David H. Gowland and Stephen James
Ashgate
Hardback
176
1991
Following the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars the creation and consolidation of nation states became one of the the overriding issues of European politics. It dominated the actions and aspirations of politicians and peoples throughout the 19th century and was a major cause of the increasingly disastrous conflicts towards the turn of the century, culminating in the First ? and on a different scale ? Second World War. At the same time as large states were coming into being some peoples and nations lost the degree of statehood they had enjoyed earlier in their history, some groups and minorities were neglected in the process of national self-affirmation, some territories and fragmented sections became an issue of dispute and conflict between neighbouring countries and some minorities and immigrant communities became detached from their home territory.
Ashgate
Hardback
176
1991
Following the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars the creation and consolidation of nation states became one of the the overriding issues of European politics. It dominated the actions and aspirations of politicians and peoples throughout the 19th century and was a major cause of the increasingly disastrous conflicts towards the turn of the century, culminating in the First ? and on a different scale ? Second World War. At the same time as large states were coming into being some peoples and nations lost the degree of statehood they had enjoyed earlier in their history, some groups and minorities were neglected in the process of national self-affirmation, some territories and fragmented sections became an issue of dispute and conflict between neighbouring countries and some minorities and immigrant communities became detached from their home territory.