Region and State in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Nation-Building, Regional Identities and Separatism

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Region and State....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Historiographical Approaches to Sub-national Identities in Europe: A Reappraisal and Some Suggestions....Pages 13-35
The Birth of Regionalism and the Crisis of Reason: France, Germany and Spain....Pages 36-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
National Diversity, Regionalism and Decentralism in France....Pages 57-68
Regionalism in Italy: A Critique....Pages 69-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Regionalism, Federalism and Nationalism in the German Empire....Pages 93-110
How to Run a Multilingual Society: Statehood, Administration and Regional Dynamics in Austria-Hungary, 1867–1914....Pages 111-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
The Empire, the Nation and the Homelands: Nineteenth-Century Spain’s National Idea....Pages 131-148
‘A Mere Geographical Expression’? Scotland and Scottish Identity, c. 1890–1914....Pages 149-167
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Gaelic and Northumbrian: Separatism and Regionalism in the United Kingdom, 1890–1920....Pages 172-191
Irish Nationalism and Unionism Between State, Region and Nation....Pages 192-208
Nationalist Versus Regionalist? The Flemish and Walloon Movements in Belle Époque Belgium....Pages 209-226
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
The Consequences of Transport by Steam: Dutch Nationalism and Frisian Regionalism in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 229-245
Inadvertent Allies: Catholicism and Regionalism in a German-Polish Borderland....Pages 246-268
Conclusion: Transnational Patterns....Pages 269-280
Back Matter....Pages 281-293