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Charismatic Nations - Joep Leerssen

Charismatic Nations

A Cultural History of Nationalism in Europe from 1800 to the Present

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Buch | Hardcover
400 Seiten
2026
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-66715-9 (ISBN)
CHF 69,80 inkl. MwSt
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This gripping history offers a unique understanding of the pervasive influence of nationalism in both politics and culture, from the period of romanticism to present-day populism. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
At the core of nationalism, the nation has always been defined and celebrated as a fundamentally cultural community. This pioneering cultural history shows how artists and intellectuals since the days of Napoleon have celebrated and taken inspiration from an idealized nationality, and how this in turn has informed and influenced social and political nationalism. The book brings together tell-tale examples from across the entire European continent, from Dublin and Barcelona to Istanbul and Helsinki, and from cultural fields that include literature, painting, music, sports, world fairs and cinema as well as intellectual history. Charismatic Nations offers unique insights into how the unobtrusive soft power of nationally-inspired culture interacts with nationalism as a hard-edged political agenda. It demonstrates how, thanks to its pervasive cultural and 'unpolitical' presence, nationalism can shape-shift between romantic insurgency and nativist populism. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Joep Leerssen was educated in the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland and Canada and held the chair of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam until 2022. His award-winning work on the comparative history of cultural nationalism (National Thought in Europe, the Encyclopaedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe) is widely authoritative.

Part I. Memory and Power: 1. The romantic spell; 2. Becoming something, unmaking empires; Part II. Romancing the Nation: 3. Romantic prophets: inspired poets inspiring people; 4. Manuscripts found in the attic; 5. Ancestral voices; 6. Languages, states, races; 7. History related; 8. The image and the presence; 9. In tune: concerts, choirs; Part III. Adapting to Modernity: 10. People in the present; 11. Culture mobilized; 12. The long tail.

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