Nationalism and the State

by John Breuilly

Overview

Penny politics offers a new way to read early Victorian popular fiction such as Jack Sheppard, Sweeney Todd, and The Mysteries of London. It locates forms of radical discourse in the popular literature that emerged simultaneously with Brittan’s longest and most significant people’s movement. It listens for echoes of Chartist fiction in popular fiction. The book rethinks the relationship between the popular and political, understanding that radical politics had popular appeal and that the lines separating a genuine radicalism from commercial success are complicated and never absolute. With archival work into Newgate calendars and Chartist periodicals, as well as media history and culture, it brings together histories of the popular and political so as to rewrite the radical canon.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780719038006
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	11/25/1993
Edition description:	2nd ed
Pages:	492
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.99(d)

About the Author

John Breuilly is senior lecturer in history at the University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
Introduction
Pt. I: Social and intellectual bases of nationalism
1: Social bases of nationalist politics
2: Sources and forms of nationalist ideology
Pt. II: Varieties of nationalism (i) In a world without nation-states
3: Prelude to nationalism: religious and national oppositions in early modern Europe
4: Unification nationalism in nineteenth-century Europe
5: Separatist nationalism in nineteenth-century Europe
6: Separatist nationalism in the Arabworld
7: Approaches to anti-colonial nationalism
8: Anti-colonial nationalism: two case studies
9: Sub-nationalism in colonial states
10: The colonial state and nationalism
11: Reform nationalism outside Europe
Pt. III: Varieties of nationalism (ii) In a world of nation-states
12: Separatist nationalism in the new nation-states
13: Nation-building and nationalism in the new states
14: Unification nationalism and the new nation-states
15: Reform nationalism in the old nation-states
16: Separatist nationalism in the developed nation-states
17: Nationalism in contemporary east-central Europe
Conclusion
Appendix: Approaches to nationalism
Chronologies for the major case studies
Bibliographical essay
Index