Nationhood from Below: Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
General Introduction: Writing the Mass into a Mass Phenomenon....Pages 3-22
What Does It Mean to Say that Nationalism Is ‘Popular’?....Pages 23-43
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
An Inconvenient Nation: Nation-Building and National Identity in Modern Spain. The Historiographical Debate....Pages 47-72
On the Uses and Abuses of Nationalism from Below: A Few Notes on Italy....Pages 73-95
Differentiation or Indifference? Changing Perspectives on National Identification in the Austrian Half of the Habsburg Monarchy....Pages 96-119
Nationhood from Below: Some Historiographic Notes on Great Britain, France and Germany in the Long Nineteenth Century....Pages 120-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
The Nation and Its Outsiders: The ‘Gypsy Question’ and Peasant Nationalism in Finland, c. 1863–1900....Pages 139-161
Which Political Nation? Soft Borders and Popular Nationhood in the Rhineland, 1800–1850....Pages 162-189
Between or Without Nations? Multiple Identifications Among Belgian Migrants in Lille, Northern France, 1850–1900....Pages 193-213
‘From the Wound a Flower Grows’: A Re-Examination of French Patriotism in the Face of the Franco-Prussian War....Pages 214-229
‘All the Butter in the Country Belongs to Us, Belgians’: Well-Being and Lower-Class National Identification in Belgium During the First World War....Pages 230-249
General Conclusion: Popular Nationhood — A Companion of European Modernities....Pages 250-260
Back Matter....Pages 261-267