Patriotic History and the (Re)Nationalization of Memory

This book charts and traces state-mandated or state-encouraged ＂patriotic＂ histories that have recently emerged in many places around the globe. This volume collects fifteen caste studies of such ＂nationalizations of history＂ ranging from China to the Baltic states.

Kornelia Kończal is Assistant Professor of Public History at Bielefeld University, Germany. She is the author and editor of many publications on European history and memory. Currently, she is preparing a book on the reconstruction of the post-German territories in East Central Europe after 1945.

A. Dirk Moses is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations at the City College of New York, and senior editor of the Journal of Genocide Research. His most recent book is The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression (2021).