Region and State in Nineteenth-Century Europe [electronic resource] : Nation-Building, Regional Identities and Separatism /
Augusteijn, J.editor.
Storm, H.editor.
In reaction to the centralizing nation-building efforts of states in nineteenth-century Europe, many regions began to define their own identity. In thirteen stimulating essays, specialists analyze why regional identities became widely celebrated towards the end of that century and why some considered themselves part of the new national self-image.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: Region and State; Part I: Transnational; 2 Historiographical Approaches to Sub-national Identities in Europe: A Reappraisal and Some Suggestions; 3 The Birth of Regionalism and the Crisis of Reason: France, Germany and Spain; Part II: Centralised Nation-States; 4 National Diversity, Regionalism and Decentralism in France; 5 Regionalism in Italy: A Critique; Part III: Continental Empires; 6 Regionalism, Federalism and Nationalism in the German Empire
7 How to Run a Multilingual Society: Statehood, Administration and Regional Dynamics in Austria-Hungary, 1867-1914Part IV: Region, Nation, Empire; 8 The Empire, the Nation and the Homelands: Nineteenth-Century Spain's National Idea; 9 'A Mere Geographical Expression'? Scotland and Scottish Identity, c. 1890-1914; Part V: Competing Regional Movements; 10 Gaelic and Northumbrian: Separatism and Regionalism in the United Kingdom, 1890-1920; 11 Irish Nationalism and Unionism Between State, Region and Nation
12 Nationalist Versus Regionalist? The Flemish and Walloon Movements in Belle Époque BelgiumPart VI: Language and Religion; 13 The Consequences of Transport by Steam: Dutch Nationalism and Frisian Regionalism in the Nineteenth Century; 14 Inadvertent Allies: Catholicism and Regionalism in a German-Polish Borderland; 15 Conclusion: Transnational Patterns; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In reaction to the centralizing nation-building efforts of states in nineteenth-century Europe, many regions began to define their own identity. In thirteen stimulating essays, specialists analyze why regional identities became widely celebrated towards the end of that century and why some considered themselves part of the new national self-image.
World politics.
Europe-History.
History, Modern.
Social history.
Anthropology.
Political History.
European History.
Modern History.
Social History.
Anthropology.
Nation-building
19th century