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The everyday nationalism of workers : a social history of modern Belgium /

In this book, Maarten Van Ginderachter investigates the relationship between working-class identities, socialist politics, ethnicity and nationhood in modern Europe. This new contribution to nationalism studies challenges the dominant view of nationalism as the result of modernization as well as the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ginderachter, Maarten Van (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2019]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : workers into Belgians, Flemings, and Walloons
  • A socialist pillar of a hyper-liberal state
  • Voting the nation
  • Nationalist celebrations and mass entertainment
  • An anti-militaristic state in militaristic times
  • The royal and colonial paradox
  • Schooling the nation
  • Encounters with the Belgian flag and the national anthem
  • Proletarian tweets
  • Language, the Flemish movement, and the nation
  • Epilogue : the First World War.