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It is commonplace that the modern world is more international than
at any point in human history. Yet the sheer profusion of terms for
describing politics beyond the nation state-including
"international," "European," "global," "transnational" and
"cosmopolitan," among others - is but one indication of how
conceptually complex this field actually is. Taking a wide view of
internationalism(s) in Europe since the eighteenth century,
Nationalism and Internationalism Intertwined explores discourses
and practices to challenge nation-centered histories and trace the
entanglements that arise from international cooperation. A
multidisciplinary group of scholars in history, discourse studies
and digital humanities asks how internationalism has been
experienced, understood, constructed, debated and redefined across
different European political cultures as well as related to the
wider world.
Parliamentary theory, practices, discourses, and institutions
constitute a distinctively European contribution to modern
politics. Taking a broad historical perspective, this
cross-disciplinary, innovative, and rigorous collection locates the
essence of parliamentarism in four key aspects—deliberation,
representation, responsibility, and sovereignty—and explores the
different ways in which they have been contested, reshaped, and
implemented in a series of representative national and regional
case studies. As one of the first comparative studies in conceptual
history, this volume focuses on debates about the nature of
parliament and parliamentarism within and across different European
countries, representative institutions, and genres of political
discourse.
Parliamentary theory, practices, discourses, and institutions
constitute a distinctively European contribution to modern
politics. Taking a broad historical perspective, this
cross-disciplinary, innovative, and rigorous collection locates the
essence of parliamentarism in four key aspects-deliberation,
representation, responsibility, and sovereignty-and explores the
different ways in which they have been contested, reshaped, and
implemented in a series of representative national and regional
case studies. As one of the first comparative studies in conceptual
history, this volume focuses on debates about the nature of
parliament and parliamentarism within and across different European
countries, representative institutions, and genres of political
discourse.
The 'Age of Revolution' is a term seldom used in Scandinavian
historiography, despite the fact that Scandinavia was far from
untouched by the late eighteenth-century revolutions in Europe and
America. Scandinavia did experience its outbursts of radical
thought, its assassinations and radical reforms, but these occurred
within reasonably stable political structures, practices and ways
of thinking. As recent research on the political cultures of the
Nordic countries clearly demonstrates, the Danish, Finnish,
Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish experiences of the late-eighteenth
and early-nineteenth centuries offer a more differentiated look at
what constitutes 'revolutionary' change in this period compared
with other regions in Europe. They provide an alternative story of
an incipient transition towards modernity, a 'Nordic model' in
which radical change takes place within an apparent continuity of
the established order. The long-term products of the processes of
change that began in the Age of Revolution were some of the most
progressive and stable political systems in the modern world. At
the same time, the Scandinavian countries provide a number of
instances which are directly relevant to comparisons particularly
within the northwest European cultural area. Presenting the latest
research on political culture in Scandinavia, this volume with
twenty-seven contributions focuses on four key aspects: the crisis
of monarchy; the transformation in political debate; the emerging
influence of commercial interest in politics; and the shifting
boundaries of political participation. Each section is preceded by
an introduction that draws out the main themes of the chapters and
how they contribute to the broader themes of the volume and to
overall European history. Generously illustrated throughout, this
book will introduce non-Scandinavian readers to developments in the
Nordic countries during the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth
centuries and both complement and challenge research into the
political cultures of Europe and America.
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