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Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland en Vlaanderen: over de (on)mogelijkheid van een open, globale en niet-nationalistische geschiedenis voor een breed publiek
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Abstract
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| World history of the Netherlands and Flanders: about the (im)possibility of an open, global and non-nationalist history for a wider audience In the wake of the success of the Histoire mondiale de la France, 2018 saw the publication of the World history of the Netherlands and World history of Flanders. After the French example both volumes have three goals: bringing history to a wider audience; giving a global reading to the national past; and offering a non-nationalist and non-teleological perspective. Eminently readable, both books succeed in their first goal. The second ambition is fulfilled by the World history of the Netherlands, but in the World history of Flanders the global dimension is underdeveloped. The verdict on the third promise is double-edged. Both volumes do indeed tell an explicit story of being open-ended and refute traditional nationalist tropes, but several Dutch and - to a lesser extent - Flemish chapters contain a parallel subtext of banal nationalism. The genre of public history seems to be particularly susceptible to this type of teleology. |
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Language
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Dutch
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Source (journal)
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Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis. - Amersfoort, 1886, currens
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Publication
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Amersfoort
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A.M. Slothouwer
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2020
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ISSN
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0040-7518
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2352-1163
[online]
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DOI
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10.5117/TVGESCH2020.1.006.VANG
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Volume/pages
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133
:1
(2020)
, p. 89-103
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ISI
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000540666400007
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