Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Quest for Homogeneity in Interwar Europe

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Interwar European minority questions have been predominantly discussed in the context of Eastern Europe until now. This open access book challenges that geographical emphasis by examining both Eastern and Western European experiences. It thus lays the foundation for a new comparative international history of the relations between national majorities and minorities in Europe after the Great War. Building on the assumption that nationalist conflicts are based on dynamic interactions between multiple actors, this book brings together different perspectives and methodological approaches (political, social and transnational) to provide a comprehensive account of minority questions between the two World Wars. With contributions from leading academics and emerging scholars based in Austria, Ireland, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the USA among others, Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Quest for Homogeneity in Interwar Europe is a wide-ranging study which is firmly anchored in the history of the transition from empires to nation-states as well as in the history of human rights and the nation-state. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

Emmanuel Dalle Mulle is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid and a research fellow of the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy. He is the author of The Nationalism of the Rich: Discourses and Strategies of Separatist Parties in Catalonia, Flanders, Northern Italy and Scotland (2017). Davide Rodogno is Full Professor of International History and Politics at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland. He is the author of Night on Earth. A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918-1930 (2021). Mona Bieling is a doctoral candidate at the Department of International History and Politics at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland, and a Landhaus Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich. Her PhD research examines how landscape changes influenced the power relations between the British, Jewish and Arab communities in Mandate Palestine (1917-1948).

This is an outstanding collection of essays on the complex relationship between minorities and nationalizing states in Interwar Europe. Most authors use a refreshing comparative, transnational or bottom-up approach, while studying the impact of Wilson's right of self-determination in both Eastern and Western Europe * Eric Storm, Senior University Lecturer at the Institute for History, Leiden University, the Netherlands *