Table of Contents:
  • Art and its publics, c. 1800 / James J. Sheehan
  • The idea of national opera, c.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 to c. 1850 / Peter Mandler
  • The invention of national languages / Otto Dann
  • The debates about universal history and national history, c. 1800: a problem-oriented historical attempt / Hans Erich Bodeker
  • Views of the past in Irish vernacular literature, 1650-1850 / Vincent Morley.