Providing a valuable overview of regionalism throughout the entire continent, Regionalism in Modern Europe combines both geographical and thematic approaches to examine the origins and development of regional movements and identities in Europe from 1890 to the present. A wide range of internationally renowned scholars from the USA, the UK and mainland Europe are brought together here in one volume to examine the historical roots of the current regional movements, and to explain why some of them - Scotland, Catalonia and Flanders, among others – evolve into nationalist movements and even strive for independence, while others – Brittany, Bavaria – do not. They look at how regional identities - through regional folklore, language, crafts, dishes, beverages and tourist attractions - were constructed during the 20th century and explore the relationship between national and subnational identities, as well as regional and local identities. The book also includes 7 images, 7 maps and useful end-of-chapter further reading lists. This is a crucial text for anyone keen to know more about the history of the topical – and at times controversial – subject of regionalism in modern Europe.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Maps -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Region, Nation and History -- Chapter 2 Language and Regionalism -- Chapter 3 Regionalism and Folklore -- Chapter 4 Nature: From Protecting Regional Landscapes to Regionalist Self-assertion in the Age of the Global Environment -- Chapter 5 Regional foods -- Chapter 6 Tourism and the Construction of Regional Identities -- Chapter 7 Fascism and Regionalism -- Chapter 8 Communism and Regionalism -- Chapter 9 Democracy and Regionalism In Western europe -- Chapter 10 Regionalism and its Diverse Framings in German-speaking Europe Across he Long Twentieth Century -- Chapter 11 Scandinavia: Regionalism in the Shadow of Strong states -- Chapter 12 Regionalism in the Low Countries -- Chapter 13 Regionalism in South-western Europe: France, Spain, Italy and Portugal -- Chapter 14 Borderlands, Provinces, Regionalisms and Culture In East-central europe -- Chapter 15 Regionalism in Russia -- Chapter 16 Baltic and Polish Regionalism(s): Concepts, Dimensions and Trajectories -- Chapter 17 Regionalism In South-eastern.europe -- Chapter 18 The Emergence of Conjoined Nationalisms and Regionalisms in the British isles -- Chapter 19 Conclusion: Overcoming Methodological Regionalism -- Index.

This second edition provides a timely and much needed update of regional development in Tuscany. Tuscany, since being designated an Objective Two area to reverse industrial decline, has been an amazing success story. This book updates the analysis of the 'Tuscan Model' of development and its link with European integration. The book has applicability beyond the immediate area of study as the policies outlined may be applied to other similar regions. It will be an invaluable reference for students, scholars and practitioners interested in the development and implementation of a coherent industrial policy at European level.

The last half century has seen the rise across Europe of a new intermediate level of government and politics, usually referred to as a region. However the term 'region' means many different things and can be approached from many different angles - geographical, historical, cultural, social, economic and political. Although it is in Europe that regionalism as a multiform phenomenon has developed furthest, the European experience resonates in other parts of the world, where some of these elements also exist. In this volume, Michael Keating has selected some of the most significant previously published articles which provide a comprehensive overview of past and current thinking on this subject.

Founded in the late 1960s on Chile’s Pacific coast, the Open City (la Ciudad Abierta) has become an internationally recognized site of cutting-edge architectural experimentation. Yet with a global reputation as an apolitical collective, little has been discussed about the Open City’s relationship with Chilean history and politics. Politics of the Dunes explores the ways in which the Open City’s architectural and urban practice is devoted to keeping open the utopian possibility for multiplicity, pluralism, and democratization in the face of authoritarianism, a powerful mode of postcolonial environmental urbanism that can inform architectural practices today.

The contributions to this second volume focus equally on tangible and intangible dimensions of Southeast European regions. They represent the region both as a territorial unit and as a mental construct laden with symbolic meaning. The papers demonstrate that regions, be it the entire Balkan Peninsula or be it a small area somewhere in the mountains, can become palpable, visible, and audible. They can produce culture and they can, at the same time, be products of culture: regions can be constructs of those who inhabit them - or of spatial planning from "above". In any case, both the physical and the symbolic regions are a very relevant issue in Southeast Europe, serving purposes of spatial, ethnic, religious or even professional identification, or of politically motivated border-drawing.

This pioneering book studies the rise, heyday, and demise of regionalism from the Belle Époque until the Eve of the Second World War. By using a novel comparative perspective, it gives a fresh view of the relationship between cultural regionalism, political regionalism, and nationalism. Storm further illuminates how during the first decades of the twentieth century, the culture of regionalism slowly lost the battle against its main rival: the avant-garde. Regional identities, like national identities, were created and sometimes even invented; and this was equally the case in France, Germany, and Spain. Artists, architects, and international exhibitions played a highly influential role in this process. They all appropriated, and in some cases perverted, the regionalist message showing that strong regional identities would ultimately reinforce national unity. This book offers new perspectives to specialists of regionalism and nationalism, but will also be of interest to students of the cultural history of France, Germany, and Spain and to specialists from the fields of politics, ethnology, art history, cultural studies, and architectural history.