Oliver Zimmer
Biographic Data
| ID | 329706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oliver Zimmer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oliver |
| FAMILY NAME | Zimmer |
| SIGNATURE | ZIMMER O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1133-5821 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 175 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
One Clock Fits All? Time and Imagined Communities in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Many Germans defended local time well beyond 1893, when Germany adopted a time standard bearing on the life of the entire nation. Yet the defining feature of Germany's temporal landscape was its multilayered nature, with North and South adopting different temporal regimes and undergoing different experiences. Focusing on the spread of (railway-induced) standard time and the responses it provoked, this article offers an investigation of German tim…
Nationalism in Europe, 1918–45
Interwar Europe, and particularly its central and eastern regions, witnessed a clash between the hegemonic nationalism of so-called successor states such as Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia and the irredentist nationalism of defeated states like Hungary and Germany. The former interpreted the Wilsonian principle of national self-determination as the right of the dominant nationality to impose its culture on the minority populations living with…
Remaking the Rhythms of Life: German Communities in the Age of the Nation-State
Across Europe, the late nineteenth century marked a period of rapid economic growth, increased migration, cultural and technical innovation, religious conflict, and inter-state competition. In Germany, these developments were further accentuated by the creation of the imperial state in 1870/71 and the conflicting hopes and expectations it provoked within the larger public. Attempting to make sense of this turbulent period of German history, histo…
Seventh nations and nationalism debate: J oep L eerssen's N ational T hought in E urope : A C ultural H istory
Coping with deviance: Swiss nationhood in the long nineteenth century
This article highlights two processes that shaped Swiss nationhood in the long nineteenth century. The first concerns the competition between different nation-states and the nationalist visions these contests engendered. In a Europe dominated by the norm of the culturally and ethnically homogenous nation, the Swiss authorities, public intellectuals and various political representatives were desperate to display an image of national authenticity t…
"Beneath the "Culture War: Corpus Christi Processions and Mutual Accommodation in the Second German Empire
Culture Wars: Secular–Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth‐Century Europe by Christopher Clark and Wolfram Kaiser (eds.)
Power and the Nation in European History
Few would doubt the central importance of the nation in the making and unmaking of modern political communities. The long history of 'the nation' as a concept and as a name for various sorts of 'imagined community' likewise commands such acceptance. But when did the nation first become a fundamental political factor? This is a question which has been, and continues to be, far more sharply contested. A deep rift still separates 'modernist' perspec…
A Unique Fusion of the Natural and the Man-Made’: The Trajectory of Swiss Nationalism, 1933-39
In 1996, a special commission of Swiss and foreign historians was set up to investigate Switzerland’s economic and business links with nazi Germany during the second world war. Among the few themes of a predominantly non-economic nature investigated by the commission was Switzerland’s refugee policy both before and during the war. While this has undoubtedly resulted in a number of new insights, the ideological climate in which this policy could t…
Dominant ethnicity' and the ‘ethnic‐civic’ dichotomy in the work of A. D. Smith
This article considers the way in which the work of Anthony Smith has helped to structure debates surrounding the role of ethnicity in present‐day nations. Two major lines of enquiry are evident here. First, the contemporary role of dominant ethnic groups within ‘their’ nations and second, the interplay between ethnic and civic elements in nationalist argument. The two processes are related, but maintain elements of distinctiveness. Smith's major…
The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800
Boundary mechanisms and symbolic resources: Towards a Process‐oriented Approach to National Identity
This article argues that the classical distinction between civic and ethnic forms of national identity has proved too schematic to come to terms with the dynamic nature of social and political processes. This has caused difficulties particularly for those historians and social scientists studying particular national movements rather than concentrating on a handful of thinkers and intellectuals or taking a broadly comparative approach. As an alter…
In Search of the Authentic Nation: Landscape and National Identity in Canada and Switzerland
While the study of nationalism and national identity has flourished in the last decade, little attention has been devoted to the conditions under which natural environments acquire significance in definitions of nationhood. This article examines the identity-forming role of landscape depictions in two polyethnic nation-states: Canada and Switzerland. Two types of geographical national identity are identified. The first - what we call the 'nationa…
In Search of Natural Identity: Alpine Landscape and the Reconstruction of the Swiss Nation
Elias Canetti, in a brief passage of his Crowds and Power (first published in German in 1960), argued that neither language, nor territory or history are at the heart of what today we would call national identity. What nations can not do without, however, and what has contributed most to turning different individuals into conscious members of a particular nation, is a national 'crowd symbol.' Canetti then went on to show that most European nation…
Boundary mechanisms and symbolic resources: Towards a Process‐oriented Approach to National Identity
This article argues that the classical distinction between civic and ethnic forms of national identity has proved too schematic to come to terms with the dynamic nature of social and political processes. This has caused difficulties particularly for those historians and social scientists studying particular national movements rather than concentrating on a handful of thinkers and intellectuals or taking a broadly comparative approach. As an alter…
In Search of the Authentic Nation: Landscape and National Identity in Canada and Switzerland
While the study of nationalism and national identity has flourished in the last decade, little attention has been devoted to the conditions under which natural environments acquire significance in definitions of nationhood. This article examines the identity-forming role of landscape depictions in two polyethnic nation-states: Canada and Switzerland. Two types of geographical national identity are identified. The first - what we call the 'nationa…
Dominant ethnicity' and the ‘ethnic‐civic’ dichotomy in the work of A. D. Smith
This article considers the way in which the work of Anthony Smith has helped to structure debates surrounding the role of ethnicity in present‐day nations. Two major lines of enquiry are evident here. First, the contemporary role of dominant ethnic groups within ‘their’ nations and second, the interplay between ethnic and civic elements in nationalist argument. The two processes are related, but maintain elements of distinctiveness. Smith's major…
