A Contested Nation - History, Memory and Nationalism in Switzerland, 1761-1891

Informationen zum Autor Oliver Zimmer was educated at the University of Zurich (Lic. Phil. I) and at the London School of Economics and Political Science (Ph.D.), and he began his academic career at the University of Durham in 1999. In 2005 he took up a University Lectureship (CUF) at Oxford. Previous publications include Nationalism in Europe, 1890–1940 (2003) and Power and the Nation in European History (edited with Len Scales, Cambridge University Press, 2005). Klappentext Oliver Zimmer examines the ways in which the Swiss defined their national identity in the nineteenth century! in the face of a changing domestic and international background. Zimmer explores why the nation became the focus of public concern at particular historical junctures! how different social actors created and re-created Swiss nationhood! and why the Swiss embraced some definitions rather than others. Beginning in the 1760s! which witnessed the genesis of an early national movement! the book ends in the 1890s when Switzerland developed into a modern nation. Zusammenfassung This book examines the ways in which the Swiss came to define their national identity. It explores why the nation became a theme of public concern! how different social actors created and re-created Swiss nationhood! and why they embraced some definitions rather than others. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; List of tables; Preface; Introduction: history, memory and the politics of national identity; 1. Confederate identity before nationalism - events, politics, symbols; Part I. Towards the Cult of the Nation: 2. Dreaming of the wider fatherland - the nation of the patriots; 3. Contentious unity - the rise and fall of an indivisible nation; 4. 'The nation has had her say at last'; Part II. The Birth of the Modern Mass Nation: 5. 'We have become a people'; 6. Competing visions of the nation's past; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Oliver Zimmer, Zimmer Oliver
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.07.2003
• EAN: 9780521819190
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81919-0
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Past and Present Publications; Past and Present Publications
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Switzerland, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Politics & government, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Political Economy, Social and cultural history, Politics and government