Power and the Nation in European History

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 2
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Introduction......Page 15
Power and the nation in the pre-modern world......Page 17
Power and the nation: connecting the pre-modern and the modern......Page 27
Nationalism and the transformation of national identity in modern Europe......Page 34
Notes......Page 38
PART I : Approaches and Debates......Page 45
CHAPTER 1 Were there nations in Antiquity?......Page 47
The western model and its uses......Page 48
Towards an alternative definition......Page 50
Nationalities and ethnies......Page 54
Nation-formation in Antiquity......Page 56
Conclusion......Page 62
Notes......Page 63
CHAPTER 2 The idea of the nation as a political community......Page 68
Notes......Page 78
Introductory remarks......Page 81
Definitions......Page 82
Introductory points......Page 83
The 'English' project before 1066......Page 84
The construction of a political nation......Page 87
The civilised and the barbaric......Page 90
Invoking the nation in inter-state conflict......Page 91
The absence of nation in political thought......Page 94
The nation and 'public culture'......Page 95
The nation in medieval culture......Page 96
Early modern Europe and the perennialist argument......Page 98
Post-modernism: the nation as discourse......Page 102
Connecting the pre-modern to the modern......Page 103
Notes......Page 108
PART II: The Middle Ages......Page 117
CHAPTER 4 Germanic power structures: the early English experience......Page 119
Wynflæd vs Leofwine, Berkshire 990 (P. H. Sawyer (ed.), Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography, Royal Historical Society…......Page 133
Notes......Page 134
CHAPTER 5 The historiography of the Anglo-Saxon 'nation-state'......Page 139
I......Page 141
II......Page 144
III......Page 147
IV......Page 150
Notes......Page 152
CHAPTER 6 Exporting state and nation: being English in medieval Ireland......Page 157
I......Page 158
II......Page 162
III......Page 167
Notes......Page 172
CHAPTER 7 Late medieval Germany: an under-Stated nation?......Page 180
Notes......Page 197
PART III Routes to Modernity......Page 207
CHAPTER 8 The state and Russian national identity......Page 209
Notes......Page 223
CHAPTER 9 Ordering the kaleidoscope: the construction of identities in the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth since 1569......Page 226
Notes......Page 244
CHAPTER 10 Nationhood at the margin: identity, regionality and the English crown in the seventeenth century......Page 246
Notes......Page 257
CHAPTER 11 The nation in the age of revolution......Page 262
Imagining Ireland: the revolutionary nation in the late eighteenth century......Page 265
The law of nations......Page 269
From national characters to national cultures......Page 275
Notes......Page 280
PART IV Modernity......Page 287
Defining the nation by its enemies and its re-birth......Page 289
Policing ex-nobles and foreigners......Page 291
Arguing for inclusion......Page 294
The government's responses......Page 299
Nationality, citizenship and revolutionary regeneration......Page 303
Epilogue......Page 305
Notes......Page 306
CHAPTER 14 Political institutions and nationhood in Germany, 1750–1914......Page 309
The constituent elements of the Italian nation......Page 313
Nation and nations in unified Italy......Page 318
Notes......Page 324
Notes......Page 343
CHAPTER 15 Nation, nationalism and power in Switzerland, c. 1760–1900......Page 347
Dreaming of the wider fatherland......Page 348
Enemies within and without......Page 352
The dynamics of confederate nation-formation......Page 356
Notes......Page 363
I......Page 368
II......Page 373
III......Page 376
Notes......Page 380
Index......Page 384