Region and state in nineteenth-century Europe: nation-building, regional identities and separatism

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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction J.Augusteijn & E.Storm PART I: TRANSNATIONAL Historiographical Approaches to Sub-national Identities in Europe: A Reappraisal and some Suggestions X-M.Nunez The Birth of Regionalism and the Crisis of Reason: France, Germany and Spain E.Storm PART II: CENTRALISED NATION-STATES National Diversity, Regionalism and Decentralism in France T.Baycroft Regionalism in Italy: a Critique S.Cavazzo PART III: CONTINENTAL EMPIRES Regionalism, Federalism and Nationalism in the German Empire S.Weichlein How to run a multilingual society: Statehood, administration and regional dynamics in Austria-Hungary, 1867-1914 P.Haslinger PART IV: REGION, NATION, EMPIRE The Empire, the Nation, and the Homelands: Nineteenth-Century Spain's National Idea J.Fradera 'A Mere Geographical Expression'? Scotland and Scottish Identity, c. 1890-1914 A.Newby PART V: COMPETING REGIONAL MOVEMENTS The Gaelic and the Northumbrian: Separatism and Regionalism in the UK, 1890-1920 R.Colls Irish Nationalism and Unionism between State, Region and Nation J.Augusteijn Nationalist versus Regionalist? The Flemish and Walloon movements in Belle Epoque Belgium M.Van Ginderachter PART VI: LANGUAGE AND RELIGION The Consequences of Transport by Steam: Dutch Nationalism and Frisian Regionalism in the Nineteenth Century G.Jensma Inadvertent Allies: Catholicism and Regionalism in a German-Polish Borderland J.Bjork Concluding Remarks J.Augusteijn & E.Storm Index