A Contested Nation: History, Memory and Nationalism in Switzerland, 1761–1891 (Past and Present Publications)

Zimmer, Oliver

ISBN 10: 0521039800 / ISBN 13: 9780521039802

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Contested Nation: History, Memory and Nationalism in Switzerland, 1761?1891 (Past and Present Publications)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521039800
• ISBN 13: 9780521039802
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Oliver Zimmer examines the ways in which the Swiss defined their national identity in the nineteenth century, in the face of a changing domestic and international background. Zimmer explores why the nation became the focus of public concern at particular historical junctures, how different social actors created and re-created Swiss nationhood, and why the Swiss embraced some definitions rather than others. Beginning in the 1760s, which witnessed the genesis of an early national movement, the book ends in the 1890s when Switzerland developed into a modern nation.

About the Author

Oliver Zimmer was educated at the University of Zurich (Lic. Phil. I) and at the London School of Economics and Political Science (Ph.D.), and he began his academic career at the University of Durham in 1999. In 2005 he took up a University Lectureship (CUF) at Oxford. Previous publications include Nationalism in Europe, 1890–1940 (2003) and Power and the Nation in European History (edited with Len Scales, Cambridge University Press, 2005).