Liberty and the Search for Identity ed. by Iván Zoltán Denes

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Denes, Ivan Zoltan, Author.

Contributor:

Denes, Iván Zoltán

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberalism--Europe--History--Case studies.

Liberalism.

Nationalism--Europe--History--Case studies.

Nationalism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (526 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Budapest Central European Univ. Press 2006

Summary:

Liberalism was not only the first modern ideology, it was also the first secular movement to have an international presence. The scholarly articles in this collection, skillfully edited by Iván Zoltán Dénes, examine liberal ideas and movements from Scotland to the Ottoman Empire. The volume seeks to uncover and analyze various relationships between liberalisms and nationalisms, national identities and modernity concepts, nations and empires, nation-states and nationalities, traditions and modernities, images of the self and the others, modernization strategies and identity creations. This volume provides an important historical analysis that is essential toward understanding the questions and motivations of liberalism in the European Union today. This is, therefore, a timely contribution to both historiography and contemporary politics.

Contents:

Scotland and England: diverging political discourses / David McCrone

Radical liberalism and nationalism in mid-Victorian Scotland / Richard J. Finlay

Dutch liberals and nineteenth-century national traditions / Henk te Velde

Liberal nationalism and modern regional identity: revolutionary Belgium, 1786-1830 / Janet Polasky

Unity or liberty? German liberalism founding an empire, 1850-1879

Gábor Erodődy

Switzerland: a European model of liberal nationalism? / Albert Tanner

The identity problems of the Austro-German liberals / Vilmos Heiszler

Political vocabularies of the Hungarian liberals and conservatives before 1848 / Iván Zoltán Dénes

The liberalism of the Hungarian nobility, 1825-1910 / Miklós Szabó

Marginal or central? the place of the liberal tradition in nineteenth-century Polish history / Maciej Janowski

Czech liberalism, 1848-1918 / Otto Urban

The inherent burden of Russian liberalism / Miklós Kun

Empire and nation in Russian liberal thought / Alexander Semyonov

The value system of Serb liberalism / Imre Ress

Building the state from the roof down: varieties of Romanian liberal nationalism / Daniel Barbu, Cristian Preda

The interesting anomaly of Balkan liberalism / Diana Mishkova

In defiance of history: liberal and national attributes of the Ottoman-Turkish path to modernity / Eyüp Özveren.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-72050-1

963-386-363-5

9781003720508

OCLC:

1249474133