Compositions et décompositions identitaires : la Belgique

The political evolution of Belgium is that of a state born in the heart of northwestern Europe in the 19th century. At one time the leader in the industrial revolution on the European continent, Belgium was a constitutional model for bourgeois parliamentary government, which contributed to the building of a Belgian national identity. This identity was in turn based on an ad-hoc historiography, which was subsequently and increasingly challenged as a result of the 20th century transformations of the economic space. The shift of economic expansion from Wallonia to Flanders reinforced the strength... Mehr ...