European Nations
European Nations

Author: Miroslav Hroch

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2015-04-28

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1781688354

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One of the world’s leading theorists of nationalism offers a new synthesis In the history of modern political thought, no topics have attracted as much attention as nationalism, nation-formation, and patriotism. A mass of literature has grown around these vexed issues, muddying the waters, and a level-headed clarification is long overdue. Rather than adding another theory of nationalism to this maelstrom of ideas, Miroslav Hroch has created a remarkable synthesis, integrating apparently competing frameworks into a coherent system that tracks the historical genesis of European nations through the sundry paths of the nation-forming processes of the nineteenth century. Combining a comparative perspective on nation-formation with invaluable theoretical insights, European Nations is essential for anyone who wants to understand the historical roots of Europe’s current political crisis.

European Nations and Nationalism
European Nations and Nationalism

Author: Louk Hagendoorn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 511

ISBN-13: 1351938479

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This rich source book informs its reader in a comparative perspective about the political and social-economic past and present of fifteen Western, Central and Eastern European countries. This includes the economic and social aspects of the development of the nation state, descriptions of the current political structures and institutions, an account of the types of ethnic composition of the populations, definitions of citizenship and a background to the existing political parties and preferences. The countries involved are: the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands, Belgium, Britain, France, Spain and Italy. The authors are scholars in the fields of nationalism and ethnic conflict and they were invited to write their country chapters along the lines of a common format, paying special attention to the notion of state and nation building processes, citizenship definitions and minority issues. This book is a comprehensive reference guide for students and scholars in the fields of social sciences, European studies, history and other related disciplines and generally to those who are interested in the past and present of any one of the large number of countries described.

The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)
The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)

Author: J. Holland Rose

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-05

Total Pages: 630

ISBN-13:

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the major historical events that took place in Europe during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. From the founding of the French Republic to the Russo-Turkish War, and from the Congo Free State to the German Empire, the book explores the many changes that shaped Europe during this time period. The book also delves into the impact of colonialism on the African continent, providing insight into the complex political and social issues that emerged as European powers vied for control of African resources. With its detailed exploration of significant events and its thoughtful analysis of their historical context, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Europe in the modern era.

The European Rescue of the Nation-state
The European Rescue of the Nation-state

Author: Alan S. Milward

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 9780415216296

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Newly revised and updated, this second edition is the classic economic and political account of the origins of the European Community book offers a challenging interpretation of the history of the western European state and European integration.

From Peoples Into Nations
From Peoples Into Nations

Author: John Connelly

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-01-21

Total Pages: 966

ISBN-13: 0691167125

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Peoples of Eastern Europe -- Ethnicity on the edge of extinction -- Linguistic nationalism -- Nationality struggles : from idea to movement -- Insurgent nationalism : Serbia and Poland -- Cursed are the peacemakers : 1848 in East Central Europe -- The reform that made the monarchy unreformable : the 1867 compromise -- 1878 Berlin Congress : Europe's new ethno-nation states -- The origins of National Socialism : fin de siecle Hungary and Bohemia -- Liberalism's heirs and enemies : socialism vs. nationalism -- Peasant utopias : villages of yesterday and societies of tomorrow -- 1919 : a new Europe and its old problems -- The failure of national self-determination -- Fascism takes root : Iron Guard and Arrow Cross -- East Europe's anti-fascism -- Hitler's war and its East European enemies -- What Dante did not see : the Holocaust in Eastern Europe -- People's democracy : early postwar Eastern Europe -- Cold War and Stalinism -- Destalinization : Hungary's revolution -- National paths to communism : the 1960s -- 1968 and the Soviet bloc : reform communism -- Real existing socialism : life in the Soviet bloc -- The unraveling of communism -- 1989 -- East Europe explodes : the wars of Yugoslav succession -- East Europe joins Europe.

Adulterous Nations
Adulterous Nations

Author: Tatiana Kuzmic

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2016-11-15

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0810133997

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In Adulterous Nations, Tatiana Kuzmic enlarges our perspective on the nineteenth-century novel of adultery, showing how it often served as a metaphor for relationships between the imperialistic and the colonized. In the context of the long-standing practice of gendering nations as female, the novels under discussion here—George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest, and Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, along with August Šenoa’s The Goldsmith’s Gold and Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Quo Vadis—can be understood as depicting international crises on the scale of the nuclear family. In each example, an outsider figure is responsible for the disruption experienced by the family. Kuzmic deftly argues that the hopes, anxieties, and interests of European nations during this period can be discerned in the destabilizing force of adultery. Reading the work of Šenoa and Sienkiewicz, from Croatia and Poland, respectively, Kuzmic illuminates the relationship between the literature of dominant nations and that of the semicolonized territories that posed a threat to them. Ultimately, Kuzmic’s study enhances our understanding of not only these five novels but nineteenth-century European literature more generally.

The Myth of Nations
The Myth of Nations

Author: Patrick J. Geary

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2003-02-02

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0691114811

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Dismantling nationalist myths about how the nations of Europe were born, this text contrasts them with the actual history of Europe's transformation between the fourth and ninth centuries - the period of grand migrations that nationalists hold dear.