Juliane Engelhardt, Sociability and Civic Spirit in Northern Europe: Practising Patriotism in the Age of Enlightenment

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Juliane Engelhardt

Sociability and Civic Spirit in Northern Europe: Practising Patriotism in the Age of Enlightenment

This monograph presents the first investigation of the patriotic societies in a large European multinational realm. Its comparative outlook situates the intellectual and cultural developments in the Nordic countries as an integral part of the European Enlightenment. Furthermore, it offers new perspectives on tensions between patriotism, nationalism and universal values.

This monograph offers in-depth analyses of the formation of new social identities among the middling sort.

This monograph is essential to anyone interested in public debates, associational life, and practical reforms in the Scandinavian Enlightenment.

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Table of Contents

List of illustrations

Introduction
Associations as fields of democratic practice
Political ambitions
Patriotism as economic reform
Civilising the subjects of the state
The limits of patriotism: forging a bourgeois identity
Conclusion: the pragmatism of the Scandinavian Enlightenment

Bibliography

Index

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Juliane Engelhardt is associate professor at the University of Copenhagen. Her research centres on the intellectual and cultural history of the European Enlightenment. She has published in leading international journals such as Nations and Nationalism and Historische Zeitschrift, and is currently leading a research project on radical Protestantism.

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