A Contested Nation: History, Memory and Nationalism in Switzerland, 1761-1891

by Oliver Zimmer

Book Overview

Oliver Zimmer examines the ways in which the Swiss defined their national identity in the nineteenth century, in the face of a changing domestic and international background. Zimmer explores why the nation became the focus of public concern at particular historical junctures, how different social actors created and re-created Swiss nationhood, and why the Swiss embraced some definitions rather than others. Beginning in the 1760s, which witnessed the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521039800
• ISBN13: 9780521039802
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"