Ilaria Porciani is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History and the History of Historiography at the University of Bologna. She has published widely on the history of culture, the university, historiography, nation-building and history museums. She is presently leading the Bologna team of CoHere on Food as Heritage.
Traditional feasts (the Palio in Siena), celebrations of the local patron saint (Festa del Redent... more Traditional feasts (the Palio in Siena), celebrations of the local patron saint (Festa del Redentore); events organized by long-standing charitable organizations (the Purgatory lunch in Gradoli), festivals staged by political groups (the First of May, Festa de L’Unità, or the Lega festivals), or even the replica of a 19th Century political banquet staged for the 150th jubilee of the Italian Unification provide important occasions for communities. Diverse as they are, they are all characterized by commensality and sharing of local food.
List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Introduction Institutions, Networks and ... more List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Introduction Institutions, Networks and Communities in a European Perspective J.Tollebeek & I.Porciani PART I 'Something More than a Storage Warehouse'. The Creation of National Archives T.Verschaffel Monumental Undertakings. Source Publications for the Nation D.Saxer Scholarly Communication with a Political Impetus. National Historical Journals C.M.Jorgensen The Dictionary Is Dead, Long Live the Dictionary! Biographical Collections in National Contexts M.Verga Exegi Monumentum. The Great Syntheses of National History J.Tollebeek Nations on Display. History Museums in Europe I.Porciani PART II In the Provinces. Local and Regional Learned Societies J.Chaline Wishful Thinking. Academic Competitions in National History M.Baar 'A Daily Working Group Together in One House'. Research Institutes and the National Academies of Sciences in East Central Europe F.Hadler & A.Pok Serving the Profession. National Associations of Historians G.Lingelbach & M.Vossing Places of Innovation and Exchange. The Extra-University Research Institutions for Historical Research E.Picard & G.Lingelbach Militancy and Pluralism. Party and Church Institutes of Contemporary History in Western Europe since 1945 L.Raphael Wider Connections. International Networks among European Historians J.E.Myhre PART III A New Community of Scholars. The University Professors at Work M.Moretti A Truculent Revenge. The Clergy and the Writing of National History I.Herrmann & F.Metzger Bulwark of Traditions. The European Nobility and National Historiography in the Nineteenth Century G.B.Clemens Popular Writers. Women Historians, the Academic Community and National History Writing M.O'Dowd Striving for Visibility. Nationalists in Multinational Empires and States E.Bruckmuller , N.Evans & L.R.Aulinas Living in the Past. Historians in Exile M.Mandeli?kova & I.Goddeeris Concluding Remarks: Historians and the Web I.Porciani & J.Tollebeek Selected Bibliographies Index of Persons
Questo cotributo mette in luce le caratteristiche della geografia culturale fiorentina e le modif... more Questo cotributo mette in luce le caratteristiche della geografia culturale fiorentina e le modificazioni intervenute con Firenze capitale al fine di collocare la figura di Pellegrino Artusi nello specifico contesto istituzionale e editoriale della citt\ue0 toscana che ambiva a svolgere il ruolodi Atene d' Itali
This is a Chapter of a Book edited by P. Aronsson and G. Elgenius National Museums and Nation-Bui... more This is a Chapter of a Book edited by P. Aronsson and G. Elgenius National Museums and Nation-Building in Europe 1750-2010
Traditional feasts (the Palio in Siena), celebrations of the local patron saint (Festa del Redent... more Traditional feasts (the Palio in Siena), celebrations of the local patron saint (Festa del Redentore); events organized by long-standing charitable organizations (the Purgatory lunch in Gradoli), festivals staged by political groups (the First of May, Festa de L’Unità, or the Lega festivals), or even the replica of a 19th Century political banquet staged for the 150th jubilee of the Italian Unification provide important occasions for communities. Diverse as they are, they are all characterized by commensality and sharing of local food.
