Imagining nations
Explores concepts of nationhood. The coverage includes narratives and nationality in 19th-century Ireland; "gothic feminism" and British historians; German nationalism and historiography; mapping national identities; science and nationhood; and Kipling on gender, art and empire.
Print Book, English, 1998
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, Manchester, New York, 1998
Kongress York 1995
x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780719051159, 9780719054600, 0719051150, 0719054605
38048242
Introduction / Geoffrey Cubitt
Part I: Conceptualising nationality
Beyond the liberal idea of the nation / Nicholas Stargardt
Part II: The nation in time
Storylines: narratives and nationality in nineteenth-century Ireland / Roy Foster
Tacitus engendered: 'Gothic feminism' and British histories, c. 1750-1800 / Jane Rendall
The redeeming Teuton: nineteenth-century notions of the 'Germanic' in England and Germany / Maike Oergel
Paving the 'peculiar path': German nationalism and historiography since Ranke / Peter Lambert
Part III: The nation in space
Mapping national identities: the culture of cartography, with particular reference to the Ordinance Survey / Stephen Daniels
'All ocean is her own': the image of the sea and the identity of the maritime nation in eighteenth-century British art / Geoff Quilley
Border crossings: Cornwall and the English (imagi)nation / James Vernon
'What should they know of England who only England know?': Kipling on the boundaries of gender, art and empire / Joanna de Groot
Part IV: The inventory of nationhood
Science and nationhood: cultures of imagined communities / Ludmilla Jordanova
Imagining national economies: national and international economic statistics, 1900-1950 / J. Adam Tooze
Money and nationalism / Marcia Pointon