The origins of nationalism [electronic resource] : an alternative history from ancient Rome to early modern Germany / Caspar Hirschi.
Hirschi, Caspar.
2012
JC311 .H572 2012eb
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Title The origins of nationalism [electronic resource] : an alternative history from ancient Rome to early modern Germany / Caspar Hirschi.
Author Hirschi, Caspar.
ISBN 9781139185400 (electronic bk.)
9780521764117
9780521747905 (pbk.)
Imprint Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 241 p.) : ill.
Call Number JC311 .H572 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.5409
Summary "In this wide-ranging work, Caspar Hirschi offers new perspectives on the origins of nationalism and the formation of European nations. Based on extensive study of written and visual sources dating from the ancient to the early modern period, the author re-integrates the history of pre-modern Europe into the study of nationalism, describing it as an unintended and unavoidable consequence of the legacy of Roman imperialism in the Middle Ages. Hirschi identifies the earliest nationalists among Renaissance humanists, exploring their public roles and ambitions to offer new insight into the history of political scholarship in Europe and arguing that their adoption of ancient role models produced massive contradictions between their self-image and political function. This book demonstrates that only through understanding the development of the politics, scholarship and art of pre-modern Europe can we fully grasp the global power of nationalism in a modern political context"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. Introduction
2. The modernist paradigm: strengths and weaknesses
3. Foundations of a new nationalism theory
4. Killing and dying for love: the common fatherland
5. Competing for honour: the making of nations in late medieval Europe
6. The nationalist transformation of borders and languages
7. Humanist nationalism
8. A German Emperor for the German people
9. Nation and denomination
10. Conclusion.

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