Stefan Berger

Covering the whole of Western Europe, the contributors to this study consider the ways in which individuals and groups have written history to legitimise the nation-state, whether fascist, socialist, communist or plain religious in the modern era.

The Historikerstreit of the 1980s has ended inconclusively amidst heated debates on the nature and course of German national history. The author follows the debates beyond the unexpected reunification of the country in 1989/90 and analyses the most recent trends in German historiography. Reunification, he observes, has brought in its wake efforts on the extreme Right to re-establish a nationalist historiography. Even among the liberal-conservative mainstream of German historiography, an urgent search for the "normality" of the nation-state has begun. Nor have the critical historians been unaffected by this. As a result, so the author fears, the contested definition of national identity might strengthen, in his eyes, the unwelcome predominance of the national perspective in historical research.

Moving the Social: Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements is an international, peer-reviewed journal rooted in the discipline of history, but with an explicit interest in work on social issues and social movements from other disciplines, particularly the social sciences, geography, anthropology and ethnology. It is particularly interested in promoting transnational and comparative perspectives on the history of social movements within a broader context of social history. The journal is currently published three times a year, with issues either on a specific theme or as a thematically mixed issue. Most issues also include a comprehensive review article, at least one of which each year covers the most recent publications in the field of social movement studies. (Source: [moving-the-social.ub.rub.de](

"Popularizing National Pasts is the first truly cross-national and comparative study of national histories, their representations, the meanings given to them and their uses, which expands outside the confines of Western Europe and the US. It draws a picture of popular histories which is European in the full sense of this term. One of its fortes is the inclusion of Eastern Europe. The cross-national angle of Popularizing National Pasts is apparent in the scope of its comparative project, as well as that of the longue duree it covers. Apart from essays on Britain, France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, the collection includes studies of popular histories in Scandinavia, Eastern and Southern Europe, notably Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Armenia, Russia and the Ukraine, as well as considering the US and Argentina. Cross-national comparison is also a central concern of the thirteen case studies in the volume, which are, each, devoted to comparing between two, or more, national historical cultures. Thus temporality--both continuities and breaks--in popular notions of the past, its interpretations and consumption, is examined in the long continuum. The volume makes available to English readers, probably for the first time, the cutting edge of Eastern European scholarship on popular histories, nationalism and culture. "--

Moving the Social: Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements is an international, peer-reviewed journal rooted in the discipline of history, but with an explicit interest in work on social issues and social movements from other disciplines, particularly the social sciences, geography, anthropology and ethnology. It is particularly interested in promoting transnational and comparative perspectives on the history of social movements within a broader context of social history. The journal is currently published three times a year, with issues either on a specific theme or as a thematically mixed issue. Most issues also include a comprehensive review article, at least one of which each year covers the most recent publications in the field of social movement studies. (Source: [moving-the-social.ub.rub.de](

How objective are our history books? This addition to the Writing History series examines the critical role that memory plays in the writing of history. The volume includes essays from an international team of historians, bringing together analysis of forms of public history such as museums, exhibitions, memorials and speeches; coverage of the ancient world to the present, on topics such as oral history and generational and collective memory; and two key case studies on Holocaust memorialization and the memory of Communism.--From Amazon.com.

"During the Cold War, Britain had an astonishing number of contacts and connections with one of the Soviet Bloc's most hard-line regimes: the German Democratic Republic. The left wing of the British Labour Party and the Trade Unions often had closer ties with communist East Germany than the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). There were strong connections between the East German and British churches, women's movements, and peace movements; influential conservative politicians and the Communist leadership in the GDR had working relationships; and lucrative contracts existed between business leaders in Britain and their counterparts in East Germany. Based on their extensive knowledge of the documentary sources, the authors provide the first comprehensive study of Anglo-East German relations in this surprisingly under-researched field. They examine the complex motivations underlying different political groups' engagement with the GDR, and offer new and interesting insights into British political culture during the Cold War."--BOOK JACKET.

Moving the Social: Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements is an international, peer-reviewed journal rooted in the discipline of history, but with an explicit interest in work on social issues and social movements from other disciplines, particularly the social sciences, geography, anthropology and ethnology. It is particularly interested in promoting transnational and comparative perspectives on the history of social movements within a broader context of social history. The journal is currently published three times a year, with issues either on a specific theme or as a thematically mixed issue. Most issues also include a comprehensive review article, at least one of which each year covers the most recent publications in the field of social movement studies. (Source: [moving-the-social.ub.rub.de](

Moving the Social: Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements is an international, peer-reviewed journal rooted in the discipline of history, but with an explicit interest in work on social issues and social movements from other disciplines, particularly the social sciences, geography, anthropology and ethnology. It is particularly interested in promoting transnational and comparative perspectives on the history of social movements within a broader context of social history. The journal is currently published three times a year, with issues either on a specific theme or as a thematically mixed issue. Most issues also include a comprehensive review article, at least one of which each year covers the most recent publications in the field of social movement studies. (Source: [moving-the-social.ub.rub.de](

This is a pioneering comparative study of the early years of the British Labour Party and the German Social Democratic Party. Stefan Berger examines the history of both parties over thirty years, focusing on their organization, their integration into state and society, their ideology, their cultural and recreational activities, and their relationship with each other. Dr Berger argues that the traditional view of deep-seated cultural and ideological differences between British and European Labour movements is in need of substantial revision. Based on a wealth of primary material from both British and German archives, the book's controversial conclusions will open up new perspectives on old debates.

Moving the Social: Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements is an international, peer-reviewed journal rooted in the discipline of history, but with an explicit interest in work on social issues and social movements from other disciplines, particularly the social sciences, geography, anthropology and ethnology. It is particularly interested in promoting transnational and comparative perspectives on the history of social movements within a broader context of social history. The journal is currently published three times a year, with issues either on a specific theme or as a thematically mixed issue. Most issues also include a comprehensive review article, at least one of which each year covers the most recent publications in the field of social movement studies. (Source: [moving-the-social.ub.rub.de](

Moving the Social: Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements is an international, peer-reviewed journal rooted in the discipline of history, but with an explicit interest in work on social issues and social movements from other disciplines, particularly the social sciences, geography, anthropology and ethnology. It is particularly interested in promoting transnational and comparative perspectives on the history of social movements within a broader context of social history. The journal is currently published three times a year, with issues either on a specific theme or as a thematically mixed issue. Most issues also include a comprehensive review article, at least one of which each year covers the most recent publications in the field of social movement studies. (Source: [moving-the-social.ub.rub.de](

Moving the Social: Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements is an international, peer-reviewed journal rooted in the discipline of history, but with an explicit interest in work on social issues and social movements from other disciplines, particularly the social sciences, geography, anthropology and ethnology. It is particularly interested in promoting transnational and comparative perspectives on the history of social movements within a broader context of social history. The journal is currently published three times a year, with issues either on a specific theme or as a thematically mixed issue. Most issues also include a comprehensive review article, at least one of which each year covers the most recent publications in the field of social movement studies. (Source: [moving-the-social.ub.rub.de](

Moving the Social: Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements is an international, peer-reviewed journal rooted in the discipline of history, but with an explicit interest in work on social issues and social movements from other disciplines, particularly the social sciences, geography, anthropology and ethnology. It is particularly interested in promoting transnational and comparative perspectives on the history of social movements within a broader context of social history. The journal is currently published three times a year, with issues either on a specific theme or as a thematically mixed issue. Most issues also include a comprehensive review article, at least one of which each year covers the most recent publications in the field of social movement studies. (Source: [moving-the-social.ub.rub.de](