Introduction - Lotte Jensen PART ONE: THE MODERNIST PARADIGM CONTESTED 1. Premodern Nations, National Identities, National Sentiments and National Solidarity - Azar Gat 2. Vanishing Primordialism: Literature, History and the Public - Andrew Hadfield 3. Revolutionary France and the Origins of Nationalism: An Old Problem Revisited - David A. Bell PART TWO: THE GENEALOGY OF NATIONAL IDENTITY 4. The Chronicler’s Background Historical Discourse and National Identity in Early Modern Spain - Cesc Esteve 5. Arngrímur Jónsson and the Mapping of Iceland - Kim P. Middel 6. The Low Countries: Constitution, Nationhood and Character according to Hugo Grotius - Jan Waszink 7. A Russia Born of War - Gregory Carleton 8. Exiled Trojans or the Sons of Gomer: Wales’s Origins in the long Eighteenth Century - Adam Coward PART THREE: NEGATIVE MIRROR IMAGING 9. Defining the Nation, Defending the Nation: the Spanish Apologetic Discourse during the Twelve Years’ Truce (1609-1621) - Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez 10. Negative Mirror Images in Anglo-Dutch Relations, 1650-1674 - Gijs Rommelse 11. Comparing Ruins: National Trauma in Dutch Travel Accounts of the Seventeenth Century - Alan Moss PART FOUR: MAPS, LANGUAGE AND CANONISATION 12.The Roots of Modern Hungarian Nationalism: A Case Study and a Research Agenda - László Marácz 13. Preserving the Past and Constructing a Canon: Defining National Taste and Tradition in an Eighteenth-Century Cabinet of Literary Curiosities - Lieke van Deinsen 14. Emergent Nationalism in European Maps of the Eighteenth Century - Michael Wintle PART FIVE: NATION IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION 15. ‘Qu’allons-nous devenir?’: Belgian National Identity in the Age of Revolution - Jane Judge 16. Singing the Nation: Protest Songs and National Thought in the Netherlands during the Napoleonic Annexation (1810-1813) - Bart Verheijen LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS INDEX