Dr Oliver Zimmer

Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History

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University College
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Publications

• 'Nationalism in Europe, 1918 - 1945', in Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism, ed. by John Breuilly (Oxford, 2013), 414-434
• Remaking the Rhythms of Life: German Communities in the Age of the Nation State (Oxford, 2013), 416 pp.
• 'Urban economies and the national imagination: the German South, 1860 - 1900', in Nationalism and the reshaping of urban communities in Europe, 1848 - 1914 (Basingstoke, 2011)
• Nationalism and the reshaping of urban communities in Europe, 1848 - 1914 , ed. with William Whyte (Palgrave: 2011) (2011)
• 'Beneath the "culture war": Corpus Christi processions and mutual accommodation in the Second German Empire'. The Journal of Modern History 82 (2010), 288-334
• 'Nation und Religion. Von der Imagination des Nationalen zur Verarbeitung von Nationalisierungsprozessen'. Historische Zeitschrift 283 (3) (2006), 617-656
• 'Circumscribing Community in Constructions of Swiss Nationhood', in What is a Nation? Europe 1789 - 1914 (Oxford, 2006), 100 - 119
• Power and the Nation in European History , ed. with Len Scales (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2005), 389
• '"A Unique Fusion of the Natural and the Man-Made": The trajectory of Swiss nationalism, 1933-1939'. Journal of Contemporary History 39 (1) (2004), 5-24
• 'Boundary Mechanisms and Symbolic Resources: Towards a Process-Oriented Approach to National Identity'. Nations and Nationalism 9 (2) (2003), 173-193
• Nationalism in Europe 1890-1940[translated into Japanese and Chinese] (Basingstoke, 2003), 160
• A Contested Nation. History, Memory and Nationalism in Switzerland, 1761-1891 (Cambridge, 2003), 269
• 'Competing Memories of the Nation. Liberal Historians and the Reconstruction of the Swiss Past, 1870-1900'. Past and Present 168 (2000), 194-226
• 'In Search of Natural Identity: Alpine Landscape and the Reconstruction of the Swiss Nation'. Comparative Studies in Society and History 40 (1998), 637-665