A nation is (Miroslav Hroch) a large social group integrated by

Nation and Memory in Eastern Europe (19th and 20th century) Christoph Mick

A nation is (Miroslav Hroch)

• a large social group integrated by

• a combination of several kinds of objective relationships (economic, political, linguistic, cultural, religious, geographical, historical), and their

• subjective reflection in collective consciousness.

Particularly important roles play

• a “memory” of some common past;

• a density of linguistic or cultural ties enabling a higher degree of social communication within the group than beyond it;

• a conception of the equality of all members of the group organized as a civil society

• Miroslav Hroch, From National Movement to the Fully/Formed Nation, p. 61

Lateral Ethnies

• Lateral Ethnies

• Nation building from above

• Essential role of the state and his administration

Types of Nationalism (Michael Hechter)

• State-building nationalism: England, France

• Peripheral nationalism: Quebec, Scotland, Catalonia

• Irredentist nationalism: Sudeten Germans, Hungarians in Romania

• Unification nationalism: Germany, Italy

• Michael Hechter, Containing Nationalism (Oxford, New York, 2000), pp. 15-17