This book is the first attempt to bridge the current divide between studies addressing "economic nationalism" as a deliberate ideology and movement of economic 'nation-building', and the literature concerned with more diffuse expressions of economic "nationness"—from national economic symbols and memories, to the "banal" world of product communication. The editors seeks to highlight the importance of economic issues for the study of nations and nationalism, and its findings point to the need to give economic phenomena a more prominent place in the field of nationalism studies. The authors of the essays come from disciplines as diverse as economic and cultural history, political science, business studies, as well as sociology and anthropology. Their chapters address the nationalism-economy nexus in a variety of realms, including trade, foreign investment, and national control over resources, as well as consumption, migration, and welfare state policies. Some of the case studies have a historical focus on nation-building in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, while others are concerned with contemporary developments. Several contributions provide in-depth analyses of single cases while others employ a comparative method. The geographical focus of the contributions vary widely, although, on balance, the majority of our authors deal with European countries.
- Cover
- title page
- copyright page
- Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- Part I: Surveys
- Historians, Nationalism Studies, and the Economy
- Nationalism in Political Economy Scholarship
- Part II: Case Studies
- Visions of Europe: European Integration and its Origins in Nineteenth Century Economic Thinking about Nation-Building
- Theoretical and Historical Reflections on Economic Nationalism in Germany and the United States in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
- Land Regimes in Nation-Building Processes and Nation-States: The Case of Israel in Comparative Perspective
- Disparities and Economic Nationhood in Yugoslavia
- Pro-Urban Welfare in an Agricultural Country? Economic Nationalism and Welfare Regime Problems of Fit: Lessons from Interwar Romania
- Nationalizing Consumption: Products, Brands, and Nations
- Nation Branding and Nationalism
- National Interests and Foreign Direct Investment in East-Central Europe after 1989
- Economic Nationhood and International Migration: The Case of China
- Part III: Beyond the Nation?
- Embedding the Social Question into International Order: Economic Thought and the Origins of Neoliberalism in the 1930s
- Economic Europeanness
- List of Contributors
- Index
- back cover
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