Maarten van Ginderachter (editor) - National indifference and the History of Nationalism in Modern Europe

MAARTEN VAN GINDERACHTER AND JON FOX

TOM VERSCHAFFEL

SIMONE A. BELLEZZA

MARCO BRESCIANI

ZACHARY DOLESHAL

FILIP ERDELJAC

ALISON CARROL

GBOR EGRY

MORGANE LABB

BRENDAN KARCH

JIM BJORK

ANNA WHITTINGTON

JON FOX, MAARTEN VAN GINDERACHTER, AND JAMES M. BROPHY

The symposium in Prague in September 2016, at which this volume was prepared, was facilitated by a grant from the FWO-Flemish Research Foundations program for international Scientific Research Communities, grant W0.017.14N. A word of thanks is due to Michal Kopecek, Radka ustrov, Tara Zahra, Pieter Judson, Jeremy King, James M. Brophy, and all the participants for their valuable input at the Prague symposium; and to the NISE network (Nationalist Intermediary Structures in Europe) for facilitating the symposium.

Simone A. Bellezza is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Naples Federico II. The fil rouge of all his work is the study of national identity and its relationship with other kinds of loyalties (social, political, cultural, and religious). As a member of the research team World War I Trentino, Italy, Europe, he studied the Trentine POWs in Russia during the First World War. He is currently preparing a monograph entitled The Shore of Expectations: A History of the Ukrainian Cultural Dissent, 19531973 (CIUS Press, Toronto).

Jim Bjork is a Reader in Modern European History in the History Department at Kings College London. He is the author of Neither German nor Pole: Catholicism and National Indifference in a Central European Borderland (University of Michigan Press, 2008) and co-editor of Creating Nationality in Central Europe, 18801950: Modernity, Violence and (Be)longing in Upper Silesia (with Tomasz Kamusella, Tim Wilson, and Anna Novikov, Routledge, 2016). His current research interests continue to centre on the relationship between religious and national identifications. He is working on a manuscript examining the reconstruction of Polish Catholicism in the aftermath of the Second World War, with the provisional title Seeing like a Church: Making Catholic Poland after 1945.

Marco Bresciani is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Verona. He received his PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Pisa, where he was also a postdoc researcher. He has been a fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa), at the Remarque Institute (New York University), at the Centre de Recherches Politiques R. Aron (Ecole Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), at the Center for Advanced Studies (Rijeka), and a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Zagreb. His main research field was the political and intellectual history of Italian and European socialism, anti-fascism, and anti-totalitarianism. He has recently published a work on the anti-fascist revolutionary group of Giustizia e Libert (Quale antifascismo?, Carocci, 2017). Meanwhile, he has turned to the political and social history of the post-Habsburg Upper Adriatic and of the post-war ascent of fascism, as well as to the history of the relations between conservatism and radicalism in interwar Europe.

James M. Brophy is the Francis H. Squire Professor of History at the University of Delaware. He has written Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Prussia, 18301870 (Ohio State University Press, 1998) and Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in the Rhineland, 18001850 (Cambridge University Press, 2007), as well as co-edited