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Inventing the Modern Region: Basque Identity and the French Nation-State

Inventing the Modern Region: Basque Identity and the French Nation-State

Ilacqua, Talitha

Paperback

Series: Studies in Modern French and Francophone History

French HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1526194880
ISBN13: 9781526194886
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Jan 20 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This book explores the process by which the French Basque country acquired a folkloric regional identity in the long nineteenth century. It argues that, despite its origins in pre-modern customs, this stereotypical identity was invented as part of France's process of nation-building. The abolition of privileges in 1789 prompted a new interest in local culture as the defining feature of provincial France, shaping the transition from the pre-'modern' province to the 'modern' region. The relationship between the region and the nation, however, was difficult. Regional culture favoured the integration of the French Basque provinces into the French nation-state but also challenged the authority of the central state. As a result, Basque region-building reveals the strengths and weaknesses of the unitary model of French nationhood, in the nineteenth century as well as today.

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