Conflicted Memories: Europeanizing Contemporary Histories
Konrad H. Jarausch · Thomas Lindenberger
May 2007 · Studies in Contemporary European History Book 3 · Berghahn Books
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Despite the growing interest in general European history, the European dimension is surprisingly absent from the writing of contemporary history. In most countries, the historiography on the 20th century continues to be dominated by national perspectives. Although there is cross-national work on specific topics such as occupation or resistance, transnational conceptions and narratives of contemporary European history have yet to be worked out. This volume focuses on the development of a shared conception of recent European history that will be required as an underpinning for further economic and political integration so as to make lasting cooperation on the old continent possible. It tries to overcome the traditional national framing that ironically persists just at a time when organized efforts to transform Europe from an object of debate to an actual subject have some chance of succeeding in making it into a polity in its own right.
About the author
Thomas Lindenberger is project leader at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam and teaches at Potsdam University. His current research interests center on questions of mass media in the Cold War as well as on issues of historical methodology and theory. His publications include Öffentliche Polizei im Staatssozialismus: Volkspolizei, SED-Staat und Herrschaftspraxis, 1952-1968 (Köln et al. 2003); and the edited volumes Herrschaft und Eigen-Sinn in der Diktatur: Studien zur Gesellschaftsgeschichte der DDR (Köln 1999) and Massenmedien im Kalten Krieg: Akteure, Bilder, Resonanzen (Cologne, 2006).
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