History as a project of the future: the European history textbook debate

2013 ◽  
pp. 169-190
Keyword(s):  
European History ◽  
History Textbook ◽  
The Future

Northern Light

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nils-Johan Jørgensen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
European History ◽  
Country Of Birth ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
Cultural Legacy ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Relationship

Here is a new, challenging appraisal of Norway, the author’s country of birth, that redefines its history, culture and heritage – ‘after Ibsen’ – and looks, with a degree of ominous foreboding, at its future and the future of Europe. Ex-diplomat and widely published author Jørgensen explores an array of topics, from Norway’s Viking past, its pursuit of independence, the German occupation, its politics and cultural heritage , the defence of NATO, the relationship with Europe, and the challenge of Russia, concluding with ‘self-image and reality’. In Northern Light, the author challenges many existing perceptions and stereotypes, making this an essential reference for anyone interested in Norway and its people, international affairs, European history and its cultural legacy.

After Nationalism? Urban History and East European History

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 774-778
Author(s):  
Chad Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Urban History ◽  
European History ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Final Part ◽  
East European ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
The City

Urban history in our field has taken many different forms in the past few decades. Many such works, no doubt, have drawn great inspiration from scholars outside our area specialization. Many, however, have looked within our area specialization for inspiration, thus giving urban histories of our region several peculiar characteristics. The first part of this article discusses how urban historians have provided new perspectives on a topic long dear to Eastern Europeanist hearts—nationalism. Here the article looks at the ways in which Gary Cohen’s Politics of Ethnic Survival has influenced how historians have studied nationalism and the city. The second part will briefly survey other forms of urban history that have predominated within the field, many of which recall the questions and approaches first found in Carl Schorske’s Fin-de-siècle Vienna. The final part concludes with some thoughts about what the rise of urban history among Eastern Europeanists might mean for the future our field.

scholarly journals European History and the Future of Legal Freedoms

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanel Kerikmäe
Keyword(s):  
European History ◽  
The Future

Ad Fontes Digitales!?

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-156
Author(s):  
Andreas Willershausen
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
German Language ◽  
Digital History ◽  
History Textbook ◽  
Digital Implementation ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
The Future ◽  
Historical Times ◽  
The Middle Ages

The publication of the first German-language digital history textbook, mBook: History for the Future (mBook: Geschichte für die Zukunft, Cornelsen Verlag, 2016), drew much critical attention. In 2018, the mBook was awarded the prize for best textbook in the “society” category by the Georg Eckert Institute for its focus on improving learner competence. This article begins by assessing the mBook’s gradation feature (which allows for the linguistic gradation of sophisticated textual sources on several learning levels) and the textbook authors’ aspiration to convey methodological competence and foster understanding of unfamiliar topics (Fremdverstehen), with the help of work on documents, and an understanding of historical times far removed from our own. It quantitatively and descriptively assesses textual documents in the chapters about the Middle Ages, while focusing on their textual preparation and digital implementation.

East European History: The “State of the Field”

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 759-762
Author(s):  
Norman Naimark ◽  
Timothy Snyder
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
European History ◽  
European Studies ◽  
East European ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Department ◽  
State Of The Field

What is east European about east European history, and what is historical about east European studies? Some twenty historians from the United States and Canada gathered at the History Department at Stanford to discuss the present, past, and, most importantly, the future of the east European field, broadly defined.

Habsburg Studies within Central European History: The State of the Field

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-55
Author(s):  
John Deak
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
European History ◽  
Habsburg Empire ◽  
Habsburg Monarchy ◽  
Central European ◽  
The Future ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
Joseph Ii ◽  
State Of The Field

Habsburg studies stand at a crossroads. We have come a long way since C. A. Macartney published his magisterial history, The Habsburg Empire, in 1968. He began his story with the death of Joseph II in 1790—and thus, for him and his narrative, with the beginning of the end of the monarchy. Macartney's narrative represented the best and most complete traditional story of decline and fall, according to which the ever-present push of modernity put the Habsburg Monarchy in the larger story of modern Europe as an entity doomed to dissolution. Moreover, its leaders, embodied in the clever Prince Clemens von Metternich, foresaw the decline of the empire and did their best to resist change and forestall the future.

Economic Conditions in Fourth-Century Athens

1991 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. French
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
European History ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Peloponnesian War ◽  
New Era ◽  
Economic Basis ◽  
The Future ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
As If

The flute players who in 404 B.C. celebrated the demolition of the Athenian walls with a hymn of joy for the liberation of Greece were thought to be hailing the dawn of a new era. It was an era in which Athens herself could participate, for even in defeat she had been spared the worst fate: her citizen population had not been butchered or enslaved; her land was not divided among alien colonists. Nevertheless the future which she faced was expected to be hard, in accordance with her humbled status. Her treasure was spent, her empire at an end; her losses in manpower had been terrible; the farming land which had traditionally been the economic basis of her existence, had been deliberately and extensively damaged. Thucydides in retrospect described the war as the most destructive in history: and Athens had ended as the loser. No wonder that historians have regarded the Peloponnesian War as a turning point of European history; and many have terminated their studies at this point, as if to divert their eyes from the tragic sight of Athens' decline into a new era of poverty and humiliation.

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