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A contested nation : history, memory and nationalism in Switzerland, 1761-1891 / Oliver Zimmer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zimmer, Oliver, 1964-
- Series:
- Past and present publications
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nationalism--Switzerland--History--19th century.
- Nationalism.
- History.
- Switzerland--Politics and government.
- Switzerland.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Contents:
- Introduction: History, memory, and the politics of national identity 1
- 1 Confederate identity before nationalism
- events, politics, symbols 17
- Part I Towards the cult of the nation
- 2 Dreaming of the wider fatherland
- the nation of the patriots 41
- 3 Contentious unity
- the rise and fall of an indivisible nation 80
- 4 'The nation has had her say at last' 119
- Part II The birth of the modern mass nation
- 5 'We have become a people' 163
- 6 Competing visions of the nation's past 209.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-263) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521819199
- OCLC:
- 52286615
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