This book demonstrates in which ways multiple disciplines (history, literature, social and language studies) address young people’s sense of attachment. These studies about the role of education in relation to largely tenacious but shifting national identities should appeal to specialists of education, nationalism studies, history and political science.

Contents: Peter Carrier: Introduction – Françoise Lantheaume: The Empire in French History Teaching. From a Promise to a Burden – Amadou Fall: School and Nation in Senegal from 1960 to the Present Day. A History of Misunderstanding – Jocelyn Létourneau: Teaching History and the Future of the Nation. The Case of Quebec – Montserrat Oller i Freixa: The Social Sciences Curriculum of Catalonia and the Construction of a Regional Identity – Elizabeth Hanauer: The Integration and Segregation of African American History. Self-esteem and Recognition in History Education – Ramón López Facal: History Teaching in Galicia – Anne-Marie Chartier: The Use of Literature in the Formation of French National Identity in School Teaching during the Twentieth Century – Liliana Deyanova: Caught between Two Empires. History School Textbooks in Bulgaria in the Twentieth Century – Diane Vincent: National Languages, Regional Variations and Immigration. The Challenge of Teaching French in Quebec – Peter Carrier: Naming and Misnaming the Nation. Ambivalence and National Belonging in German Textbook Representations of the Holocaust – Lydia Aït Saadi Bouras: The National History of Algeria as Reflected in Textbooks at a Time of Political and Educational Reform.