Setting the Standards

MONIKA BAÁR Rosalind Franklin Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the University of Groningen, the NetherlandsERNST BRUCKMÜLLER Scientific Director of the Institute Austrian Historical Biography (Austrian Academy of Sciences) in Vienna, AustriaJEAN-PIERRE CHALINE Emeritus Professor of Contemporary History of the University of Paris-Sorbonne, FranceGABRIELE B. CLEMENS Chair for Modern History and Regional History at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, GermanyNEIL EVANS Honorary Research Fellow in the School of History and Archaeology at Cardiff University, UKIDESBALD GODDEERIS Associate Professor in the Subfaculty of History at the University of Leuven, BelgiumFRANK HADLER Honorary Professor for Cultural History of East Central Europe at Leipzig University, GermanyIRÈNE HERRMANN Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Geneva, SwitzerlandGABRIELE LINGELBACH Full Professor of Contemporary Global History at Bamberg University, GermanyMONIKA MANDELÍ?KOVÁ PhD student at Olomouc University, Czech RepublicFRANZISKA METZGER Lecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Fribourg, SwitzerlandCLAUS MØLLER JØRGENSEN Associate Professor in Theory, Methods and History of Historical Science, Department of History and Area Studies, University of Aarhus, DenmarkMAURO MORETTI Full Professor of Contemporary History at the Università per Stranieri in Siena, ItalyJAN EIVIND MYHRE Professor of Modern History in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo, NorwayMARY O?DOWD Professor of Gender History at Queen?s University BelfastEMMANUELLE PICARD Researcher at the Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon / Institut français d?éducationATTILA PÓK Deputy Director of the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, HungaryILARIA PORCIANI Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and the History of Historiography at the University of Bologna, ItalyLUTZ RAPHAEL Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Trier, GermanyLLUÍS ROURA Y AULINAS Professor in the Department of Modern History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, SpainDANIELA SAXER Researcher at the University of Zürich, SwitzerlandMARCELLO VERGA Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Florence, ItalyTOM VERSCHAFFEL Professor of History at the University of Leuven, BelgiumMICHAEL VÖSSING PhD student at the Historical Institute at the University of Mannheim, Germany

• List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Introduction Institutions, Networks and Communities in a European Perspective; J.Tollebeek & I.Porciani PART I 'Something More than a Storage Warehouse'. The Creation of National Archives; T.Verschaffel Monumental Undertakings. Source Publications for the Nation; D.Saxer Scholarly Communication with a Political Impetus. National Historical Journals; C.M.Jørgensen The Dictionary Is Dead, Long Live the Dictionary! Biographical Collections in National Contexts; M.Verga Exegi Monumentum. The Great Syntheses of National History; J.Tollebeek Nations on Display. History Museums in Europe; I.Porciani PART II In the Provinces. Local and Regional Learned Societies; J.Chaline Wishful Thinking. Academic Competitions in National History; M.Baár 'A Daily Working Group Together in One House'. Research Institutes and the National Academies of Sciences in East Central Europe; F.Hadler & A.Pók Serving the Profession. National Associations of Historians; G.Lingelbach & M.Vössing Places of Innovation and Exchange. The Extra-University Research Institutions for Historical Research; E.Picard & G.Lingelbach Militancy and Pluralism. Party and Church Institutes of Contemporary History in Western Europe since 1945; L.Raphael Wider Connections. International Networks among European Historians; J.E.Myhre PART III A New Community of Scholars. The University Professors at Work; M.Moretti A Truculent Revenge. The Clergy and the Writing of National History; I.Herrmann & F.Metzger Bulwark of Traditions. The European Nobility and National Historiography in the Nineteenth Century; G.B.Clemens Popular Writers. Women Historians, the Academic Community and National History Writing; M.O'Dowd Striving for Visibility. Nationalists in Multinational Empires and States; E.Bruckmüller , N.Evans & L.R.Aulinas Living in the Past. Historians in Exile; M.Mandelí?ková & I.Goddeeris Concluding Remarks: Historians and the Web; I.Porciani & J.Tollebeek SelectedBibliographies Index of Persons