This volume asks which national histories underpinned which national identity constructions in almost every nation state in Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores the construction of national identities through history writing and analyses their interrelationship with histories of ethnicity/race, class and religion.

DAVID MOTA ÁLVAREZ PhD candidate, University of Salamanca, Spain. PPETER ARONSSON Professor in Cultural Heritage and the Uses of History, Linköping University, Sweden. STEFAN BERGER Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History, the University of Manchester, UK. MARNIX BEYEN Assistant Professor, University of Antwerp, Belgium. GITA DENECKERE Associate Professor of Modern History, Ghent University, Belgium. HUGO FREY Principal Lecturer and Head of History, the University of Chichester, UK. NARVE FULSÅS Professor of History, the University of Tromsø, Norway. PERTTI HAAPALA Professor of Finnish History, the University of Tampere, Finland. GERNOT HEISS Professor for Austrian History, the University of Vienna, Austria. MACIEJ JANOWSKI Visiting Associate Professor, the Central European Univeristy, Budapest, Hungary. BERNARD ERIC JENSEN Associate Professor of History and History Didactics, Aarhus University, Denmark. STEFAN JORDAN Research Fellow, the Historische Kommissionbei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany. JAMES KENNEDY Professor of Dutch History, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. ÁRPÁD V. KLIMÓ Research Fellow, the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, University of Potsdam, Germany. PAVEL KOLAR Research Fellow, the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, the University of Potsdam, Germany. DU AN KOVÁ? Professor and Vice-President of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia. JOEP LEERSSEN Professor of European Studies, the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. CHRIS LORENZ Professor of Philosophy of History, the Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. BENOÎT MAJERUS Research Assistant,the Fonds National de Recherche Scientifique, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. JITKA MALE?KOVÁ Program Officer, the Russell Sage Foundation, New York, USA. GUY P. MARCHAL Professor Emeritus, the University of Basel, Switzerland. SÉRGIO CAMPOS MATOS Professor of Contemporary History, the University of Lisbon, Portugal. HERCULES MILLAS Teacher, the University of Athens, Greece. KEITH ROBBINS Emeritus Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales Bangor, UK. KRIJN THIJS Postdoctoral Researcher, the Center of Language and Identity, the University of Leiden, the Netherlands. MARIUS TURDA Academic Fellow in 20th Century Central and Eastern European Bio-Medicine, Oxford Brookes University, UK. ANNA VERNOIKA WENDLAND Researcher, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Department of History, Munich, Germany. THOMAS WELSKOPP Professor for the History of Modern Societies, Bielefeld University, Germany. ULRICH WYRWA Aassociate Lecturer, the University of Potsdam, Germany.