Download or read book Nationhood from Below written by Maarten Van Ginderachter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationalism was ubiquitous in nineteenth-century Europe. Yet, we know little about what the nation meant to ordinary people. In this book, both renowned historians and younger scholars try to answer this question. This book will appeal to specialists in the field but also offers helpful reading for any college and university course on nationalism.