Emotions and Everyday Nationalism in Modern European History

Introduction: emotions and everyday nationalism in modern European history

1. Feeling nationhood while telling lives: ego-documents, emotions and national character during the Age of Revolutions

2. So close and yet so far: degrees of emotional proximity in pauper letters to Dutch national power holders around 1800

3. ‘Lou tresor dóu Felibrige’: an Occitan dictionary and its emotional potential for readers

4. Learning to love: embodied practices of patriotism in the Belgian nineteenth-century classroom (and beyond)

5. Performing and remembering personal nationalism among workers in late Russian Poland

6. In search of the true Italy: emotional practices and the nation in Fiume 1919/1920

7. Bringing out the dead: mass funerals, cult of death and the emotional dimension of nationhood in Romanian interwar fascism

8. Feeling the fatherland: Finnish soldiers’ lyrical attachments to the nation during the Second World War

9. Emotional communities and the reconstruction of emotional bonds to alien territories: the nationalization of the Polish ‘Recovered Territories’ after 1945

Conclusions: national(ized) emotions from below