Emotions and Everyday Nationalism in Modern European History

by Andreas Stynen (Editor), Maarten Van Ginderachter (Editor), Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138354296
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/04/2020
Series:	Routledge Studies in Modern European History
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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