A sustained and systematic study of the construction, erosion and
reconstruction of national histories across a wide variety of states is
highly topical and extremely relevant in the context of the accelerating
processes of Europeanization and globalization. However, as demonstrated
in this volume, histories have not, of course, only been written by
professional historians. Drawing on studies from a number of different
European nation states, the contributors to this volume present a
systematic exploration, of the representation of the national paradigm.
In doing so, they contextualize the European experience in a more global
framework by providing comparative perspectives on the national
histories in the Far East and North America. As such, they expose the
complex variables and diverse actors that lie behind the narration of a
nation.