What Is a Nation? Europe 1789-1914

by Baycroft, Timothy; Hewitson, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780199562503
• ISBN10: 0199562504
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Nationalism has had repercussions throughout the modern era, lying at the root of wars, revolutions, and social and cultural movements. This volume analyses and compares different forms of nationalism as they originated and developed in Europe throughout the 'long nineteenth century', andoffers an original and authoritative reassessment.What is a Nation? reconsiders whether the distinction between civic and ethnic identities and politics in Europe has been overstated, and whether it needs to be replaced altogether by a new set of concepts or types. This and other typologies are explored and related to complex processes ofindustrialization, increasing state intervention, secularization, democratization, and urbanization. Debates about citizenship, political economy, liberal institutions, socialism, empire, changes in the states system, Darwinism, high and popular culture, Romanticism, and Christianity all affected -and were affected by - discussion of nationhood and nationalist politics. By examining the significance of such controversies and institutional changes in a broader European context, together with new and systematic comparisons, this book reassesses the history of modern nationalism.

Table of Contents

Timothy Baycroft and Mark Hewitson: Introduction

Civis and Ethnie

Nation, Identity, and Enmity

France

Germany

Demos

Nation and Region

The Low Countries

Switzerland

The Ottoman Empire

Kultur

Language and Nation

The Habsburg Monarchy

Denmark, Norway, and Sweden

Spain

Etat

Nation-States and Wars

Italy

The United Kingdom

Russia

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

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