popularity of British Eurosceptic arguments. The core argument advanced is that the modernist approach to history prevalent among British historians and the society in which they work has to be considered the key reason for Euroscepticism retaining such a popular appeal in Britain. The overly reverential attitude to recent martial history on the part of the British, and an almost total neglect of the peacetime dimensions of modern European history since 1945, both serve to exaggerate the tendency in the country to fall back on glib images of Britain as a great power with a ,special relationship' across the Atlantic and Europe as a hostile ,other' to be confronted rather than engaged with constructively. [source]

Countering the hegemony of the Irish national canon: the modernist rhetoric of Seán O'Faoláin (1938,50)1

NATIONS AND NATIONALISM, Issue 3 2009
MARK MCNALLY
ABSTRACT. The telling and re-telling of national history has long been recognised in studies of nationalism as one of its key legitimising and mobilising strategies. In this article I illustrate how a rhetorical approach can effectively explore this dynamic and emotive dimension of nationalist ideology by examining the rhetorical strategies in the Irish liberal intellectual, Seán O'Faoláin's, attempts to reconstitute the popular canon of Irish history in the 1930s and 1940s. More specifically, I show that contrary to depictions of O'Faoláin as a European liberal who employed rational argument to undermine and encourage the rejection of Irish nationalism and its emphasis on rhetorical narratives of the past, O'Faoláin's challenge to the Irish national canon reveals that he himself mobilised historical narrative to promote his own modernist version of Irish liberal nationalism and demonstrated in the process that he was one of the most skilful rhetors of his day. [source]

National subjects: September 11 and Pearl Harbor

AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 3 2004
Geoffrey M. White
ABSTRACT Despite a long tradition of writing on collective representations of the past, anthropology has contributed relatively little to the expanding literature on national memory. Yet ethnographic approaches have the facility to delineate practices that create historical narrative and give it emotive power while keeping in view longer-term political forces that underwrite dominant imaginaries. In this article I inquire into the discursive origins of emotional involvement in national history by juxtaposing two events of spectacular violence, September 11 and Pearl Harbor. Focusing on the representation of these events in public culture and at memorial sites, I argue that personal narratives play a central role in formations of national subjectivity, at times emotionalizing dominant memories and at other times opening possibilities for alternative visions. [source]

National History, Non-national Archaeology: The Case of Denmark

Memory in the Construction of Constitutions

RATIO JURIS, Issue 4 2002
Michael Schäfer
In connection with the contemporary debates in political philosophy between liberal, republican and proceduralist,deliberative views of democratic politics, I deal with the question of how the different concepts in these debates can be related to the particular national history, memories and expectations of a polity. I shall concentrate on one German example of the relationship between constitutionalism and democracy, in order to show that political philosophy must pay more attention to the different shared practices and understandings within each liberal society. [source]