The current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, living in a borderless world of virtual connectivity. In Nationalism, historian Eric Storm sheds light on contemporary nationalist movements by exploring the global evolution of nationalism, beginning with the rise of the nation-state in the eighteenth century through the revival of nationalist ideas in the present day. Storm traces the emergence of the unitary nation-state—which brought citizenship rights to some while excluding a multitude of “others”—and the pervasive spread of nationalist ideas through politics and culture.

Eric Storm is an Associate Professor at Leiden University. He is a specialist in Spanish history of the 19th and 20th centuries and has conducted extensive research into the construction of regional identities in France, Spain and Germany between 1890 and 1940. At present, he mainly publishes about nationalization processes in a comparative perspective, focusing on high culture (art, architecture) and more banal forms of nationalism (tourism, world fairs, domestic sphere, cuisine).