Konrad H. Jarausch was director of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam and Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. His research interests included German unification in 1989/90, the nature of the East German dictatorship and the problem of interpreting 20th-century German history in general. His publications include The Shattered Past: Reconstructing German Histories with Michael Geyer (Princeton 2002) and Die Umkehr: Deutsche Wandlungen 1945-1995 (München 2004).

• AcknowledgmentsList of AcronymnsIntroduction: Contours of a Critical History of Contemporary Europe: A Transnational AgendaKonrad H. Jarausch and Thomas LindenbergerPart I: Contested MemoriesChapter 1. History of Memory, Policies of the Past: What For?Henry RoussoChapter 2. Communist Legacies in the ‘New Europe’: History, Ethnicity, and the Creation of a ‘Socialist’ Nation in Romania, 1945–1989Dragos¸ PetrescuChapter 3. Writing National Histories in Europe: Refl ections on the Pasts, Presents and Futures of a TraditionStefan BergerChapter 4. Between Europe and the Nation: The Inward Turn of Contemporary Historical WritingPieter LagrouPart II: Multiple ConflictsChapter 5. War and Conflict in Contemporary European History, 1914–2004John HorneChapter 6. In Search of a Second Historicization: National Socialism in a Transnational PerspectiveKiran Klaus PatelChapter 7. The Origins of the Cold War in Eurasia: A Borderland PerspectiveAlfred J. RieberPart III: Transnational InteractionsChapter 8. Europe as Leisure Time Communication: Tourism and Transnational Interaction since 1945Thomas MergelChapter 9. Integration from Below? Migration and European Contemporary HistoryKaren SchönwälderChapter 10. Twentieth-Century Culture, ‘Americanization,’ and European Audiovisual SpaceMarsha SiefertChapter 11. Economics of West European Integration? Proving the Benefi ts 1952–1973André SteinerPart IV: Unfinished Political ProcessesChapter 12. A European Civil Society?Hartmut KaelbleChapter 13. International Socialist Attempts at Bridge-Building in the Early Postwar PeriodÖrjan AppelqvistChapter 14. Nation Building in the Era of Integration: The Case of MoldovaIgor CasuPostscript: The Subject(s) of EuropeMichael GeyerSelected BibliographyList of Contributors

Konrad H. Jarausch was director of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam and Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. His research interests included German unification in 1989/90, the nature of the East German dictatorship and the problem of interpreting 20th-century German history in general. His publications include The Shattered Past: Reconstructing German Histories with Michael Geyer (Princeton 2002) and Die Umkehr: Deutsche Wandlungen 1945-1995 (München 2004).

• AcknowledgmentsList of AcronymnsIntroduction: Contours of a Critical History of Contemporary Europe: A Transnational AgendaKonrad H. Jarausch and Thomas LindenbergerPart I: Contested MemoriesChapter 1. History of Memory, Policies of the Past: What For?Henry RoussoChapter 2. Communist Legacies in the ‘New Europe’: History, Ethnicity, and the Creation of a ‘Socialist’ Nation in Romania, 1945–1989Dragos¸ PetrescuChapter 3. Writing National Histories in Europe: Refl ections on the Pasts, Presents and Futures of a TraditionStefan BergerChapter 4. Between Europe and the Nation: The Inward Turn of Contemporary Historical WritingPieter LagrouPart II: Multiple ConflictsChapter 5. War and Conflict in Contemporary European History, 1914–2004John HorneChapter 6. In Search of a Second Historicization: National Socialism in a Transnational PerspectiveKiran Klaus PatelChapter 7. The Origins of the Cold War in Eurasia: A Borderland PerspectiveAlfred J. RieberPart III: Transnational InteractionsChapter 8. Europe as Leisure Time Communication: Tourism and Transnational Interaction since 1945Thomas MergelChapter 9. Integration from Below? Migration and European Contemporary HistoryKaren SchönwälderChapter 10. Twentieth-Century Culture, ‘Americanization,’ and European Audiovisual SpaceMarsha SiefertChapter 11. Economics of West European Integration? Proving the Benefi ts 1952–1973André SteinerPart IV: Unfinished Political ProcessesChapter 12. A European Civil Society?Hartmut KaelbleChapter 13. International Socialist Attempts at Bridge-Building in the Early Postwar PeriodÖrjan AppelqvistChapter 14. Nation Building in the Era of Integration: The Case of MoldovaIgor CasuPostscript: The Subject(s) of EuropeMichael GeyerSelected BibliographyList of Contributors

Konrad H. Jarausch was director of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam and Lurcy Professor of European Civilization at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. His research interests included German unification in 1989/90, the nature of the East German dictatorship and the problem of interpreting 20th-century German history in general. His publications include The Shattered Past: Reconstructing German Histories with Michael Geyer (Princeton 2002) and Die Umkehr: Deutsche Wandlungen 1945-1995 (München 2004).

• AcknowledgmentsList of AcronymnsIntroduction: Contours of a Critical History of Contemporary Europe: A Transnational AgendaKonrad H. Jarausch and Thomas LindenbergerPart I: Contested MemoriesChapter 1. History of Memory, Policies of the Past: What For?Henry RoussoChapter 2. Communist Legacies in the ‘New Europe’: History, Ethnicity, and the Creation of a ‘Socialist’ Nation in Romania, 1945–1989Dragos¸ PetrescuChapter 3. Writing National Histories in Europe: Refl ections on the Pasts, Presents and Futures of a TraditionStefan BergerChapter 4. Between Europe and the Nation: The Inward Turn of Contemporary Historical WritingPieter LagrouPart II: Multiple ConflictsChapter 5. War and Conflict in Contemporary European History, 1914–2004John HorneChapter 6. In Search of a Second Historicization: National Socialism in a Transnational PerspectiveKiran Klaus PatelChapter 7. The Origins of the Cold War in Eurasia: A Borderland PerspectiveAlfred J. RieberPart III: Transnational InteractionsChapter 8. Europe as Leisure Time Communication: Tourism and Transnational Interaction since 1945Thomas MergelChapter 9. Integration from Below? Migration and European Contemporary HistoryKaren SchönwälderChapter 10. Twentieth-Century Culture, ‘Americanization,’ and European Audiovisual SpaceMarsha SiefertChapter 11. Economics of West European Integration? Proving the Benefi ts 1952–1973André SteinerPart IV: Unfinished Political ProcessesChapter 12. A European Civil Society?Hartmut KaelbleChapter 13. International Socialist Attempts at Bridge-Building in the Early Postwar PeriodÖrjan AppelqvistChapter 14. Nation Building in the Era of Integration: The Case of MoldovaIgor CasuPostscript: The Subject(s) of EuropeMichael GeyerSelected BibliographyList of Contributors