List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Introduction Institutions, Networks and ... more List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Introduction Institutions, Networks and Communities in a European Perspective J.Tollebeek & I.Porciani PART I 'Something More than a Storage Warehouse'. The Creation of National Archives T.Verschaffel Monumental Undertakings. Source Publications for the Nation D.Saxer Scholarly Communication with a Political Impetus. National Historical Journals C.M.Jorgensen The Dictionary Is Dead, Long Live the Dictionary! Biographical Collections in National Contexts M.Verga Exegi Monumentum. The Great Syntheses of National History J.Tollebeek Nations on Display. History Museums in Europe I.Porciani PART II In the Provinces. Local and Regional Learned Societies J.Chaline Wishful Thinking. Academic Competitions in National History M.Baar 'A Daily Working Group Together in One House'. Research Institutes and the National Academies of Sciences in East Central Europe F.Hadler & A.Pok Serving the Profession. National Associations of Historians G.Lingelbach & M.Vossing Places of Innovation and Exchange. The Extra-University Research Institutions for Historical Research E.Picard & G.Lingelbach Militancy and Pluralism. Party and Church Institutes of Contemporary History in Western Europe since 1945 L.Raphael Wider Connections. International Networks among European Historians J.E.Myhre PART III A New Community of Scholars. The University Professors at Work M.Moretti A Truculent Revenge. The Clergy and the Writing of National History I.Herrmann & F.Metzger Bulwark of Traditions. The European Nobility and National Historiography in the Nineteenth Century G.B.Clemens Popular Writers. Women Historians, the Academic Community and National History Writing M.O'Dowd Striving for Visibility. Nationalists in Multinational Empires and States E.Bruckmuller , N.Evans & L.R.Aulinas Living in the Past. Historians in Exile M.Mandeli?kova & I.Goddeeris Concluding Remarks: Historians and the Web I.Porciani & J.Tollebeek Selected Bibliographies Index of Persons
Questo cotributo mette in luce le caratteristiche della geografia culturale fiorentina e le modif... more Questo cotributo mette in luce le caratteristiche della geografia culturale fiorentina e le modificazioni intervenute con Firenze capitale al fine di collocare la figura di Pellegrino Artusi nello specifico contesto istituzionale e editoriale della citt\ue0 toscana che ambiva a svolgere il ruolodi Atene d' Itali
This is a Chapter of a Book edited by P. Aronsson and G. Elgenius National Museums and Nation-Bui... more This is a Chapter of a Book edited by P. Aronsson and G. Elgenius National Museums and Nation-Building in Europe 1750-2010
ISBN 978-0-230-27247-7 - Basingstoke, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012
Nationalism was ubiquitous in nineteenth-century Europe. Yet, we know little about what the natio... more Nationalism was ubiquitous in nineteenth-century Europe. Yet, we know little about what the nation meant to ordinary people. In this book, both renowned historians and younger scholars try to answer this question. This book will appeal to specialists in the field but also offers helpful reading for any college and university course on nationalism.
Contains the following chapters: General Introduction: Writing the Mass into a Mass Phenomenon Beyen, Marnix and Maarten Van Ginderachter Pages 3-22 /
What Does It Mean to Say that Nationalism Is ‘Popular’? Breuilly, John Pages 23-43 /
An Inconvenient Nation: Nation-Building and National Identity in Modern Spain. The Historiographical Debate Molina, Fernando and Cabo-Villaverde Miguel Pages 47-72 /
On the Uses and Abuses of Nationalism from Below: A Few Notes on Italy Porciani, Ilaria Pages 73-95 /
Differentiation or Indifference? Changing Perspectives on National Identification in the Austrian Half of the Habsburg Monarchy Cole, Laurence Pages 96-119 /
Nationhood from Below: Some Historiographic Notes on Great Britain, France and Germany in the Long Nineteenth Century Van Ginderachter, Maarten Pages 120-136 /
The Nation and Its Outsiders: The ‘Gypsy Question’ and Peasant Nationalism in Finland, c. 1863–1900 Tervonen, Miika Pages 139-161 /
Which Political Nation? Soft Borders and Popular Nationhood in the Rhineland, 1800–1850 Brophy, James M. Pages 162-189 /
Between or Without Nations? Multiple Identifications Among Belgian Migrants in Lille, Northern France, 1850–1900 Vanden Borre, Saartje and Verschaffel, Tom Pages 193-213 /
‘From the Wound a Flower Grows’: A Re-Examination of French Patriotism in the Face of the Franco-Prussian War Chanet, Jean-François Pages 214-229 /
‘All the Butter in the Country Belongs to Us, Belgians’: Well-Being and Lower-Class National Identification in Belgium During the First World War Vrints, Antoon Pages 230-249 /
General Conclusion: Popular Nationhood — A Companion of European Modernities Beyen, Marnix and Maarten Van Ginderachter Pages 250-260
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Contains the following chapters:
General Introduction: Writing the Mass into a Mass Phenomenon
Beyen, Marnix and Maarten Van Ginderachter
Pages 3-22 /
What Does It Mean to Say that Nationalism Is ‘Popular’?
Breuilly, John
Pages 23-43 /
An Inconvenient Nation: Nation-Building and National Identity in Modern Spain. The Historiographical Debate
Molina, Fernando and Cabo-Villaverde Miguel
Pages 47-72 /
On the Uses and Abuses of Nationalism from Below: A Few Notes on Italy
Porciani, Ilaria
Pages 73-95 /
Differentiation or Indifference? Changing Perspectives on National Identification in the Austrian Half of the Habsburg Monarchy
Cole, Laurence
Pages 96-119 /
Nationhood from Below: Some Historiographic Notes on Great Britain, France and Germany in the Long Nineteenth Century
Van Ginderachter, Maarten
Pages 120-136 /
The Nation and Its Outsiders: The ‘Gypsy Question’ and Peasant Nationalism in Finland, c. 1863–1900
Tervonen, Miika
Pages 139-161 /
Which Political Nation? Soft Borders and Popular Nationhood in the Rhineland, 1800–1850
Brophy, James M.
Pages 162-189 /
Between or Without Nations? Multiple Identifications Among Belgian Migrants in Lille, Northern France, 1850–1900
Vanden Borre, Saartje and Verschaffel, Tom
Pages 193-213 /
‘From the Wound a Flower Grows’: A Re-Examination of French Patriotism in the Face of the Franco-Prussian War
Chanet, Jean-François
Pages 214-229 /
‘All the Butter in the Country Belongs to Us, Belgians’: Well-Being and Lower-Class National Identification in Belgium During the First World War
Vrints, Antoon
Pages 230-249 /
General Conclusion: Popular Nationhood — A Companion of European Modernities
Beyen, Marnix and Maarten Van Ginderachter
Pages 250-260