Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Quest for Homogeneity in Interwar Europe

Emmanuel Dalle Mulle is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. He is the author of The Nationalism of the Rich: Discourses and Strategies of Separatist Parties in Catalonia, Flanders, Northern Italy and Scotland (2017).Davide Rodogno is Full Professor of International History and Politics at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland. He is the author of Night on Earth. A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918-1930 (2021).Mona Bieling is a doctoral candidate at the Department of International History and Politics at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland, and a Landhaus Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich. Her PhD research examines how landscape changes influenced the power relations between the British, Jewish and Arab communities in Mandate Palestine (1917-1948).

This is an outstanding collection of essays on the complex relationship between minorities and nationalizing states in Interwar Europe. Most authors use a refreshing comparative, transnational or bottom-up approach, while studying the impact of Wilson’s right of self-determination in both Eastern and Western Europe

• 1. Introduction Emmanuel Dalle Mulle, Davide Rodogno, Mona Bieling (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland)Part 1 – Minorities and the Transition from Empires to Nation-States2. Making Minorities and Majorities: National Indifference and National Self Determination in Habsburg Central Europe Pieter Judson (European University Institute, Hungary)3. “Prison of the Nations?” Union and Nationality in the United Kingdom, 1870–1925 Alvin Jackson (University of Edinburgh, UK)4. Nationalism, Religion and Minorities from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey Erol Ülker (Isik University, Turkey)Part 2 – The Minority Question across Europe: Comparing Policies, Regimes and Resistance5. Assessing the ‘Paris System’: Self-Determination and Ethnic Violence in Alsace-Lorraine and Asia Minor, 1919–1923 Volker Prott (Aston University, UK)6. Sovereignty and Homogeneity: A History of Majority-Minority Relations in Interwar Western Europe Emmanuel Dalle Mulle (Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain) and Mona Bieling (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland)7. Exercising Minority Rights in New Democracies: Germans and Jews in Interwar Poland, Romania, and Latvia Marina Germane (University of Vienna, Austria)8. A Double-Edged Sword. The Political Use of National Heterogeneity in the Soviet Union during the Interwar Period Sabine Dullin (SciencesPo, France)Part 3 – Majorities and Minorities as Social Constructs: Negotiating Identity Ascription9. Nationalism and Vernacular Cosmologies: Revisiting the Concept of National Indifference and the Limits of Nationalization in the Second Polish Republic Olga Linkiewicz (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)10. Survival and Assimilation: Loyalism in the Interwar Irish Free State Ireland Brian Hughes (Mary Immaculate College, Ireland)11. Navigations of National Belonging. Legal Reintegration After the Return of Alsace to France, 1918–1939 Alison Carrol (Brunel University, UK)Part 4 – Minority Mobilization beyond the Nation-State12. Internationalist Patriots? Minority Nationalists, Ethnic Minorities and the Global Interwar Stage, 1918–1939 Xosé M. Nuñez Seixas (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) and David Smith (University of Glasgow, UK)13. Transnational Collaborations among Women’s Organizations and Questions of Minorities and Macedonia, 1925–1930 Jane Cowan (University of Sussex, UK)Coda14. The Difference Nationalism Makes: Jews and Others in the Twentieth Century Omer Bartov (Brown University, USA)NotesIndex