EurViews. Europa im Schulbuch
The edition EurViews provides a wealth of different research landscapes with a unique stock of source material in three languages: alongside the original language, in German and English translation.
EurViews employs a historical and systematic approach and seeks to unveil the plurality and changeability of concepts of Europe, sensitising its readers to the variability of and rivalry between different memory cultures. The concept was expanded for the project WorldViews . Since 2018 results of the project EurViews are freely accessible in a collection on this platform.
Aims
The multilingual editorial project EurViews aimed to collect concepts of Europe and Europeanness conveyed in history textbooks from all over the world of the 20th and 21st centuries, to critically edit them, and to render them accessible to an international public. EurViews employs a historical and systematic approach and seeks to unveil the plurality and changeability of concepts of Europe, sensitising its readers to the variability of and rivalry between different memory cultures.
Methodology
An international team of authors was compiling a comprehensive selection of texts, maps and illustrations that was translated in three languages: alongside the original language, in German and English translation. Historical and contemporary textbook sources from all European and many non-European countries were being incorporated, furnished with commentaries and contextualised. Above all, the project allowed for diachronic and synchronic comparative analyses on shifts in state-defined representations of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries, while at the same time raising questions concerning transnational trends and transfer processes across national boundaries.
In completed research projects, modules were developed with funding from the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, and the TU Braunschweig. The collection of source material from 25 countries went online on 1 July 2014.
Results
