Emotions and Everyday Nationalism in Modern European History

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-23647-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 351 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

This volume examines how ideas of the nation influenced ordinary people, by focusing on their affective lives. Using a variety of sources, methods and cases, ranging from Spain during the age of Revolutions to post-World War II Poland, it demonstrates that emotions are integral to understanding the everyday pull of nationalism on ordinary people.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stynen, Andreas

Ginderachter, Maarten van

Núñez Seixas, Xosé Manoel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: emotions and everyday nationalism in modern European history

1. Feeling nationhood while telling lives: ego-documents, emotions and national character during the Age of Revolutions

2. So close and yet so far: degrees of emotional proximity in pauper letters to Dutch national power holders around 1800

3. ‘Lou tresor dóu Felibrige’: an Occitan dictionary and its emotional potential for readers

4. Learning to love: embodied practices of patriotism in the Belgian nineteenth-century classroom (and beyond)

5. Performing and remembering personal nationalism among workers in late Russian Poland

6. In search of the true Italy: emotional practices and the nation in Fiume 1919/1920

7. Bringing out the dead: mass funerals, cult of death and the emotional dimension of nationhood in Romanian interwar fascism

8. Feeling the fatherland: Finnish soldiers’ lyrical attachments to the nation during the Second World War

9. Emotional communities and the reconstruction of emotional bonds to alien territories: the nationalization of the Polish ‘Recovered Territories’ after 1945

Conclusions: national(ized) emotions from below

Über Autor(innen)

Andreas Stynen (KU Leuven) is a Postdoctoral Assistant at the Research Group for Cultural History after 1750.

Maarten Van Ginderachter (Antwerp University) is a Professor of History at the PoHis Center for Political History.

Xosé M. Núñez Seixas (University of Santiago de Compostela) is a Professor of Modern European History.