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The nineteenth century laid the foundations of history, both professional and popular. The authors of this collection compare Britain, the Netherlands and Belgium, unearthing the ways in which history was conceived and then utilized, usually for nationalistic purposes.

Manufacturing Middle Ages explores the entangled history of European national discourses grounded in medievalist and archaic traditions and developed by the emerging disciplines of humanities across the long nineteenth century.

Manufacturing a Past for the Present contains a series of essays on forgeries and manipulated texts and objects mainly in the service of modern nations emerging during the long nineteenth century, and reflections on the related debates on authenticity.

In Stepbrothers Janneke Weijermars offers a history of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815-1830) - today comprising Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg, from a literary perspective.

In Exploring Transylvania, Török offers a historical model of the culturally heterogeneous scholarly landscape in Transylvania. The book demonstrates how an enduring politics of social difference fostered national hierarchies, endemic tensions, and centrifugal dynamics within local scholarship.

The Harp and the Constitution consists of eleven essays charting the unexpected ways in which the Celts and Goths were reinvented in Britain and other European countries through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries - becoming not just mythologised races, but lending their names to entire value systems.

This book shows nineteenth-century German opera's entanglement with national identity formation, adding a significant perspective to discussions about Wagner's relation to German nationalism by interpreting his esthetic endeavors as a continuation of previous campaigns for the genre's emancipation.