Writing the History of Nationalism

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute of Social Movements and the House for the History of the Ruhr at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He is the author of Germany: Inventing the Nation (Bloomsbury, 2004) and the editor, along with Kevin Passmore and Heiko Feldner, of Writing History: Theory and Practice (Bloomsbury, 2nd Ed., 2010).Eric Storm is Senior Lecturer in European History at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is the author of The Culture of Regionalism: Art, Architecture and International Exhibitions in France, Germany and Spain, 1890-1939 (2010). He is also the co-editor, along with Xosé M. Núñez Seixas, of Regionalism and Modern Europe (Bloomsbury, 2018).

An incisive and illuminating exploration of the ways in which nationalism and national identity have been analyzed, theorized and written about. Written by experts in the field, this collection will doubtless make a valuable intervention into nationalism studies.

• 1. Introduction, Stefan Berger (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) and Eric Storm (Leiden University, The Netherlands)2. Nationalism in Historiography: The Pitfalls of Methodology, Stefan Berger (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)3. Modernisation Theories, John Breuilly (London School of Economics, UK)4. Marxism, Miroslav Hroch (Charles University, Czech Republic)5. The Perennialist View, Aviel Roshwald (Georgetown University, USA)6. The Cultural Turn and Poststructuralism, Gabriella Elgenius (University of Oxford, UK)7. Constructivism, Christian Wicke (Utretch University, The Netherlands)8. Psycho-analytical Approaches, Steven Mock (Centre for International Governance Innovation, Canada)9. Postcolonialism, Sanjay Seth (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)10. Gender Approaches, Elizabeth Vlossak (Brock University, Canada)11. The Spatial Turn, Eric Storm (Leiden University, The Netherlands)12. The Global Turn, Matthias Middell (University of Leipzig, Germany)Index