The Roots of Nationalism: National Identity Formation in Early Modern Europe, 1600-1815

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2016

The Roots of Nationalism

National Identity Formation in Early Modern Europe, 1600-1815

Edited by: Lotte Jensen

Volume 1 in the series Heritage and Memory Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048530649

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Contents

About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Lotte Jensen is associate professor of Dutch literary history at Radboud University, Nijmegen.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Heritage and Memory Studies Open Access Download PDF	2
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
The Roots of Nationalism Lotte Jensen Open Access Download PDF	9
Part One. The Modernist Paradigm Contested
1. Premodern Nations, National Identities, National Sentiments and National Solidarity Azar Gat Open Access Download PDF	31
2. Vanishing Primordialism. Literature, History and the Public Andrew Hadfield Open Access Download PDF	47
Revolutionary France and the Origins of Nationalism. An Old Problem Revisited David A. Bell Open Access Download PDF	67
Part Two. The Genealogy of National Identity
4. The Chronicler’s Background. Historical Discourse and National Identity in Early Modern Spain Cesc Esteve Open Access Download PDF	87
5. Arngrímur Jónsson and the Mapping of Iceland Kim P. Middel Open Access Download PDF	109
6. The Low Countries. Constitution, Nationhood and Character according to Hugo Grotius Jan Waszink Open Access Download PDF	135
7. A Russia Born of War Gregory Carleton Open Access Download PDF	153
8. Exiled Trojans or the Sons of Gomer. Wales’s Origins in the long Eighteenth Century Adam Coward Open Access Download PDF	167
Part Three. Negative Mirror Imaging
9. Defining the Nation, Defending the Nation. the Spanish Apologetic Discourse during the Twelve Years’ Truce (1609-1621) Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez Open Access Download PDF	185
10. Negative Mirror Images in Anglo-Dutch Relations, 1650-1674 Gijs Rommelse Open Access Download PDF	199
11. Comparing Ruins. National Trauma in Dutch Travel Accounts of the Seventeenth Century Alan Moss Open Access Download PDF	217
Part Four. Maps, Language and Canonisation
12. The Roots of Modern Hungarian Nationalism. A Case Study and a Research Agenda László Marácz Open Access Download PDF	235
13. Preserving the Past and Constructing a Canon. Defining National Taste and Tradition in an Eighteenth-Century. Cabinet of Literary Curiosities Lieke van Deinsen Open Access Download PDF	251
14. Emergent Nationalism in European Maps of the Eighteenth Century Michael Wintle Open Access Download PDF	271
Part Five. Nation in the Age of Revolution
15. ‘Qu’allons-nous devenir?’ Belgian National Identity in the Age of Revolution Jane Judge Open Access Download PDF	291
16. Singing the Nation. Protest Songs and National Thought in the Netherlands during the Napoleonic Annexation (1810-1813) Bart Verheijen Open Access Download PDF	309
List of Illustrations Open Access Download PDF	329
List of Contributors Open Access Download PDF	333
Index Open Access Download PDF	337

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 328
Illustrations
- Other: 23 halftones

eBook

Published: September 15, 2016
ISBN: 9789048530649