Table of Contents

Contents: Preface; Introduction, Atsuko Ichijo and Willfried Spohn; A balancing act: British state and nation formation and 'Europe', Atsuko Ichijo; Germany: from Kulturnation to Europeanization?, Michael Minkenberg; Austria: from Habsburg empire to a small nation in Europe, Willfried Spohn; A European Spain: the recovery of Spanish self-esteem and international prestige, Pablo Jáuregui and Antonia M. Ruiz-Jiménez; Italy and Europe: internal others and external challenges to national identity, Anna Triandafyllidou; Modern Greece: a profile of a strained identity, Nikos Kokosalakis and Iordanis Psimmenos; Nation, state and national identity in modern Hungary, Paszkál Kiss and György Hunyady; Czech Republic: nation formation and Europe, Karel KubiÅ¡, Vlasta KubiÅ¡ová, Karolína Ruzicková, and Michael Voríšek; Europe and the formation of the Polish state, nation, and national identity, Krystyna Romaniszyn; Index.