This introduction to contemporary historical theory and practice shows how issues of identity
have shaped how we write history. Stefan Berger charts how a new self-reflexivity about …

This introductory essay, firstly, offers a comparative, historical perspective on the
transformation of petitioning into a vehicle for mass popular politics across North America …

As much as any other site in the nineteenth century, Francophone Lower Canada saw
immense waves of popular petitioning, with petitions against British colonial administration …

This article focuses on large-scale petitioning campaigns, or petitionnementen as they were
called, organized between 1828 and 1878, including contemporary reflections and debates …

The decline of the centre-left and centre-right people's parties is arguably the most poignant
feature of the crisis of democracy in Western Europe today. To understand why, this book …

The history of political parties is closely connected to the history of democracy. Modern
parties emerging in the second half of the nineteenth century established a close …

imagined homeland and the role of this associational life in a broader pan-Scandinavian
discourse during the long nineteenth century, fresh light may be cast on Scandinavianism in …

This introduction reviews the history of Nordic pan-nationalism, from Scandinavianism to
Nordic cooperation, in the broader context of contemporaneous European pan-national …

During the 1920s the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) became the first Croatian broadly based
party. It built a modern structure consisting of a wide network of local organizations (local …

Cultural nationalism is an integrated part of all kinds of nationalism, especially in its
incipience. 1 This is exemplified in the Pan-Scandinavian movement of the mid-nineteenth …