Disputed Territories and Shared Pasts Overlapping National Histories in Modern Europe

A collection of essays on European historiography, focussing on the overlapping national histories in Europe presenting many of the contested areas through conflicting historiographies. Sponsored by the European Science Foundation, this unique volume is part ofWriting the Nation, a major international project.

Tibor Frank is Professor of History and Director of the School of English and American Studies at Etvs Lornd University in Budapest, Hungary. He has published widely on transatlantic relations, international migrations, imagology, and historiography. His most recent monograph is Double Exile: Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals through Germany to the United States, 1919-1945 (2009). Frank Hadler is Research Coordinator and Project Director of the Geisteswissenschafliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmittel-europas (GWZO) at Leipzig University, Germany. His publications on the history and culture of East Central Europe and the history of historiography include, most recently, Lost Greatness and Past Oppression in East Central Europe: Representations of Imperial Experience in Historiography since 1918 (2007).