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Towards Modern Nationhood: Wales and Slovenia in Comparison, c.1750–1918

Autor Robin Okey
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 feb 2024
A comparative history of nineteenth-century nationalist movements in Wales and Slovenia.
 
Towards Modern Nationhood is a comparative history of nineteenth-century national movements in two stateless countries, Wales and Slovenia. While these movements are often contrasted, Robin Okey reveals the shared strategies behind both western and eastern European nationalists. In both cases, activists organized around local identities that were legible to their occupiers. The Habsburg Empire respected multilingualism, so Slovenians mobilized behind their language. The British Empire respected religious pluralism, so the Welsh mobilized behind nonconformity. Ultimately, the stories of these two national movements make plain the surprising efficacy of “soft power” in the form of local traditions, languages, and religion.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781786839312
ISBN-10: 1786839318
Pagini: 344
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: University of Wales Press
Colecția University of Wales Press

Notă biografică

Robin Okey is an emeritus professor of history at Warwick University.

Cuprins

Preface

Chapter 1 – Wales and the Slovene Lands: The Background

Chapter 2 – Awakenings, c. 1750-1815

Chapter 3 – Towards a Turning Point, Wales and Slovenia c. 1815-1847

Chapter 4 – The Parting of the Ways:1847-48

Chapter 5 – The Picture Takes Shape, 1848-c. 1880

Chapter 6 – The National Movements Mature: Success and Shortfall

Chapter 7 – Culture, Consciousness and Challenge, 1880-1914

Chapter 8 – New Directions and Denoument

Conclusion

Recenzii

"An astonishing book that argues, despite much noise to the contrary, that Wales was, is and will be a nation. However, the way it became a nation differed from the continental European model, and by comparing Wales with Slovenia, Robin Okey shows that while nationalism is a singular noun it is indeed a plural experience."

"This is a brilliantly original analysis of the formation of the modern Welsh nation during the long nineteenth century. Okey presents this process in a sustained comparison with another small ethnic group, the Slovenes, and vindicates that choice by illumination of a series of similarities based on his intimate acquaintance with the history of that South Slav people. There are differences too – above all the Welsh national project, expressed through religious Nonconformity and political Liberalism as the willing associate of a hegemonic and officially monoglot Great Britain, contrasting with the Slovene equivalent which maneuvered within the troubled multilingual polity of the Habsburgs. Enhanced by Okey’s jargon-free style, this book is equally revealing in its unusual perspective on the two incongruent empires, British and Austrian, within which his story unfolds."