Sir John Seeley, Pragmatic Historian in a Nationalistic Age

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction IX
5. Cultural Nationalism and the Makings of Fame 1
6. A Secret Agent’s Advice on America, 1797 18
7. “Big Jim” Larkin: A Footnote to Nationalism 45
8. The Heavy Hand of Hegel 64
9. H. G. Wells, British Patriot in Search of a World State 79
10. National Sentiment in Klopstock’s Odes and Bardiete 122
11. Arthur Young, British Patriot 144
12. French Jacobin Nationalism and Spain 190
13. Nationalism and History in the Prussian Elementary Schools under William II 241
14. The Swiss Pattern for a Federated Europe 261
15. Sir John Seeley, Pragmatic Historian in a Nationalistic Age 285
16. The Habsburgs and Public Opinion in Lombardy- Venetia,1814–1815 303
17. American Thought and the Communist Challenge 336
18. Friedrich Naumann: A German View of Power and Nationalism 352
19. Hitler and the Revival of German Colonialism 399
20. The Nationalism of Horace Greeley 431
21. Scandinavia and the Rise of Modern National Consciousness 455
22. Index 481
23. The Contributors 509