Title: Nationalization of history - Wikipedia
Headings: Nationalization of history
Nationalization of history
Contents
Universal history
Main article: Universal history
Causes of nationalization of history
Renationalization of history
Renationalization of history in Ukraine
Legacy
Nation mythologies, histories and states
Society and nature
Denationalization of history
See also
References

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Nationalization of history
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Nationalization of history is the 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 not treated with great care, it can result 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 element and result of the process of establishment of modern nations ( national revival ). Contents
1 Universal history
2 Causes of nationalization of history
3 Renationalization of history
3.1 Renationalization of history in Ukraine
4 Legacy
4.1 Nation mythologies, histories and states
4.2 Society and nature
4.3 Denationalization of history
5 See also
6 References
Universal history
Main article: Universal history
Voltaire was the first in the modern period who attempted to write a history of the world, without use of religious and nationalistic interpretations of the past. Universal history, the result of a universal, cosmopolitan interpretation of historical events and mankind as a whole, coherent unit, preceded the nationalization of history. In the Western world, this motivation to imagine a universal history became influential in the 18th century when numerous philosophers promoted new cosmopolitan ideologies, after the ethno-religious conflicts of the previous century, and the subsequent consolidation of states which attempted to impose themselves over religious particularisms. Colonial experience (many European countries had colonies) exposed society in Europe to numerous different cultures and civilizations. It is also very important to take in consideration that the 18th century was in the Age of Enlightenment when people's activities, both on individual and social level, were determined with desire to follow rational scientific judgment while changing the society, which released them from restraints of customs and arbitrary authorities based on faith, superstition, or revelation and backed up by religion or tradition. All these circumstances provided suitable surroundings for development of universalistic, liberal and rational global perspectives in studies of society and its past and writing historical texts.