Nationhood from Below

MARNIX BEYEN Associate Professor of History, Antwerp University, BelgiumMAARTEN VAN GINDERACHTER Associate Professor of History, Antwerp University, Belgium JAMES BROPHY Professor of Modern European History, University of Delaware, USAJOHN BREUILLY Professor of Nationalism and Ethnicity, London School of Economics, UK MIGUEL CABO Senior Lecturer of Contemporary and American History, University of Santiago de Compostela, SpainJEAN-FRANCOIS CHANET Professor of Nineteenth Century History, Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, FranceLAURENCE COLE Lecturer in Modern European History, University of East Anglia, UKFERNANDO MOLINA 'Ramon y Cajal' Research Scholar of Contemporary History, University of the Basque Country, SpainILARIA PORCIANI Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and the History of Historiography, University of Bologna, ItalyMIIKA TERVONEN European University Institute, Finland SAARTJE VANDEN BORRE University of Leuven, Belgium ANTOON VRINTS Post-doctoral Research Fellow of History, Ghent University, BelgiumTOM VERSCHAFFEL Associate Professor of History, University of Leuven, Belgium

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors PART I: INTRODUCTORY SECTION Introduction: Writing the Mass into a Mass Phenomenon; M.Beyen  & M.Van Ginderachter What Does it Mean to Say that Nationalism is 'Popular'?; J.Breuilly PART II: HISTORIOGRAPHIC SURVEYS An Inconvenient Nation. Nation Building and National Identity in Modern Spain. The Historiographical Debate; F.Molina  & M.Cabo On the Uses and Abuses of Nationalism from Below. A Few Notes on Italy; I.Porciani  Differentiation or Indifference? Changing Perspectives on National Identification in the Austrian Half of the Habsburg Monarchy; L.Cole Nationhood from Below. Some Historiographic Notes on Great Britain, France and Germany in the Long Nineteenth Century; M.Van Ginderachter PART III: CASE STUDIES 'The Domestic Other': The Nation and its Outsiders: the 'Gypsy Question' and Peasant Nationalism in Finland, c. 1863-1900; M.Tervonen Which Political Nation? Soft Borders and Popular Nationhood in the Rhineland, 1800-1850; J.Brophy 'The External Other': Between or Without Nations. Multiple Identifications Among Belgian Migrants in Lille, Northern France, 1850-1900; S.Vanden Borre  & T.Verschaffel  'From the Wound a Flower Grows'. A Re-Examination of French Patriotism in the Face of the Franco-Prussian War; J.Chanet  'All the Butter in the Country Belongs to Us, Belgians'. Well-Being and Lower Class National Identification in Belgium during the First World War; A.Vrints General Conclusion. Popular Nationhood: A Companion of European Modernities; M.Beyen  & M.Van Ginderachter Index

"The volume excellently captures the tensions, contradictions, source problems, current theoretical and methodological questions and answers pertaining to nationhood from below in diverse historiographical traditions and macro-level explanatory frames. The volume as a whole provides dense insights and multiple perspectives, opening fundamental and critical views into the research laboratory of this type of history writing." (Oana Sinziana Paltineanu, European Review of History, Revue europeenne d'histoire, Vol. 21 (1), January, 2014)