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.
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.
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).
Inhaltsangabe
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.
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.
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