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- W2341044561 abstract "When was Belgium? Nations, as historians are rightly at pains to emphasise, are not eternal entities but communities bounded by time as well as space. The temporal boundaries of the Belgian nation have been the subject of debate since at least the time of Pirenne, but that debate has acquired a new prominence in recent years as older and newer generations of historians have focused their attention on the origins, contours and eventual crises of the Belgian nation-state (Morelli, 1995; Wils, 1995; Deprez & Vos, 1998; Stengers, 2000; Stengers & Gubin, 2002). The reasons for this renewed interest are not difficult to discern. The profound, and probably incomplete, transformation of Belgium into a federal or confederal entity since the end of the 1960s has for the first time made the Belgian nation-state a finite and therefore emphatically historical subject. Though political scientists rightly continue to investigate the manifold complexities (and future prospects) of the contemporary Belgian polity (e.g. Delwit, 2003), it seems undeniable that the project that was the Belgian nation-state now possesses not only a beginning and a heyday but also an end. For historians of post-1830 Belgium, this should be regarded as a liberation. Instead of being called upon to provide their expert testimony at the interminable trials of the late twentieth-century Belgian state, they are free to investigate the dynamics that gave rise to that state and which sustained it over the more than one hundred years of its existence. In sum, they finally have a subject that is fully their own. The first fruits of this renewed historiographical interest in the Belgian nation-state have been evident in the attention devoted to nineteenth-century politics, and in particular to the complex question of how close a connection existed between the process of state-building and the creation of a sense of national identity. Was Belgium, as Jean Stengers was inclined to argue, a nascent national community which after 1830 acquired the institutional architecture of a modern state? Or, as Lode Wils and more regionally-minded Flemish and Walloon historians assert, was Belgium an essentially circumstantial creation, a product of the convergence of international politics and" @default.
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