Writing the History of Nationalism

What is nationalism and how can we study it from a historical perspective? Writing the History of Nationalism answers this question by examining eleven historical approaches to nationalism studies in theory and practice.An impressive cast of contributors cover the history of nationalism from a wide range of thematic approaches, from traditional modernist and Marxist perspectives to more recent debates around gender. postcolonialism and the global turn in history writing.This book is essential reading for undergraduate students of history, politics and sociology wanting to understand the complex yet fascinating history of nationalism.>

About the author

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute of Social Movements and the House for the History of the Ruhr at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He is the author of numerous books, including Nationalizing the Past (2015) and Germany: Inventing the Nation (2004) and the editor of A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe: 1789-1914 (2009). He is, along with Kevin Passmore and Heiko Feldner, one of the Series Editors for Bloomsbury’s successful student book series, Writing History.Eric Storm is Senior Lecturer in European History at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is the author of The Culture of Regionalism: Art, Architecture and International Exhibitions in France, Germany and Spain, 1890-1939 (2010). He is also the co-editor, along with Joost Augusteijn, of Region and State in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Nation-Building, Regional Identities and Separatism (2012).

Product details

• Authors: Stefan Berger, Stefan (Professor of Modern German and Com Berger, Eric Storm
• Assisted by: Stefan Berger (Editor), Stefan (Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History Berger (Editor), Heiko Feldner (Editor), Kevin Passmore (Editor), Eric Storm (Editor), Eric (Leiden University Storm (Editor), Storm Eric (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781350064300
• ISBN: 978-1-350-06430-0
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Writing History; Writing History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / World, Nationalism, HISTORY / Historiography, General & world history, Historiography, General and world history