The Breakup of a Composite State and the Construction of a National Conflict: Denmark and the Duchies in the 19th Century

This paper will discuss some aspects of the end of the composite state. It presents a critical and, in some respects, alternative reading to the traditional nation state-biased way of describing the development that led to the breakdown of the Gesamtstaat in the nineteenth century, and suggests that...

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Main Author: Steen Bo Frandsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Centre for Minority Issues 2009-03-01
Series:Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe
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Online Access:http://www.ecmi.de/fileadmin/downloads/publications/JEMIE/2009/1-2009-Steen_Bo.pdf