Region and State in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Nation-Building, Regional Identities and Separatism

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; J.Augusteijn & E.Storm PART I: TRANSNATIONAL Historiographical Approaches to Sub-national Identities in Europe: A Reappraisal and some Suggestions; X-M.Nunez The Birth of Regionalism and the Crisis of Reason: France, Germany and Spain; E.Storm PART II: CENTRALISED NATION-STATES National Diversity, Regionalism and Decentralism in France; T.Baycroft Regionalism in Italy: a Critique; S.Cavazzo PART III: CONTINENTAL EMPIRES Regionalism, Federalism and Nationalism in the German Empire; S.Weichlein How to run a multilingual society: Statehood, administration and regional dynamics in Austria-Hungary, 1867-1914; P.Haslinger PART IV: REGION, NATION, EMPIRE The Empire, the Nation, and the Homelands: Nineteenth-Century Spain's National Idea; J.Fradera 'A Mere Geographical Expression'? Scotland and Scottish Identity, c. 1890-1914; A.Newby PART V: COMPETING REGIONAL MOVEMENTS The Gaelic and the Northumbrian: Separatism and Regionalism in the UK, 1890-1920; R.Colls Irish Nationalism and Unionism between State, Region and Nation; J.Augusteijn Nationalist versus Regionalist? The Flemish and Walloon movements in Belle Epoque Belgium; M.Van Ginderachter PART VI: LANGUAGE AND RELIGION The Consequences of Transport by Steam: Dutch Nationalism and Frisian Regionalism in the Nineteenth Century; G.Jensma Inadvertent Allies: Catholicism and Regionalism in a German-Polish Borderland; J.Bjork Concluding Remarks; J.Augusteijn & E.Storm Index