Region and State in Nineteenth-Century Europe - by J Augusteijn & H Storm Hardcover

Book Synopsis

In reaction to the centralizing nation-building efforts of states in nineteenth-century Europe, many regions began to define their own identity. In thirteen stimulating essays, specialists analyze why regional identities became widely celebrated towards the end of that century and why some considered themselves part of the new national self-image.

Review Quotes

"Volume aims to do two things: first to provide an overview of recent research on regionalism and regional separatism; and second, to use a comparative approach in order to challenge existing (mis)conceptions and introduce new approaches to the study of regions and regionalism. ... a useful introduction to the range of approaches that historians of modern Europe take to sub-state regionalism, as well as to the different roles that modern regional identities have played in European states and Empires." (Caitlin E. Murdock, European History Quarterly, Vol. 46 (1), 2016)

About the Author

TIMOTHY BAYCROFT Senior Lecturer in French History at the University of Sheffield, UK JAMES BJORK Senior Lecturer in the History Department at King's College London, UK STEFANO CAVAZZA Associate Professor in Contemporary History at the University of Bologna, Italy ROBERT COLLS Professor of English History at the University of Leicester, UK JOSEP M. FRADERA Professor of Modern History at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain MAARTEN VAN GINDERACHTER Associate Professor at the Department of History at Antwerp University, Belgium PETER HASLINGER Director of the Herder Institute, Marburg and simultaneously Professor of East Central European History at the Historical Institute of the Justus Liebig University, Gießen and at the Gießen East European Centre (GiZo), Germany GOFFE JENSMA Head of the Department of Frisian Language and Culture and Director of the Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture, Groningen University, the Netherlands ANDREW G. NEWBY Senior Research Fellow at theCollegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki; Adjunct Professor (Docent) in European Area and Cultural Studies, University of Helsinki; Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Aberdeen; and Visiting Researcher at Volda University College, Norway XOSÉ-MANOEL NÚÑEZ Professor of Modern History at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain SIEGFRIED WEICHLEIN Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland