ABSTRACT
This volume examines how ideas of the nation influenced ordinary people, by focusing on their affective lives. Using a variety of sources, methods and cases, ranging from Spain during the age of Revolutions to post-World War II Poland, it demonstrates that emotions are integral to understanding the everyday pull of nationalism on ordinary people.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|18 pages
Feeling nationhood while telling lives
Ego-documents, emotions and national character during the Age of Revolutions
chapter 2|17 pages
So close and yet so far
Degrees of emotional proximity in pauper letters to Dutch national power holders around 1800
chapter 3|15 pages
‘Lou tresor dóu Felibrige’
An Occitan dictionary and its emotional potential for readers
chapter 4|18 pages
Learning to love
Embodied practices of patriotism in the Belgian nineteenth-century classroom (and beyond)
chapter 7|30 pages
Bringing out the dead
Mass funerals, cult of death and the emotional dimension of nationhood in Romanian interwar fascism
chapter 8|21 pages
Feeling the fatherland
Finnish soldiers’ lyrical attachments to the nation during the Second World War
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chapter 9|20 pages
Emotional communities and the reconstruction of emotional bonds to alien territories
The nationalization of the Polish ‘Recovered Territories’ after 1945
