Tabla de Contenidos: “…Towards an international history of the nineteenth-century art trade / Jan Dirk Baetens and Dries Lyna -- The education of the art market : national schools and international trade in the long nineteenth century / Jan Dirk Baetens and Dries Lyna -- 'Directions to know a good picture' : marketing national school categories to the British public in the long eighteenth century / Benedicte Miyamoto -- Creating cultural and commercial value in late nineteenth-century New York art catalogues / Leanne Zalewski -- (Inter)national art : the London old masters market and modern British painting (1900-14) / Barbara Pezzini -- The artistic trade and networks of the Italian community in London around 1800 / Camilla Murgia -- Berlin-Paris : transnational aspects of French art auctions in the middle of the nineteenth century / Lukas Fuchsgruber -- Appropriation as a form of nationalism : collecting French furniture in the nineteenth century / Adriana Turpin -- The modern Italian sculptor as international entrepreneur : the case of Medardo Rosso (1858-1928) / Sharon Hecker -- Art reproduction and the nation : national perspectives in an international art market / Robert Verhoogt -- Epilogue. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Ringing the Changes: Mutations in the Idea of Political Change; 3 The Limits of Theory: Detecting Contemporary Global Change and Predicting the Future of the States System; 4 National Political Systems: the Changing Boundaries of Politics?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 1 Gallantry and Sociability in the South of Europe -- 1 Parallel Figures -- 2 An Exchange of Gazes -- 3 Inadequate or Excessive Masculinity, Dissolute Femininity -- 4 Gallantry in the Mirror of Time -- 5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 2 On the Spanish National Character: Gender and Modernity -- 1 The Baggage of a French Traveller in Spain -- 2 Separated by Two Centuries from France: La Porte's Spaniards -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 3 More Than One Modernity: North and South America -- 1 America's Part in the Construction of Hispanic Modernity -- 2 Pedro de Estala and El Viajero universal -- 2.1 The Image of Spain's Empire and National Character -- 2.2 The Climatology Issue and the Dimension of Gender -- 3 Conclusion: A Cliché-Ridden Cultural Geography -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 4 Nations, Sexuality, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century National Narratives -- 1 Nationalisms Present and Past -- 2 Inter-ethnic Rape in the Narratives of Romantic Nationalism -- 3 Visual Allegories and Representations -- 4 Intertextual Relationships -- 5 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 5 Honour and Violence: Mediterranean Exoticism and Masculinity -- 1 Exoticism and Vraisemblance -- 2 A Trope of Otherness: The Secluded Encounter -- 3 Honour and Shame: Knowledge Production and the Literary Imagination -- 4 Realism and Romance Revisited -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 6 Meridian Ambivalences: Gendering the South in the Writings of the Coppet Group -- 1 Madame de Staël's Gendering of North and South -- 2 Sismondi, Literature and Constructing the Midi -- 3 Bonstetten and the Ambivalence of Southern Subjectivities -- Acknowledgments -- References…”

“…Rereading Travellers to the East aims to offer a new perspective on travel literature, the question of nation-building and the history of orientalism. Rereading Travellers focuses on the rereadings to which early modern travel literature about Asia has been subjected by different actors involved in the political, economic, cultural and intellectual life of post-unification Italy. …”

“…Die Autorin fragt danach, wie in Zeitschriften der Arbeiterbewegungen, der Jugendbewegung und der bürgerlichen Frauenbewegung sowie in klassischen Theorieansätzen Sozialer Arbeit die historischen Grundbegriffe „Volk“ und „Nation“ thematisiert werden und welche Schlüsse sich daraus auf das Verhältnis von Sozialer Arbeit zu sozialen Bewegungen ziehen lassen…”

“…Qu'est-ce qu'une nation?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ Eduardo Higueras Castañeda and Sergio Sánchez Collantes -- The consolidation of the constitutional monarchical system (1874-1902) / Ángeles Lario -- The two monarchies of Alfonso XIII, 1902-1931 / Javier Moreno-Luzón -- The problem of ritual in the Spanish post-revolutionary monarchical fiction (1833-1868) / David San Narciso -- The royal family as a symbolic fiction: a mixed picture of new forms of legitimacy in Spain's liberal monarchy (1843-1931) / Alicia Mira-Abad, Rosa Ana Gutiérrez-Lloret -- The king on a coin: monarchy, state, and nation through nineteenth-century Spanish coins and stamps / Raquel Sánchez -- The pious crown: the monarchy's religious devotions during the reign of Isabel II / David Martínez Vilches -- The king's descent into the people's assembly: monarchy and liberalism in Spain's nineteenth-century state opening of Parliament ceremony / Oriol Luján -- Royal travels: the modern staging and legitimation of the Spanish monarchy, 1858-1931 / Margarita Barral-Martínez…”