The parentage of nationalism: an inquiry into the origins of Dutch intellectual nationalists. Guus Wieman, 3795780 Burgemeester van Tuyllkade 76-bis
[email protected] Bachelor thesis history, OS III Nationalisme en de vorming van nationale identiteiten. June 12th 2015 C. Creyghton MA. 9708 words. 2 Table of contents: Introduction! 3 Part 1: Historiography and historical context! 5 1.1 Historiography: modernism and cultural dominance! 5 1.2: Historical context: the Dutch Enlightenment.! 9 1.3: Historical context: political turmoil! 12 Part 2 programme and implementation! 14 2.1 The research programme! 15 2.2 Results! 18 2.3 Interpreting the data! 27 Conclusion! 30 Appendix 1:! 32 Literature:! 47 3 Introduction Although nationalism was perceived as all but gone during the last decade of the 20th century, few could argue that nationalism is not omnipresent in today. The annexation of the Crimean peninsula by the Russian Federation and the separatist war in eastern Ukraine, the Scottish referendum on independence from Great-Britain, the Catalonian independence movement in Spain and the struggle between Flanders and Wallonia in Belgium are just a few of these nationalist themes and conflicts. Moreover, in Europe almost every country has seen the rise of new popular nationalist parties: the Golden Dawn party in Greece, the Jobbik party in Hungary, but also less militant movements such as: UKIP in Great-Britain, the Freedom party in the Netherlands, the Danish Folk party, True Finns and the Front National in France. The rise nationalist sentiment these past decades, has made the study of nationalism and its origins more relevant than ever.