TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leerssen,Joseph Th
TI  - Charismatic nations: a cultural history of nationalism in Europe from 1800 to the present 
SN  - 9781009667142 (ebook)
AV  - JC201 .L44 2026
U1  - 320.54094 23
PY  - 2026///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Nationalism and literature
KW  - Nationalism and the arts
KW  - Civilization
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Feb 2026); Open Access
N2  - At the core of nationalism, the nation has always been defined and celebrated as a fundamentally cultural community. This pioneering cultural history shows how artists and intellectuals since the days of Napoleon have celebrated and taken inspiration from an idealized nationality, and how this in turn has informed and influenced social and political nationalism. The book brings together tell-tale examples from across the entire European continent, from Dublin and Barcelona to Istanbul and Helsinki, and from cultural fields that include literature, painting, music, sports, world fairs and cinema as well as intellectual history. Charismatic Nations offers unique insights into how the unobtrusive soft power of nationally-inspired culture interacts with nationalism as a hard-edged political agenda. It demonstrates how, thanks to its pervasive cultural and 'unpolitical' presence, nationalism can shape-shift between romantic insurgency and nativist populism.  This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009667142
ER  -