States, Nations and Nationalism (Making of Europe)

By Hagen Schulze

Book Overview

Excerpt: ... her and hear her talk, that Bettina von Arnim says in her correspondence with Goethe: "The gentlemen stood around the table and planted themselves behind us, elbowing one another. They leaned quite over me, and I said in French, 'Your adorers quite suffocate me.'" While in Germany, her eldest son, then seventeen, had an interview with Bonaparte about the return of his mother. "Your mother," said Napoleon, "could not be six months in Paris before I should be compelled to send her to Bic

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631196331
• ISBN13: 9780631196334
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Great Dimensions and Encyclopedic Coverage

Le Goff is well-known as an heir of the Annalist School in France. Keeping the reputation of the discipline, he attempted to trace back the origins of nationalism at the perspective of a great historical trend. His elaboration and collection of historical materials are excellent. And the book undoubtedly provides its readers with a sufficiently broad picture of the medieval sources of nationalism. It stands out of other literatures in this field by its upstreaming to the Middle Age, instead of stressing France and England only and mainly dealing with 18/ 19th century.