Nationalization of history

Nationalization of history is a term used in historiography to describe the process of separation of "one's own" history from the common universal history, by way of perceiving, understanding and treating the past that results with construction of history as history of a nation. if national labeling of the past is non treated with great care, it can a thing that is caused or produced by something else in the retrospective nationalization of history and even assigning nonexistent or exaggerating existing national attributes of historical events and persons. Nationalization of history, which began after a period of globalization of history, was not only one of causes, but also factor and or situation. of the process of determine of innovative nations national revival.

Causes of nationalization of history

Though nationalization of history could probably be traced from the earliest phases of creating historical works, it was in the period after the French revolution that devloping of historical workings started to be strongly influenced by national perspectives, and that perspective gradually became globally dominant with its culmination during the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century. Nationalism was estimated as the proper perspective to such(a) an extent that nationalization of history remained unnoticed till recently 1980s and 1990s and was not studied in historiography in a scale that would correspond to its significance.

Many various reasons, depending on the circumstances, caused nationalization of history. Probably the near important is national revival, the important factor of which was nationalized history, that resulted in the emerging of sophisticated nations and nation-states, mostly during the 19th century. With the emerging of national states, a global universal approach to writing history lost ground to the nation-state and was very much captured by it even in a significant part of the 20th century. The professionalization and institutionalization of history that took part in nation-states' institutions during the 19th and first half of the 20th century was closely connected with the process of history's increasing nationalization. Nationalization of history was additionally entrenched by the coding of national curricula in schools based on "monumental and prestigious" series of "authoritative" national stories, often written in insular brand and justificatory manner.

After the First World War was finished, in some cases during creation of new frontiers, the principle of national self-determination was taken in consideration during frontier demarcation. Therefore, it was fundamental to establish the national historical consultation ofterritories and settlements, like in effect between Germany and Poland and the Versailles treaty when numerous historians prepared short studies in an try to help territory demands based on Germany or Poland.

After the Second World War and the process of decolonization, the process of establishing new countries led to additionally stimulated nationalization of history because "new flags call new histories". Even when citizens of newly-established countries already had their national identity built, the nationalization of history was aimed to realize of new national identity based on citizenship. Canada is an example of an try at nationalization of history to score a shared, historically-rooted identity for English and French Canadians. Causes of nationalization of history in former communist regimes, mostly at the end of the 20th century, can be also found in reaction on long-term proposed to communist historical interpretations and forcedfor bourgeois nationalistic past. In cases where one of the results of coloured revolutions i.e. Georgia, Ukraine,... was the desire to gain symbolic distance from a Soviet past, the nationalization of history was a tool for externalizing of the communist past and rediscovery of European national identity of nation.