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  • How Should National History Be Written
    International Studies Review, 2010
    Co-Authors: Anthony Oberschall
    Abstract:

    National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States. By Christopher Hill. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. 352 pp., $24.95 paperback (ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-4316-5). Christopher Hill, associate professor of Japanese literature at Yale, analyzes the rhetoric, narrative form and intellectual origins of late nineteenth-century narrative histories, fiction and essays that shaped the creation of National History in Japan, France and the United States. Controversies about History loomed large in debates about contemporary political and social issues. In chapter 1, Hill argues that the writing of National History was a response to global changes in the geo-political order that were shaping capitalism and the interNational state system and that interacted with domestic crises and upheavals: in Japan, the Meiji restoration; in France, defeat in the war with Prussia, the end of the Second Empire, and the bloody suppression of the Paris commune in 1871; in the United States, post-Civil War National accommodation and demographic and geographic expansion beyond the eastern seaboard and English core. The choice of these three states is because “a triangular comparison resists the reductive, binary conclusions that are likely to develop when investigating phenomena like Nationalism…” (p. x). These changes and crises forced new attention to the relationship between state and nation in all three countries. Local circumstances alone do not explain why National History writing appeared in many countries at this time and emphasized development stages with a clear-cut structure of past, present and future. The ubiquity of National History is a consequence of the “heterogeneous structure of a single, global modernity that was established as the capitalist market …

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