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Marginalized groups, inequalities and the post-war welfare state : whose welfare?
\"With its focus on different marginalized groups: migrants and people with disabilities, this volume offers novel perspectives on the national and international dimensions of the post-war welfare state in Western Europe and North America\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Historians and nationalism : East-Central Europe in the nineteenth century
Peripheral cultures have been largely absent from the European canon of historiography. The principal aim of this book is to contribute to redressing the balance. It does so by offering an insight into the complexities of historical writing in nineteenth‐century East‐Central Europe and by ascertaining this tradition's place within the European historiographical heritage. At the core of the book lies a comparative analysis of the life‐work of five prominent scholars: Joachim Lelewel (Polish); Simonas Daukantas (Lithuanian); František Palacký (Czech); Mihály Horváth (Hungarian) and Mihail Kogălniceanu (Romanian). Rather than approaching these scholars' historical achievements from a narrow perspective, the book accommodates them in the context of their promotion of a unified vision of national culture. It discusses their accomplishments in the fields of language and literature, their pursuits in publishing journals and primary sources, and their contribution to the institutionalization and professionalization of the historical discipline.Through the reconstruction of these scholars' shared intellectual background and an in‐depth analysis of their historical narrative the author puts forward the claim that the five historians' professional and political agenda, influenced predominantly by liberalism and Romanticism, shared far more with their contemporaries elsewhere than has previously been assumed and thus renders them genuine representatives of a common European tradition.
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Of communism, compromise and Central Europe: The scholarly persona under authoritarianism
This chapter engages with the question how institutionalized repression influences the nature of historical scholarship and the historian’s persona. It does so by interrogating the work, life and self-fashioning of a leading Hungarian historian of the communist period, Péter Hanák (1921–97), whose achievements were significant in placing Hungarian history in a transnational perspective and studying it with the most up-to-date research methods. The chapter outlines Hanák’s main lines of research, including the intellectual heritage of fin-de-siècle Austria-Hungary, and shows how he instrumentalized that tradition for the forging of his persona. It also reveals how Hanák’s engagement with that tradition in a somewhat nostalgic fashion and in his role as a public intellectual served as a symbolic warning against the dangerous nature of increasing nationalistic overtones in the intellectual sphere during the late communist period. All in all, the chapter reveals that historiographical production in the former ‘Eastern bloc’ was not necessarily permeated with communist ideology, certainly not to the extent that this undermined professional quality.
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DISABILITY AND CIVIL COURAGE UNDER STATE SOCIALISM: THE SCANDAL OVER THE HUNGARIAN GUIDE-DOG SCHOOL
Baar focuses on the agency of disabled people under state socialism and seeks to accommodate their experiences within the broader context of Cold-War Europe. By analyzing the grass-roots activities of Hungarian blind people, she seeks to add new and comparative dimensions to existing literature. In revealing the strategies pursued by members of a grass-roots initiative to mobilize support among the general public in a country that lacked a genuine civil society, she reflects on the relevance of concepts of welfare dictatorship and Eigen-Sinn and concludes by arguing for a broadening of the concept of civil society under state-socialist dictatorships and for a more nuanced perception of its relationship with the state.
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Institutionalization and Professionalization
Chapter 3, ‘Institutionalization and Professionalization’, examines the institutional setting of the five scholars' activities and investigates their role in the professionalization and institutionalization of the discipline. It explores the role of patriotic and scholarly societies in the organization of national culture and the historians' contribution to those activities. This is followed by the study of the universities' limited role in the promotion of historical studies in the region. Thereafter, the historians' contribution to the creation of periodicals and source collections is discussed and the claim is put forward that such ventures were instrumental in the formation of a unified national culture and language. Finally, examples of censorial intervention in their work are analysed, alongside the strategies which they devised in order to alleviate the impact of censorship.
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Intellectual Background
Chapter 4, ‘Intellectual Background’, attempts to reconstruct the intellectual background which informed the historians' mindset and argues that the vantage point of such study must be their own national traditions. Relying on the methodology of intellectual transfer it looks at the influence of the Enlightenment in its national variations, as well as the impact of Romanticism on their work. Within the analysis of foreign intellectual influences, special attention is given to the Göttingen school and in broader terms to the Spätaufklärung. Herder's influence is also investigated and the conclusion is reached that his impact was not as crucial as one would expect. Further, the chapter assesses the inspiration which the Scottish Enlightenment provided for the historians and explores in what ways and to what extent they were indebted to the French liberal school and the writings of the Russian historian Nikolai Karamzin.
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