The formation of national elites
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The formation of national elites
（Comparative studies on governments and non-dominant ethnic groups in Europe, 1850-1940, v. 6）
New York University Press , Dartmouth, c1992
- : us
- : uk
Available at 28 libraries
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"European Science Foundation."
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Following the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars the creation and consolidation of nation states became one of the overriding issues of European politics. It dominated the actions and aspirations of politicians and peoples throughout the 19th century and was a major cause of the increasingly disastrous conflicts towards the turn of the century, culminating in the First - and on a different scale - the Second World War. At the same time as large states were coming into being some, peoples and nations lost the degree of statehood they had enjoyed earlier in their history, some groups and minorities were neglected in the process of national self-affirmation, some territories and fragmented sections became an issue of dispute and conflict between neighbouring countries and some minorities and immigrant communities became detached from their home territory.
This is one in a series of eight books, published in associatiion with the European Science Foundation, which looks at the problems assoiated with ethnic groups and minorities over a time span of a hundred years, from the middle of the 19th century to the beginning of the Second World War, ie the peak years for national conflicts in Europe.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Case studies: the Poles in the Grand Duchy of Poznan 1850-1914
- Ireland's Catholics in the British State 1850-1914
- the Czechs 1840-1900
- the Ukrainians in the Russian Empire 1860-1914
- the Catalans within the Spanish Monarchy from the middle of the 19th to the beginnings of the 20th century
- the Macedonians in the Ottoman Empire 1878-1912
- the Germans in the Duchy of Schleswig before 1864
- the German minority in North Schleswig 1920-1933
- the Danes in Schleswig from the national awakening to 1933. Part 2 Selected problems in comparative perspective: social and territorial characteristics in the composition of the leading groups of national movements
- the role of institutions of higher and secondary learning
- national organizations
- channels of communication
- historical consciousness and historical myths.
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