Prof Dr Arnold Labrie (A.)

My research interests include:

- social history of ideas, especially traditions of Enlightenment and Romanticism

- philosophy of history, historiography, historical consciousness

- modernization and modernity

- nation-formation and nationalism

- European history, especially Germany and France

- Global history
For the last two years my research has concentrated especially on nation-formation and nationalism in Europe. At the end of 2011 some contributions in this field will be published in the form of essays on theory and historiography of nationalism, premodern manifestations of national consciousness and case-studies on nation-formation and nationalism in Great-Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, Greece and Poland. Some examples of books and articles in earlier years are listed under 'publications'.