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| List of Tables and Figures | |
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| Notes on Contributors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Institutions, Networks and Communities in a European Perspective | |
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| An age of history | |
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| Productive history | |
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| Professional history | |
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| Continuity and discontinuity | |
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| Historiographical generations | |
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| A broader scope | |
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| 'Something More than a Storage Warehouse': The Creation of National Archives | |
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| Movement | |
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| Centralisation | |
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| Publicity | |
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| Towards history | |
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| Professionalisation | |
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| Autonomy and bricks | |
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| In history | |
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| Monumental Undertakings: Source Publications for the Nation | |
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| New impulses | |
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| Great enterprises | |
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| Doing national history by editing | |
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| Media, techniques and infrastructures | |
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| Diversification and consolidation | |
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| Scholarly Communication with a Political Impetus: National Historical Journals | |
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| In a professional context | |
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| In a political context | |
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| Epilogue: After the Second World War | |
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| The Dictionary Is Dead, Long Live the Dictionary! Biographical Collections in National Contexts | |
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| 'Signification de ces mots: Biographie Nationale' | |
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| A golden age | |
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| Workshops | |
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| The dictionary is still alive | |
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| Exegi Monumentum: The Great Syntheses of National History | |
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| The Romantic generation | |
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| The high point: Around 1900 | |
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| For science and one's country | |
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| Many readers | |
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| Prestigious ventures | |
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| A long history | |
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| Nations on Display: History Museums in Europe | |
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| French prologue: A house for the nation's history | |
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| 'Zooming out' | |
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| At the origin: The nation | |
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| Associations: From regions to empires | |
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| An earlier home for history: From Berlin to Bonn and back | |
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| Towards the nation once more | |
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| In the Provinces: Local and Regional Learned Societies | |
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| An intellectual elite | |
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| The rise of national history | |
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| Genuine diversity | |
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| Wishful Thinking: Academic Competitions in National History | |
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| The spirit of the age | |
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| Language, unity and distinctiveness | |
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| A plurality of histories | |
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| Educating the nation, disseminating the results | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| 'A Daily Working Group Together in One House': Research Institutes at the National Academies of Sciences in East Central Europe | |
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| Background and precursors | |
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| Initial environment and first directors | |
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| Structure, priorities and large-scale projects | |
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| The position of the institutes at home | |
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| In the 'ecumenical community of historians' | |
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| Deep structural similarities? | |
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| Serving the Profession: National Associations of Historians | |
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| The German Historikerverband: An example | |
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| Tasks and means | |
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| Types of development: Active versus inactive national associations | |
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| Types of development: Professionalisation | |
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| Places of Innovation and Exchange: The Extra-University Institutions for Historical Research | |
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| Scientific innovation, crucial topics | |
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| An institutional 'stopgap' | |
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| Different careers? | |
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| An active state | |
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| By way of conclusion | |
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| Militancy and Pluralism: Party and Church Institutes of Contemporary History in Western Europe since 1945 | |
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| History and engagement | |
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| Pioneering institutions | |
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| The legacy of the Second World War | |
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| La via italiana | |
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| France: politique d'abord | |
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| The Federal Republic of Germany: The university ties | |
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| A national pluralism in Belgium | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Wider Connections: International Networks among European Historians | |
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| The primacy of the national | |
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| Towards internationalisation | |
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| The International Historical Congresses | |
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| The International Committee of Historical Sciences: Its organisations and committees | |
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| The proliferation of sub-disciplines | |
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| International history institutes | |
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| History regions | |
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| The role of languages | |
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| The American connection | |
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| A New Community of Scholars: The University Professors at Work | |
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| The professor's home | |
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| The organisation of the 'profession' | |
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| Method and ethos | |
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| Provisional conclusion: A long decline? | |
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| A Truculent Revenge: The Clergy and the Writing of National History | |
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| The presence of the clergy | |
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| Reactive activism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bulwark of Traditions: The European Nobility and Regional and National Historiography in the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Enthusiasts of antiquarian societies, academies and historical commissions | |
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| Collectors and managers of academic projects | |
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| Archivists and librarians | |
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| Authors of regional and national histories | |
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| Masters in the field of heraldry | |
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| The good and exemplary noble lord | |
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| Popular Writers: Women Historians, the Academic Community and National History Writing | |
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| A tiny minority | |
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| An unacknowledged contribution | |
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| Writers of popular history | |
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| Missing academic support | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Striving for Visibility: Nationalists in Multinational Empires and States | |
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| Two 'non-historical' nations: Slovenes and Slovaks | |
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| Counterweights to an elephant: Scotland and Wales | |
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| Repression and interdiction before the new blooming season: Catalonia | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Living in the Past: Historians in Exile | |
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| The writer: Poles in the nineteenth century | |
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| The Professor: Germans in the inter-war period | |
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| The Institute: Eastern Europeans in the Cold War | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Historians and the Web | |
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| Uncertainty, loss of prestige and a changing public role | |
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| The digital turn | |
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| Index | |