Liberty and the Search for Identity
Liberal Nationalisms and the Legacy of Empires
The editor:
Iván Zoltán Dénes is historian
of ideas, has published seven books (including four
monographs), several scholarly articles, edited and
contributed in nine books, was awarded by the British
Academy, the Fulbright Association, the International
Exchange of Scholars, the Netherlands Institute for
Advanced Study scholarships for studying. He is founder
and president of the István Bibó Center
for Advanced Studies, Budapest, and an elected member
of the Academia Europaea, London.
Liberalism was not only the first modern ideology,
it was also the first secular movement to have an international
presence. The scholarly articles in this collection,
skillfully edited by Iván Zoltán Dénes,
examine liberal ideas and movements from Scotland to
the Ottoman Empire. The volume seeks to uncover and
analyze various relationships between liberalisms and
nationalisms, national identities and modernity concepts,
nations and empires, nation-states and nationalities,
traditions and modernities, images of the self and the
others, modernization strategies and identity creations.
This volume provides an important historical analysis
that is essential toward understanding the questions
and motivations of liberalism in the European Union
today. This is, therefore, a timely contribution to
both historiography and contemporary politics.
"This volume is a monumental undertaking. For
that and for his valuable introduction to the volume,
the editor deserves a great deal of credit. His attention
to the ambiguous relationship between liberalism and
nationalism is the historically appropriate approach.
Generally, during the first half of the nineteenth century,
liberalism and nationalism were mutually reinforcing;
but by the second half of the century--and increasingly
by the twentieth century--the concept of national unity
could and did come into conflict with the liberal idea
of pluralism, as did nationalist exclusivity with the
idea of liberal tolerance. At the same time, the relationship
between liberalism and nationalism was, by its very
ambiguity, replete with bewildering variations and subtle
nuances; and the rich and diverse material of the essays
in the book seems to prove this point". - Austrian
History Yearbook
Contents
Micheal Freeden: Foreword; Editor's Preface;
Iván Zoltán Dénes: Liberal
Nationalisms: An Ambiguous Relationship; I. Western
Europe 1. David McCrone: Scotland and England:
Diverging Political Discourses; 2. Richard Finlay:
Radical Liberalism and Nationalism in Mid-Victorian
Scotland; 3. Henk te Velde: Dutch Liberals and
Nineteenth-Century National Traditions; 4. Janet
Polasky: The Belgian Revolutions, 1786-1830;
II. Central Europe 1. Gábor Erdõdy:
Unity or Liberty? German Liberalism Founding an Empire,
1850-79; 2. Albert Tanner: Switzerland: A European
Model of Liberal Nationalism?; 3. Vilmos Heiszler:
The Identity Problems of the Austro-German Liberals;
4. Iván Zoltán Dénes: Political
Vocabulary of the Hungarian Liberals and Conservatives,
1790-1848; 5. Miklós Szabó: The
Liberalism of the Hungarian Nobility (1825-1910); 6.
Maciej Janowski: Marginal or Central? The Place
of the Liberal Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Polish
History; 7. Otto Urban: Czech Liberalism, 1848-1918;
III. Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Southern Europe
1. Miklós Kun: The Inherent Burden
of Russian Liberalism; 2. Alexander Semyonov:
The Problem of Empire and Nation in Liberal Thought
In Late Imperial Russia; 3. Imre Ress: The Value
System of Serb Liberalism; 4. Diana Mishkova:
The Interesting Anomaly of Balkan Liberalism; 5. Eyüp
Özveren: In Defiance of History: Liberal and
National Attributes of the Ottoman-Turkish Road to Modernity;
Conclusion; Index
2006
525 pages
ISBN 978-963-7326-44-8 cloth $55.95 / €46.95 /
£37.00
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