Review article
WHAT ALL HAVE HISTORIANS INVENTED?
Nikša Stančić
; Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author alerts that some characteristics of P. Korunić's work signify a rupture with the traditional Croat historiography, which has been shaped by professional correctness and responsibility. He discusses Korunić's appraisal of existing historiography, including his earlier and more recent evaluation of the Croatian and Yugoslav idea as well as the idea of federalism and confederalism in the program of the Croatian national (Illyrian) movement and of the National Party during the first and the second half of the nineteenth century, respectively. He judges that the Slavic idea and the idea of the Yugoslav »cultural nation« tended toward elimination of regional particularism and identification of the Croat nation with the non-Slavic German, Magyar, and Italian nation. The idea of Croatian national state (»political nation«) progressively assumed the role of identification and differentiation of theCroat vis-a-vis Slavic and Serb nation. He also thinks that the Croatian national movement based its political program on the principle of state independence of Croatia and on the personal union with the lands of the Habsburg Monarchy, and that its concrete political program assumed federated position of Croatia in the Monarchy.
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210128
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Publication date:
1.4.1994.
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