National Thought in Europe

A Cultural History - 3rd Revised Edition

A topical history of nationalism provides also a surprising perspective on Europe's contemporary identity politics

National Thought in Europe. A cultural History
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword to the Third Edition
- Preface
- Introduction
Source Traditions, 1200-1800
- Wilderness, Exoticism and the State’s Order: Medieval Views
- The Renaissance and Democratic Primitivism
- Anthropology and the Nation: Character and Climate in the Seventeenth Century
- Politics and the Nation: Patriotism and Democracy in Enlightenment Thought
- The Nation Empowered: Popular Sovereignty and National Unity in the French Revolution
- Culture and the Nation: Literature, the Public Sphere and Anti-French Relativism
The Politics of National Identity
- Napoleon and the Rise of Political Romanticism
- Napoleon and the Rise of National Historicism
- Restoration and the Nation-State
- Nationalism as State Centralism
- Nationalism as Unification
- Nationalism as Separatism
Identity Rampant
- The Nation’s Sources, the State’s Borders: Culture into Geopolitics
- The Nationalization of Culture
- Ethnic Nationalism and Racism
- Versailles and After
Aftermath and Conclusions: Twentieth-Century Issues
- Taming National Sovereignty:Transnationalism and Internationalism
- Postnationalism
- Neonationalism: After the Cold War
- Beyond the nation-state?
Appendices
- Languages, Alphabets, Dialects and Language Politics
- Source References
- Bibliography
- Index