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Podcast: New Books in Eastern European Studies
Episode: Alexander Maxwell, "Everyday Nationalism in Hungary: 1789-1867" (De Gruyter, 2019)
Description: Everyday Nationalism in Hungary: 1789-1867Â (De Gruyter, 2019) examines Hungarian nationalism through everyday practices that will strike most readers as things that seem an unlikely venue for national politics. Separate chapters examine nationalized tobacco, nationalized wine, nationalized moustaches, nationalized sexuality, and nationalized clothing. These practices had other economic, social or gendered meanings: moustaches were associated with manliness, wine with aristocracy, and so forth. The nationalization of everyday practices thus sheds light on how patriots imagined the nation's economic, social, and gender composition.Nineteenth-century Hungary thus serves as the case study in the politics of "everyday nationalism." The book d...