Derek Hastings is Associate Professor of History at Oakland University, USA. He is the author of Catholicism and the Roots of Nazism: Religious Identity and National Socialism (2010).
Derek Hastings has written an erudite and insightful interpretive synthesis, rooted in an intelligent reading of the most up-to-date scholarship. It can serve as an excellent foundational text in any course on modem European political history or nationalism. Aviel Roshwald, Professor of History, Georgetown University, USA Hastings has produced an inclusive and eloquent study of nationalism in Europe. Detailed, well-argued, and nuanced, his book effectively demonstrates how ideas of nationality and national belonging have shaped the history of the European continent, as well as the modern world since the eighteenth century. Gavin Murray-Miller, Senior Lecturer in History, Cardiff University, UK