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Charismatic Nations

A Cultural History of Nationalism in Europe from 1800 to the Present

AvJoep Leerssen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

At the core of nationalism, the nation has always been defined and celebrated as a fundamentally cultural community. This pioneering cultural history shows how artists and intellectuals since the days of Napoleon have celebrated and taken inspiration from an idealized nationality, and how this in turn has informed and influenced social and political nationalism. The book brings together tell-tale examples from across the entire European continent, from Dublin and Barcelona to Istanbul and Helsinki, and from cultural fields that include literature, painting, music, sports, world fairs and cinema as well as intellectual history. Charismatic Nations offers unique insights into how the unobtrusive soft power of nationally-inspired culture interacts with nationalism as a hard-edged political agenda. It demonstrates how, thanks to its pervasive cultural and 'unpolitical' presence, nationalism can shape-shift between romantic insurgency and nativist populism. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-03-05
Mått:163 x 236 x 37 mm
Vikt:790 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:464
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009667159

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Joep Leerssen was educated in the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland and Canada and held the chair of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam until 2022. His award-winning work on the comparative history of cultural nationalism (National Thought in Europe, the Encyclopaedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe) is widely authoritative.

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'A crowning achievement. Hardly anyone else would have the knowledge and the vision to grasp this immensity of phenomena, capture their complex interrelations, process them in a comparative fashion, and, most importantly, arrange them into a single, consecutive, coherent narrative. For it is one of the greatest strengths of Charismatic Nations that it unfolds pleasantly and effortlessly while incorporating myriad aspects into a coherent landscape of intellectual and social endeavors. [...] Charismatic Nations is a real tour de force with scope and erudition that have few parallels today; it is also a joy to read.' Sándor Hites, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Literary Studies of the HUN-REN Research Centre for the Humanities

Innehållsförteckning

Part I. Memory and Power: 1. The romantic spell; 2. Becoming something, unmaking empires; Part II. Romancing the Nation: 3. Romantic prophets: inspired poets inspiring people; 4. Manuscripts found in the attic; 5. Ancestral voices; 6. Languages, states, races; 7. History related; 8. The image and the presence; 9. In tune: concerts, choirs; Part III. Adapting to Modernity: 10. People in the present; 11. Culture mobilized; 12. The long tail.