Region and state in nineteenth century Europe. Nation-building, regional identities and separatism

Abstract

scale. While this is a thought-provoking and useful piece, and which follows from the editors’ opening contributions, it does rather stand alone from the core chapters that precede it. Overall, this useful, informative and accessible collection succeeds in making us more aware of the many ways in which national identity is negotiated within and across spatial scales and how those spaces themselves are never neatly defined or separate. The various contributions show that multilayered national identities entail both looking forward while simultaneously harking back to capture ideas of national authenticity with which people can somehow identify. In so doing, the national co-exists both alongside and above other local or regional identities.