Table of Contents

List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction Alice Teichova, Herbert Matis and Jaroslav Pátek; Part I: 1. Nationalism and the economic question in twentieth-century Ireland Alan O'Day; 2. Economic aspects of the nationality problem in twentieth-century Belgium Eric Buyst; 3. The economy as a pushing or retarding force in the development of the German question during the second half of the twentieth century Jörg Roesler; 4. The Lusatian Sorbs in twentieth-century Germany: industrialisation and the national question Eduard Kûbu; 5. Unequal regional development in Switzerland: a question of nationality? Bruno Fritzsche; Part II: 6. The Portuguese national question in the twentieth century: from Spanish threat to European growth Nuno Valério; 7. From autarky to the European Union: nationalist economic policies in twentieth-century Spain Gabriel Tortella and Stefan Haupt; 8. The economic background to the Basque question in Spain Monserrat Gárate; 9. Economic change and the national question in twentieth-century Italy Luigi Di Rosa; 10. National integration and economic change in Greece during the twentieth century Margarita Dritsas; Part III: 11. National identity and economic conditions in twentieth-century Austria Herbert Matis; 12. Economic and social differentiation in multinational Czechoslovakia Jaroslav Pátek; 13. Nationality and competition: Czechs and Germans in the economy of the first Czechoslovak republic, 1918–38 Christoph Boyer; 14. Economic aspects of Slovak national development in the twentieth century Roman Holec; 15. Economic background to the national question in twentieth-century Hungary Agnes Pogány; 16. Economic background to national conflicts in Yugoslavia Neven Borak; Part IV: 17. Economic differentiation and the national question in Poland in the twentieth century Jerzy Tomaszewski; 18. Economy and ethnicity in the hands of the state: economic change and the national question in twentieth-century Estonia Anu Mai Köll; 19. Changing structure and organisation of foreign trade in Finland after Russian rule Riitta Hjerppe and Juha-Antti Lamberg; 20. Economic change and the national question in twentieth-century Russia: the enterprise level Andrej Yudanov; Index.