scholarly journals Introduction: Thinking Beyond Europe’s Cultural Borders

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 358-364
Author(s):  
Mats Andrèn
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
European History ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Nation State ◽  
European Nation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Modern European History

Cultural borders play a significant part in modern European history as well as in the present. This Focus has been chosen in order to enhance reflections on the transcendence of cultural borders; how the crossing is conducted, why we want to move beyond cultural borders, and what actually lies beyond them. The individual articles investigate ways to transcend borders, primarily those of the European nation state, in different genres from the nineteenth century onward. This editorial article introduces the theme of thinking beyond borders and presents the contributions to this Focus. It attempts to situate the issue of Europe´s cultural borders within European history by delving into three relevant themes: the cultural construction of borders, the growing number of recognized nationalities, and the practices of Europeanization.

THE THEORETICAL ORIGINS OF CATHOLIC NATIONALISM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
BORJA VILALLONGA
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Nationalist Discourse ◽  
Liberal Nationalism ◽  
European Nation ◽  
Political Theories ◽  
Tremendous Impact

Catholicism's contribution to the development of nationalist ideology, and more generally to the process of European nation building in the nineteenth century, has been neglected. Most previous work has concentrated instead on varieties of liberal nationalism. In fact, Catholic intellectuals forged a whole nationalist discourse, but from traditional-conservative and orthodox doctrine. This essay charts a transnational path through Latin European countries, whose thinkers pioneered the theoretical development of Catholic nationalism. The Latin countries–France, Italy, and Spain, especially–were the homeland of Catholicism and theological, philosophical, historical, and political theories originating in it had a tremendous impact on the general formation of Western nationalism. This essay examines the formation, evolution, and consolidation of Catholic nationalism through “New Catholicism,” showing how the nation-state project and modernity itself were rethought in a new conservative and Catholic form.

I. The First Wave of the Drang Nach Osten

1943 ◽  
Vol 7 (03) ◽  
pp. 129-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Dvorník
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
European History ◽  
The Urals ◽  
European Nation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Western European ◽  
Modern European History

The idea of expansion towards the East runs through the whole history of Germany like a scarlet thread, and often lends its successive phases a similarity of design and a certain consistency. The history of this expansion is one of the most fascinating epics in European history and it is the Germans themselves who started calling itDrang nach Osten, ranking the results of this drive among the greatest achievements of Germany's national past. Truth to tell, there is an audacity about thisDrang, a fierce and ominous dynamism that cannot be denied, for it created a new Germany from the Elbe to the Oder and beyond, deep into the Vistula region. No other Western European nation can boast such a feat, though in the East the Russians accomplished something similar, only on a vaster scale, when they spread out the old Russia from Kiev, Novgorod and Moscow towards the Volga, the Urals and the Siberian steppes as far as Vladivostok. It is, indeed, a dramatic and tragic turning-point in modern European history when these two nations, which developed their grandiose eastward expansion in their own independent spheres, come to a head-on crash in the present bloody and merciless struggle.

AFTER 1848: THE EUROPEAN REVOLUTION IN GOVERNMENT

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 171-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Clark
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Information Management ◽  
Public Information ◽  
High Water ◽  
European History ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Administrative Practices ◽  
High Water Mark ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACTThis paper revisits the question of the impact of the 1848 revolutions on governance and administration across the European states. Few historians would contend that the immediate post-revolutionary years saw a ‘return’ to pre-1848 conditions, but the transitions of the 1850s are usually presented as episodes within a narrative that is deemed to be specific to the respective nation-state. This paper argues that the 1850s saw a profound transformation in political and administrative practices across the continent, encompassing the emergence of new centrist political coalitions with a distinctively post-revolutionary mode of politics characterised by a technocratic vision of progress, the absorption into government of civil-society-based bodies of expertise, and changes in public information management. In short, it proposes that we need to move beyond the restrictive interpretation implied by the tenacious rubric ‘decade of reaction’ towards recognising that the 1850s were – after the Napoleonic period – the second high-water-mark in nineteenth-century political and administrative innovation across the continent. The paper argues, moreover, that these transitions took place on an authentically European basis and that they only come fully into focus when we survey the spectrum of governmental experiences across the European states. The paper closes with some reflections on the broader implications of this reappraisal for our understanding of European history in the middle and later decades of the nineteenth century.

The Structure of Feeling – Emotion Culture and National Self-Sacrifice in World Politics

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Koschut
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Construction ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Emile Durkheim ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Specific Complex ◽  
Psychological Mechanism ◽  
Political Communities ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Beliefs About Emotions ◽  
Cultural Structure

Why do individuals sacrifice themselves to defend a nation-state? This article emphasises the link between emotion and culture by investigating the affective reproduction of culture in world politics. Building on the tradition of Émile Durkheim, it introduces the concept of emotion culture to IR. Emotion cultures are understood as the culture-specific complex of emotion vocabularies, feeling rules, and beliefs about emotions and their appropriate expression that facilitates the cultural construction of political communities, such as the nation-state. It is argued that emotions provide a socio-psychological mechanism by which culture moves individuals to defend a nation-state, especially in times of war. By emotionally investing in the cultural structure of a nation-state, the individual aligns him/herself with a powerful cultural script, which then dominates over other available scripts. The argument is empirically illustrated by the case of the so-called Japanese kamikaze pilots.

scholarly journals The Nation and Its Deserters: Conscription in Mehmed Ali's Egypt

1998 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaled Fahmy
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
State Building ◽  
European History ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Past ◽  
War Effort ◽  
Public Lecture ◽  
Modern Nation State

“Could a Nation, in any true sense of the word, really be born without war?” Such was the question raised by Michael Howard, the eminent Oxford military historian in a public lecture delivered on the topic of “War and the Nation State”. Looking generally at European history in the past two centuries he argued that war was indeed central for the appearance of the modern nation-state and that modern armies are somehow intimately linked to the rise of nationalism. During the first half of the nineteenth century this argument could very well be applied to Egypt. Having been incorporated in the Ottoman Empire for more than two and a half centuries, Egypt, by the beginning the nineteenth century and mostly through an unprecedented war effort that was concurrent and often synonymous with state-building, had come to play an increasingly independent role on the international plane.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document