The Roots of Nationalism : National Identity Formation in Early Modern Europe, 1600-1815 / ed. by Lotte Jensen. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2016] ©2016 - 1 online resource (328 p.) : 23 halftones - Heritage and Memory Studies ; 1 .

Frontmatter -- Heritage and Memory Studies -- Contents -- The Roots of Nationalism -- Part One. The Modernist Paradigm Contested -- 1. Premodern Nations, National Identities, National Sentiments and National Solidarity -- 2. Vanishing Primordialism. Literature, History and the Public -- Revolutionary France and the Origins of Nationalism. An Old Problem Revisited -- Part Two. The Genealogy of National Identity -- 4. The Chronicler's Background. Historical Discourse and National Identity in Early Modern Spain -- 5. Arngrímur Jónsson and the Mapping of Iceland -- 6. The Low Countries. Constitution, Nationhood and Character according to Hugo Grotius -- 7. A Russia Born of War -- 8. Exiled Trojans or the Sons of Gomer. Wales's Origins in the long Eighteenth Century -- Part Three. Negative Mirror Imaging -- 9. Defining the Nation, Defending the Nation. the Spanish Apologetic Discourse during the Twelve Years' Truce (1609-1621) -- 10. Negative Mirror Images in Anglo-Dutch Relations, 1650-1674 -- 11. Comparing Ruins. National Trauma in Dutch Travel Accounts of the Seventeenth Century -- Part Four. Maps, Language and Canonisation -- 12. The Roots of Modern Hungarian Nationalism. A Case Study and a Research Agenda -- 13. Preserving the Past and Constructing a Canon. Defining National Taste and Tradition in an Eighteenth-Century. Cabinet of Literary Curiosities -- 14. Emergent Nationalism in European Maps of the Eighteenth Century -- Part Five. Nation in the Age of Revolution -- 15. 'Qu'allons-nous devenir?' Belgian National Identity in the Age of Revolution -- 16. Singing the Nation. Protest Songs and National Thought in the Netherlands during the Napoleonic Annexation (1810-1813) -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Index



This collection brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to offer perspectives on national identity formation in various European contexts between 1600 and 1815. Contributors challenge the dichotomy between modernists and traditionalists in nationalism studies through an emphasis on continuity rather than ruptures in the shaping of European nations in the period, while also offering an overview of current debates in the field and case studies on a number of topics, including literature, historiography, and cartography.


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In English.

9789048530649

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Nationalism--History.--Europe
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.

D246 / .R66 2016

940.2