Nationhood from below [electronic resource] : Europe in the long nineteenth century / edited by Maarten Van Ginderachter, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Antwerp, Marnix Beyen, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Antwerp.
Scholars acknowledge nationalism as a central force in nineteenth-century European history. Yet, they have seldom investigated what the nation meant to ordinary people. In this book, both renowned historians and younger scholars try to answer this question for a host of European countries, including...
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on the Contributors
- PART I: INTRODUCTORY SECTION
- Introduction: Writing the Mass into a Mass Phenomenon; M. Beyen & M. Van Ginderachter
- What Does it Mean to Say that Nationalism is 'Popular'?; J. Breuilly
- PART II: HISTORIOGRAPHIC SURVEYS
- An Inconvenient Nation. Nation Building and National Identity in Modern Spain. The Historiographical Debate;
- F. Molina & M. Cabo
- On the Uses and Abuses of Nationalism from Below. A Few Notes on Italy; I. Porciani
- Differentiation or Indifference? Changing Perspectives on National Identification in the Austrian Half of the Habsburg Monarchy;
- L. Cole
- Nationhood from Below. Some Historiographic Notes on Great Britain, France and Germany in the Long Nineteenth Century;
- M. Van Ginderachter
- PART III: CASE STUDIES
- 'The Domestic Other':
- The Nation and its Outsiders: the 'Gypsy Question' and Peasant Nationalism in Finland, c. 1863-1900; M. Tervonen
- Which Political Nation? Soft Borders and Popular Nationhood in the Rhineland, 1800-1850; J. Brophy
- 'The External Other':
- Between or Without Nations. Multiple Identifications Among Belgian Migrants in Lille, Northern France, 1850-1900;
- S. Vanden Borre & T. Verschaffel
- 'From the Wound a Flower Grows'. A Re-Examination of French Patriotism in the Face of the Franco-Prussian War;
- J. Chanet
- 'All the Butter in the Country Belongs to Us, Belgians'. Well-Being and Lower Class National Identification in Belgium during the First World War; A. Vrints
- General Conclusion. Popular Nationhood: A Companion of European Modernities; M. Beyen & M. Van Ginderachter
- Index.