National History and The World Of Nations

""National History and the World of Nations" is one of the most exciting books I have read for some time."--Patrice Higonnet, author of" Sister Republics: The Origins of French and American Republicanism""This is a learned and sophisticated meditation on the ways in which comparable practices of national history writing emerged in three locations tied together by global capitalism and the formation of a worldwide system of nation-states. Christopher L. Hill demonstrates why we must reject national exceptionalisms even as he unveils the particularities of each of the nations he studies with rare insight and linguistic skill. This is an important study that should be read far beyond the parochial boundaries of area studies formations."--Takashi Fujitani, author of "Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan"