Abstract
AbstractThe article looks at nationalism, war and defeat from a history of emotions perspective. It frames nationalism as a political programme and mindset that enlists emotions of belonging and solidarity, but also fear, anger, hatred and contempt. Investigating the role and experience of wars within nationalist emotional economies, the article mainly focuses on the power of national honour to integrate and involve people of all classes, races and genders. By drawing on honour's opposite, shame, it then analyses stories of defeat in terms of what they tell us about the construction and experience of humiliation. Timewise, the article covers the ‘age of nationalism’, that is the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular reference to the First World War. The case studies mostly concern Central and Western Europe, and chiefly France and Germany.
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