Download or read book The Contested Nation written by S. Berger and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-10-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume asks which national histories underpinned which national identity constructions in almost every nation state in Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores the construction of national identities through history writing and analyses their interrelationship with histories of ethnicity/race, class and religion.