Eric Storm

The current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, living in a borderless world of virtual connectivity. In Nationalism, historian Eric Storm sheds light on contemporary nationalist movements by exploring the global evolution of nationalism, beginning with the rise of the nation-state in the eighteenth century through the revival of nationalist ideas...

This pioneering book studies the rise, heyday, and demise of regionalism from the Belle Epoque until the eve of the Second World War. By using a novel comparative perspective, it gives a fresh view of the relationship between cultural regionalism, political regionalism, and nationalism. Eric Storm further illuminates how during the first decades of the twentieth century, the culture of...