A House Divided: Catholics, Socialists, and Flemish Nationalists in Nineteenth-Century Belgium

by Carl Strikwerda, Xiangming Chen Trinity College (Contribution by), Bruce Cumings University of Chicago; author of The Origins of the Korean War (Contribution by), Gary Gereffi (Contribution by), Evelyn Hu-DeHart (Contribution by)

Overview

The first book to explore the historical development of Belgian politics, this groundbreaking study of the rivalry between Catholicism, Socialism and nationalism is essential reading for anyone interested in Europe before World War I.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780847685271
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/29/1997
Pages:	420
Product dimensions:	5.76(w) x 9.04(h) x 1.06(d)

About the Author

Carl Strikwerda is associate professor of history at the University of Kansas, and the coeditor, with Camille Guerin-Gonzales, of The Politics of Immigrant Workers: Labor Activism and Migration in the World Economy Since 1930.

Editorial Reviews

Strikwerda does not retell the history of national movements or parties, but lokks locally to analyze institutions that embodied 'working class solidarity.' Strikwerda's meticulous research in primary sources, as well as the encyclopedic range of his secondary scholarship, allows him to build upon and often to counter effectively the story told by Belgian historians of their own labor movements. This book should interest European labor historians who too easily overlook Belgium.

Central European History - Janet Polasky

An original and thoroughly researched study. .. it fills a sizable gap in the history of modern Europe.

John Merriman

...substantial and important study... Strikwerda's admirably wide-ranging book therefore deserves to be read by a wide audience. Equipped with a wealth of primary research, the author is at ease with Flemish Dutch sources...

French History - Martin Conway

Strikwerda's insightful analyses of Belgian society and politics transform our understandings of the social and political history of the industrial age.

Donald Reid

A very important work, throughly researched. Strikwerda's book will be a must for labour scholars.

English Historcal Review - Jean Stengers

A model of patient historical reconstruction.

Kenneth D. McRae

One of the finest books on Belgium to appear in many years. It will be of great interest to French and German historians as well as Belgian scholars.

Kenneth Barkin

Strikwerda makes his case with an impressive command of comparative European political history.

Choice Reviews - D. G. Troyansky

Strikwerda's authoritative study of the political emergence of the working class in Belgium makes a major contribution to the history of the beginnings of mass politics in the period between about 1870 and 1914.

Hugh Mcleod

Carl Strikwerda has skillfully and thoroughly investigated the workers' movement in Ghent, Brussels, and Liège. He offers an innovative study of the mutual relationship of trade unionism, socialism, anarchism, Catholicism, and ethnicity in the period of emerging mass politics.. .. with admirable clarity, he has written a fine book, of great interest not only to Belgian scholars, but to all historians interested in the emergence of a pluralistic mass political life.

Journal of Modern History - Lode Wills

...substantial and important study... Strikwerda's admirably wide-ranging book therefore deserves to be read by a wide audience. Equipped with a wealth of primary research, the author is at ease with Flemish Dutch sources...

A model of patient historical reconstruction.

A very important work, throughly researched. Strikwerda's book will be a must for labour scholars.

An original and thoroughly researched study . . . it fills a sizable gap in the history of modern Europe.

Carl Strikwerda has skillfully and thoroughly investigated the workers' movement in Ghent, Brussels, and Liège. He offers an innovative study of the mutual relationship of trade unionism, socialism, anarchism, Catholicism, and ethnicity in the period of emerging mass politics. . . . with admirable clarity, he has written a fine book, of great interest not only to Belgian scholars, but to all historians interested in the emergence of a pluralistic mass political life.

One of the finest books on Belgium to appear in many years. It will be of great interest to French and German historians as well as Belgian scholars.

Strikwerda does not retell the history of national movements or parties, but lokks locally to analyze institutions that embodied 'working class solidarity.' Strikwerda's meticulous research in primary sources, as well as the encyclopedic range of his secondary scholarship, allows him to build upon and often to counter effectively the story told by Belgian historians of their own labor movements. This book should interest European labor historians who too easily overlook Belgium.

Strikwerda makes his case with an impressive command of comparative European political history.

Strikwerda's authoritative study of the political emergence of the working class in Belgium makes a major contribution to the history of the beginnings of mass politics in the period between about 1870 and 1914.

Strikwerda's insightful analyses of Belgian society and politics transform our understandings of the social and political history of the industrial age.

From the Publisher

Strikwerda does not retell the history of national movements or parties, but lokks locally to analyze institutions that embodied 'working class solidarity.'

Strikwerda's meticulous research in primary sources, as well as the encyclopedic range of his secondary scholarship, allows him to build upon and often to counter effectively the story told by Belgian historians of their own labor movements. This book should interest European labor historians who too easily overlook Belgium.

Central European History, Vol. 32, No.2, 1999 - Janet Polasky

...substantial and important study...

Strikwerda's admirably wide-ranging book therefore deserves to be read by a wide audience.

Equipped with a wealth of primary research, the author is at ease with Flemish Dutch sources...

French History, Vol.13, No.3, 1999 - Martin Conway