Table of Contents

Acknowledgement

List of Contributors

Introduction. National indifference and the history of nationalism in modern Europe

Maarten Van Ginderachter and Jon Fox

Too much on their mind. Impediments and limitations of the national cultural project in nineteenth-century Belgium

Tom Verschaffel

From national indifference to national commitment and back: the case of the Trentine POWS in Russia during the First World War

Simone A. Bellezza

Lost in transition? The Habsburg legacy, state- and nation-building, and the new fascist order in the Upper Adriatic

Marco Bresciani

National indifference and the transnational corporation: the paradigm of the Bat’a Company

Zachary Doleshal

Between nationalism and indifference: the gradual elimination of indifference in interwar Yugoslavia

Filip Erdeljac

Paths to Frenchness: national indifference and the return of Alsace to France, 1919-1939

Alison Carrol

Beyond politics: national indifference as everyday ethnicity

Gábor Egry

National indifference, statistics, and the constructivist paradigm: the case of the "Tutejsi" (‘the people from here’) in interwar Polish censuses

Morgane Labbé

Instrumental nationalism in Upper Silesia

Brendan Karch

‘I have removed the boundaries of nations’: nation switching and the Roman Catholic Church during and after the Second World War

Jim Bjork

‘Citizen of the Soviet Union – it sounds dignified’. Letter writing, nationalities policy, and identity in the post-Stalinist Soviet Union

Anna Whittington

Conclusion: national indifference and the history of nationalism in modern Europe

Jon Fox, Maarten Van Ginderachter and James M. Brophy

Index

About the Author

Maarten Van Ginderachter is an Associate Professor at the Department of History of Antwerp University. He is the co-editor of Nationhood from below. Europe in the long nineteenth century (with Marnix Beyen, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012) and Everyday nationalism’s evidence problem (themed section of Nations and Nationalism, vol. 24, issue 3, 2018, co-edited with Jon Fox). His monograph The Everyday Nationalism of Workers: A Social History of Modern Belgium will appear with Stanford University Press in 2019.

Jon Fox is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Sociology, Politics, and International Studies and Assistant Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol.