First World War and the Nationality Question in Europe

Xosé M. Núñez Seixas, Ph. D. (EUI Florence, 1992), is Professor of Modern History at the University of Santiago de Compostela, and has also taught at Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich. He has extensively published on comparative nationalism, migrations and the cultural history of war. Recent publications include (with E. Storm, ed.) Regionalism and Modern Europe (London, 2018).

• List of Figures1Introduction: the First World War and the Nationality Question: From Local to Glocal PerspectivesXosé M. Núñez SeixasPart 1: The First World War, Transnational Action and the Principle of Nationality2Cultural Mobility and Political Mobilization: Transnational Dynamics, National ActionJoep Leerssen3Wilson’s Unexpected Friends: The Transnational Impact of the First World War on Western European Nationalist MovementsXosé M. Núñez Seixas4Nationalizing an Empire: The Bolsheviks, the Nationality Question, and Policies of Indigenization in the Soviet Union (1917–1927)Malte Rolf5Federalism in Multinational States: Otto Bauer's TheoryRamón Máiz6New Worlds Tackling on Side-tracks: The National Concepts of T.G. Masaryk and Oszkár Jászi during the First World War (1914–1919)Bence BariPart 2: Local Dynamics7Micro-Nationalisms in Western Europe in the Wake of the First World WarFrancesca Zantedeschi8The Language Brotherhoods: European Echoes in the Development of Galician Nationalism (1916–1923)Ramón Villares9The Galician Language Brotherhoods and Minority Languages in Europe during the First World WarJohannes KabatekPart 3: The Legacy of the First World War and the Nationality Question10The Impact of the First World War on the (Re-)Shaping of National Histories on EuropeStefan Berger11From Nationalities to Minorities? The Transnational Debate on the Minority Protection System of the League of Nations, and Its PredecessorsStefan Dyroff12Agrarian Movements, the National Question, and Democracy in Europe, 1880–1945Lourenzo Fernández-Prieto and Miguel CaboIndex

"This book offers a broader perspective on how “nationality” became embedded in modern politics in much the same way as all “isms”: through, as Núñez Siexes noted, the identification of local causes and concerns with increasingly globalized currents of thought and lines of argument, and then the (re)localization of all the whole processsomeplace else." – Matthew Hall, in: H-Soz-Kult, 22 December 2022