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The Roots of Nationalism: National Identity Formation in Early Modern Europe, 1600-1815 book cover

1st Edition

The Roots of Nationalism National Identity Formation in Early Modern Europe, 1600-1815

Edited By Lotte Jensen Copyright 2016
342 Pages
by Routledge

342 Pages
by Routledge

This collection brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to offer perspectives on national identity formation in various European contexts between 1600 and 1815. Contributors challenge the dichotomy between modernists and traditionalists in nationalism studies through an emphasis on continuity rather than ruptures in the shaping of European nations in the period, while also... Read more
Introduction, PART ONE: THE MODERNIST PARADIGM CONTESTED, PART TWO: THE GENEALOGY OF NATIONAL IDENTITY, PART THREE: NEGATIVE MIRROR IMAGING, PART FOUR: MAPS, LANGUAGE AND CANONISATION, PART FIVE: NATION IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS, INDEX

Biography

Lotte Jensen is Professor of Dutch Cultural and Literary History at Radboud University, Nijmegen and Principal Investigator of the NWO-funded Vici project Dealing with Disasters. The Shaping of Local and National Identities in the Netherlands (1421-1890), which investigates the impact of natural disasters on Dutch local and national identities from a cultural-historical perspective. She has published books on Napoleon’s legacy in the Netherlands, Dutch literary history and the emergence of Dutch identity. Her most recent book is a cultural history of Dutch floods: Wij en het water. Een Nederlandse geschiedenis (De Bezige Bij 2022).

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