(eds) Unity and Diversity in European Culture c.1800

 
From the publishers:
Two of the most popular, innovative and controversial fields of historical study are cultural history and the history of nationalism. This volume brings these two areas together by addressing a central concern of recent research on the cultural history of Europe: the transition from the cosmopolitan culture of the Enlightenment to the self-consciously national cultures of the nineteenth century.
 
Eleven lively and accessible chapters cover the public sphere, music, the visual arts, political culture, literature, the role of the state, and national languages. Among the many topics discussed are the decline in the degree and importance of patronage by the churches and the nobility; the corresponding expansion in the role played by the anonymous public and the market; the decline of international languages in favour of national vernaculars; the importance of the 'other' in determining a sense of national identity; and the growing appreciation by the state of the significance of the 'fine arts' as being conducive to social harmony, economic prosperity, and political stability.

Contents
– Introduction , Tim Blanning & Hagen Schulze
– Art and its Publics, c. 1800, James Sheehan
– The Idea of National Opera around 1800, Silke Leopold
– The Invention of German Music, c. 1800, John Deathridge
– Playing with the Nation: Napoleon and the Culture of Nationalism, Peter Alter
– Cosmopolitanism, Patriotism, Nationalism, Siegfried Weichlein
– Art in a Cool Climate: The Cultural Policy of the British State in European Context, c. 1780- c. 1850, Peter Mandler
– The Invention of National Languages, Otto Dann
– The Debates about Universal History and National History around 1800: A Problem-oriented Historical Attempt, Hans-Erich Bödeker
– Views of the Past in Irish Vernacular Literature, 1650-1850, Vincent Morley 
 
Authors, editors, and contributors
Edited by Tim Blanning, Professor of Modern European History, University of Cambridge; Fellow of the British Academy and
Hagen Schulze, Professor of Modern German and European History, Free University, Berlin; Director of the German Historical Institute, London
 
Contributors:
Peter Alter, Professor of Modern History at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; Tim Blanning, Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge, Fellow of the British Academy; Hans Erich Bödeker, Senior Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen; Otto Dann, formerly Professor of Modern History at the University of Cologne; John Deathridge, King Edward Professor at King's College London; Silke Leopold, Professor of Musicology and a Member of the Zentrum für europäische Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften at the University of Heidelberg; Peter Mandler, Reader in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge; Vincent Morley, Fellow of the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute for the Study of Irish History and Civilization, University College Dublin; James J. Sheehan, Dickason Professor in the Humanities and Professor of History at Stanford University; Hagen Schulze, Professor for Modern German and European History at the Free University, Berlin and is Director of the German Historical Institute, London; Siegfried Weichlein, Privatdozent for Modern History at the Humboldt University at Berlin