Conflict, Co-existence, Nationalism and Democracy in Modern Europe

Editor(s) Robert Stradling,Scott Newton,David Bates

Language: English

Genre(s): Politics

  • October 1997 · 208 pages ·216x138mm

  • · Hardback - 9780708314043

About The Book

This volume examines one of the central political questions of the modern world, the uneasy and often violent relationship between the forces of nationalism and democracy. This subject was one of lifelong interest to the late Professor Harry Hearder of University of Wales, Cardiff, to whom the book is dedicated. The focus is on the nation-states of western Europe during the period 1985-1970. Much of the content explores varieties of conflict and compromise between these two 'cultures, ' which had in many aspects a contradictory dynamic, but which nevertheless shared some basic aspirations, and often contrived to coexist, both on the national and international level.

Contents

Nationalism, democracy and varieties of patriotism; the Lucifer of music - Rossini and German music nationalism; administering the constitutional pill - Britain and the Italian nationality question 1850-61; Europe's quest for international peace 1870-1914; Joseph Chamberlain and tariff reform; Welsh nationalism and the problem of democracy 1847-1945; history and the triumph of art - Manuel Azana's vison of Spanish democracy, 1847-1945, Robert Stradling; the myths of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, Paul Preston; primitive rebels in Spain - historians and the anarchist phenomenon, Eddie May; Harry Hearder - an appreciation, David Bates.

About the Editor(s)

Author(s): Robert Stradling

Professor Robert Stradling is Emeritus Professor of History at Cardiff University.

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