National indifference and the History of Nationalism in Modern Europe

Maarten Van Ginderachter is an Associate Professor at the Department of History of Antwerp University. He is the co-editor of Nationhood from below. Europe in the long nineteenth century (with Marnix Beyen, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012) and Everyday nationalism’s evidence problem (themed section of Nations and Nationalism, vol. 24, issue 3, 2018, co-edited with Jon Fox). His monograph The Everyday Nationalism of Workers: A Social History of Modern Belgium will appear with Stanford University Press in 2019.Jon Fox is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Sociology, Politics, and International Studies and Assistant Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol.

• AcknowledgementList of ContributorsIntroduction. National indifference and the history of nationalism in modern EuropeMaarten Van Ginderachter and Jon Fox Too much on their mind. Impediments and limitations of the national cultural project in nineteenth-century Belgium Tom VerschaffelFrom national indifference to national commitment and back: the case of the Trentine POWS in Russia during the First World WarSimone A. BellezzaLost in transition? The Habsburg legacy, state- and nation-building, and the new fascist order in the Upper AdriaticMarco BrescianiNational indifference and the transnational corporation: the paradigm of the Bat’a CompanyZachary DoleshalBetween nationalism and indifference: the gradual elimination of indifference in interwar YugoslaviaFilip ErdeljacPaths to Frenchness: national indifference and the return of Alsace to France, 1919-1939Alison CarrolBeyond politics: national indifference as everyday ethnicity Gábor EgryNational indifference, statistics, and the constructivist paradigm: the case of the "Tutejsi" (‘the people from here’) in interwar Polish censusesMorgane LabbéInstrumental nationalism in Upper SilesiaBrendan Karch‘I have removed the boundaries of nations’: nation switching and the Roman Catholic Church during and after the Second World WarJim Bjork‘Citizen of the Soviet Union – it sounds dignified’. Letter writing, nationalities policy, and identity in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union Anna WhittingtonConclusion: national indifference and the history of nationalism in modern Europe Jon Fox, Maarten Van Ginderachter and James M. BrophyIndex