In Search of Natural Identity: Alpine Landscape and the Reconstruction of the Swiss Nation
Elias Canetti, in a brief passage of his Crowds and Power (first published in German in 1960), argued that neither language, nor territory or history are at the heart of what today we would call national identity. What nations can not do without, however, and what has contributed most to turning different individuals into conscious members of a particular nation, is a national 'crowd symbol.' Canetti then went on to show that most European nation…
Coping with deviance: Swiss nationhood in the long nineteenth century
This article highlights two processes that shaped Swiss nationhood in the long nineteenth century. The first concerns the competition between different nation-states and the nationalist visions these contests engendered. In a Europe dominated by the norm of the culturally and ethnically homogenous nation, the Swiss authorities, public intellectuals and various political representatives were desperate to display an image of national authenticity t…
The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800
"Beneath the "Culture War: Corpus Christi Processions and Mutual Accommodation in the Second German Empire
A Unique Fusion of the Natural and the Man-Made’: The Trajectory of Swiss Nationalism, 1933-39
In 1996, a special commission of Swiss and foreign historians was set up to investigate Switzerland’s economic and business links with nazi Germany during the second world war. Among the few themes of a predominantly non-economic nature investigated by the commission was Switzerland’s refugee policy both before and during the war. While this has undoubtedly resulted in a number of new insights, the ideological climate in which this policy could t…
Seventh nations and nationalism debate: J oep L eerssen's N ational T hought in E urope : A C ultural H istory
In Search of the Authentic Nation: Landscape and National Identity in Canada and Switzerland
While the study of nationalism and national identity has flourished in the last decade, little attention has been devoted to the conditions under which natural environments acquire significance in definitions of nationhood. This article examines the identity-forming role of landscape depictions in two polyethnic nation-states: Canada and Switzerland. Two types of geographical national identity are identified. The first - what we call the 'nationa…
In Search of Natural Identity: Alpine Landscape and the Reconstruction of the Swiss Nation
Elias Canetti, in a brief passage of his Crowds and Power (first published in German in 1960), argued that neither language, nor territory or history are at the heart of what today we would call national identity. What nations can not do without, however, and what has contributed most to turning different individuals into conscious members of a particular nation, is a national 'crowd symbol.' Canetti then went on to show that most European nation…
Boundary mechanisms and symbolic resources: Towards a Process‐oriented Approach to National Identity
This article argues that the classical distinction between civic and ethnic forms of national identity has proved too schematic to come to terms with the dynamic nature of social and political processes. This has caused difficulties particularly for those historians and social scientists studying particular national movements rather than concentrating on a handful of thinkers and intellectuals or taking a broadly comparative approach. As an alter…
A Unique Fusion of the Natural and the Man-Made’: The Trajectory of Swiss Nationalism, 1933-39
In 1996, a special commission of Swiss and foreign historians was set up to investigate Switzerland’s economic and business links with nazi Germany during the second world war. Among the few themes of a predominantly non-economic nature investigated by the commission was Switzerland’s refugee policy both before and during the war. While this has undoubtedly resulted in a number of new insights, the ideological climate in which this policy could t…
Dominant ethnicity' and the ‘ethnic‐civic’ dichotomy in the work of A. D. Smith
This article considers the way in which the work of Anthony Smith has helped to structure debates surrounding the role of ethnicity in present‐day nations. Two major lines of enquiry are evident here. First, the contemporary role of dominant ethnic groups within ‘their’ nations and second, the interplay between ethnic and civic elements in nationalist argument. The two processes are related, but maintain elements of distinctiveness. Smith's major…
The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800
Power and the Nation in European History
Few would doubt the central importance of the nation in the making and unmaking of modern political communities. The long history of 'the nation' as a concept and as a name for various sorts of 'imagined community' likewise commands such acceptance. But when did the nation first become a fundamental political factor? This is a question which has been, and continues to be, far more sharply contested. A deep rift still separates 'modernist' perspec…
Culture Wars: Secular–Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth‐Century Europe by Christopher Clark and Wolfram Kaiser (eds.)
"Beneath the "Culture War: Corpus Christi Processions and Mutual Accommodation in the Second German Empire
Coping with deviance: Swiss nationhood in the long nineteenth century
This article highlights two processes that shaped Swiss nationhood in the long nineteenth century. The first concerns the competition between different nation-states and the nationalist visions these contests engendered. In a Europe dominated by the norm of the culturally and ethnically homogenous nation, the Swiss authorities, public intellectuals and various political representatives were desperate to display an image of national authenticity t…
Nationalism in Europe, 1918–45
Interwar Europe, and particularly its central and eastern regions, witnessed a clash between the hegemonic nationalism of so-called successor states such as Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia and the irredentist nationalism of defeated states like Hungary and Germany. The former interpreted the Wilsonian principle of national self-determination as the right of the dominant nationality to impose its culture on the minority populations living with…
Remaking the Rhythms of Life: German Communities in the Age of the Nation-State
Across Europe, the late nineteenth century marked a period of rapid economic growth, increased migration, cultural and technical innovation, religious conflict, and inter-state competition. In Germany, these developments were further accentuated by the creation of the imperial state in 1870/71 and the conflicting hopes and expectations it provoked within the larger public. Attempting to make sense of this turbulent period of German history, histo…
Seventh nations and nationalism debate: J oep L eerssen's N ational T hought in E urope : A C ultural H istory
One Clock Fits All? Time and Imagined Communities in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Many Germans defended local time well beyond 1893, when Germany adopted a time standard bearing on the life of the entire nation. Yet the defining feature of Germany's temporal landscape was its multilayered nature, with North and South adopting different temporal regimes and undergoing different experiences. Focusing on the spread of (railway-induced) standard time and the responses it provoked, this article offers an investigation of German tim…
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