A Contested Nation: History, Memory and Nationalism in Switzerland, 1761-1891 (Past and Present Publications) - Softcover
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A study of how the Swiss gradually defined their national identity in the nineteenth century.
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Oliver Zimmer was educated at the University of Zurich (Lic. Phil. I) and at the London School of Economics and Political Science (Ph.D.), and he began his academic career at the University of Durham in 1999. In 2005 he took up a University Lectureship (CUF) at Oxford. Previous publications include Nationalism in Europe, 1890–1940 (2003) and Power and the Nation in European History (edited with Len Scales, Cambridge University Press, 2005).
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