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Maarten Van Ginderachter is Associate Professor of History at Antwerp University. He is the co-editor of
National Indifference and the History of Nationalism in Modern Europe (2019) and
Nationhood from Below: Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century (2012).
List of contents
Introduction: Workers into Belgians, Flemings and Walloons
1. A Socialist Pillar of a Hyperliberal State
2. Voting the Nation
3. Nationalist Celebrations and Mass Entertainment
4. An Anti-Militaristic State in Militaristic Times
5. The Royal and Colonial Paradox
6. Schooling the Nation
7. Encounters with the Belgian Flag and the National Anthem
8. Proletarian Tweets
9. Language, the Flemish Movement, and the Nation
Epilogue: The First World War
About the author
Maarten Van Ginderachter is Associate Professor of History at Antwerp University. He is the co-editor of
National Indifference and the History of Nationalism in Modern Europe (2019) and
Nationhood from Below: Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century (2012).
Summary
In this book, Maarten Van Ginderachter investigates the relationship between working-class identities, socialist politics, ethnicity and nationhood in modern Europe. This new contribution to nationalism studies challenges the dominant view of nationalism as the result of modernization as well as the assumption that nationalism is necessarily a reflection of entho-linguistic identity.
