Table of Contents

Tim Blanning & Hagen Schulze: Introduction
James Sheehan: Art and its Publics, c. 1800
Silke Leopold: The Idea of National Opera around 1800
John Deathridge: The Invention of German Music, c. 1800
Peter Alter: Playing with the Nation: Napoleon and the Culture of Nationalism
Siegfried Weichlein: Cosmopolitanism, Patriotism, Nationalism
Peter Mandler: Art in a Cool Climate: The Cultural Policy of the British State in European Context, c. 1780- c. 1850
Otto Dann: The Invention of National Languages
Hans-Erich Bödeker: The Debates about Universal History and National History around 1800: A Problem-oriented Historical Attempt
Vincent Morley: Views of the Past in Irish Vernacular Literature, 1650-1850

Reviews

This collection should provide stimulation for all those interested in the transformations of European culture in the so-called Sattelzeit between about 1750 and 1850. Brian Vick, English Historical Review