Matthew D'Auria

Aviel Roshwald

Cathie Carmichael

This major new reference work with contributions from an international team of scholars provides a comprehensive account of ideas and practices of nationhood and nationalism from antiquity to the present. It considers both continuities and discontinuities, engaging critically and analytically with the scholarly literature in the field. In volume II, leading scholars in their fields explore the dynamics of nationhood and nationalism's interactions with a wide variety of cultural practices and social institutions – in addition to the phenomenon's crucial political dimensions. The relationships between imperialism and nationhood/nationalism and between major world religions and ethno-national identities are among the key themes explained and explored. The wide range of case studies from around the world brings a truly global, comparative perspective to a field whose study was long constrained by Eurocentric assumptions.

The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism: Volume 2, Nationalism's Fields of Interaction

The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism

Casts new light on of the 'official' French nineteenth-century narrative by examining how historians and philosophers conceived of the country's past.

Narrating the Nation's Past, 1715–1830

The Shaping of French National Identity

Vittorio Dini

Based on a selection of papers, duly revised and lengthened, presented at a conference "The Space of Crisis and the Crisis of Space. Europe 1914-1945," held in Salerno on 14-16 April 2010.

Images and Ideas of Europe in the Age of Crisis, 1914-1945

The Space of Crisis

Mark Hewitson

The period between 1917 and 1957, starting with the birth of the USSR and the American intervention in the First World War and ending with the Treaty of Rome, is of the utmost importance for contextualizing and understanding the intellectual origins of the European Community. During this time of 'crisis,' many contemporaries, especially intellectuals, felt they faced a momentous decision which could bring about a radically different future. The understanding of what Europe was and what it should be was questioned in a profound way, forcing Europeans to react. The idea of a specifically European unity finally became, at least for some, a feasible project, not only to avoid another war but to avoid the destruction of the idea of European unity. This volume reassesses the relationship between ideas of Europe and the European project and reconsiders the impact of long and short-term political transformations on assumptions about the continent's scope, nature, role and significance.

Matthew D'Auria

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