Nationhood from Below

Part I. Introductory Section

1. General Introduction: Writing the Mass into a Mass Phenomenon
Marnix Beyen, Maarten Ginderachter

2. What Does It Mean to Say that Nationalism Is ‘Popular’?
John Breuilly

Part II. Historiographic Surveys

3. An Inconvenient Nation: Nation-Building and National Identity in Modern Spain. The Historiographical Debate
Fernando Molina, Miguel Cabo Villaverde

4. On the Uses and Abuses of Nationalism from Below: A Few Notes on Italy
Ilaria Porciani

5. Differentiation or Indifference? Changing Perspectives on National Identification in the Austrian Half of the Habsburg Monarchy
Laurence Cole

6. Nationhood from Below: Some Historiographic Notes on Great Britain, France and Germany in the Long Nineteenth Century
Maarten Ginderachter

Part III. Case Studies

7. The Nation and Its Outsiders: The ‘Gypsy Question’ and Peasant Nationalism in Finland, c. 1863–1900
Miika Tervonen

8. Which Political Nation? Soft Borders and Popular Nationhood in the Rhineland, 1800–1850
James M. Brophy

9. Between or Without Nations? Multiple Identifications Among Belgian Migrants in Lille, Northern France, 1850–1900
Saartje Borre, Tom Verschaffel

10. ‘From the Wound a Flower Grows’: A Re-Examination of French Patriotism in the Face of the Franco-Prussian War
Jean-François Chanet

11. ‘All the Butter in the Country Belongs to Us, Belgians’: Well-Being and Lower-Class National Identification in Belgium During the First World War
Antoon Vrints

12. General Conclusion: Popular Nationhood — A Companion of European Modernities
Marnix Beyen, Maarten Ginderachter

Keywords: History, European History, Modern History, Cultural History, Historiography and Method, Social History, Political History