Contents

pp 5-8

The Roots of Nationalism: Introduction

pp 9-28

Part One - The Modernist Paradigm Contested

pp 29-30

1 - Premodern Nations, National Identities, National Sentiments and National Solidarity

pp 31-46

2 - Vanishing Primordialism: Literature, History and the Public

pp 47-66

3 - Revolutionary France and the Origins of Nationalism: An Old Problem Revisited

pp 67-84

Part Two - The Genealogy of National Identity

pp 85-86

4 - The Chronicler’s Background: Historical Discourse and National Identity in Early Modern Spain

pp 87-108

5 - Arngrímur Jónsson and the Mapping of Iceland

pp 109-134

6 - The Low Countries: Constitution, Nationhood and Character According to Hugo Grotius

pp 135-152

7 - A Russia Born of War

pp 153-166

8 - Exiled Trojans or the Sons of Gomer: Wales’s Origins in the long Eighteenth Century

pp 167-182

Part Three - Negative Mirror Imaging

pp 183-184

9 - Defining the Nation, Defending the Nation: the Spanish Apologetic Discourse during the Twelve Years’ Truce (1609-1621)

pp 185-198

10 - Negative Mirror Images in Anglo-Dutch Relations, 1650-1674

pp 199-216

11 - Comparing Ruins: National Trauma in Dutch Travel Accounts of the Seventeenth Century

pp 217-232

Part Four - Maps, Language and Canonisation

pp 233-234

12 - The Roots of Modern Hungarian Nationalism: A Case Study and a Research Agenda

pp 235-250

13 - Preserving the Past and Constructing a Canon: Defining National Taste and Tradition in an Eighteenth-Century Cabinet of Literary Curiosities

pp 251-270

14 - Emergent Nationalism in European Maps of the Eighteenth Century

pp 271-288

Part Five - Nation in the Age of Revolution

pp 289-290

15 - ‘Qu’allons-nous devenir?’: Belgian National Identity in the Age of Revolution

pp 291-308

16 - Singing the Nation: Protest Songs and National Thought in the Netherlands During the Napoleonic Annexation (1810-1813)

pp 309-328

List of Illustrations

pp 329-332

List of Contributors

pp 333-336

Index

pp 337-341