Inventing the Modern Region: Basque Identity and the French Nation-State

This book explores the process by which the French Basque country acquired a folkloric regional identity in the long nineteenth century. It argues that, despite originating in pre-’modern’ customs, such stereotypical identity was invented in the long nineteenth century as part of France’s process of nation-building.

Talitha Ilacqua is Career Development Fellow in Modern European History at Durham University