Imagining a greater Germany: republican nationalism and the idea of Anschluss

Erin R. Hochman offers a fresh approach to the questions of state-and-nation-building in interwar Central Europe.

By challenging the oft-cited distinction between 'good' civic and 'bad' ethnic nationalisms and drawing attention to the energetic efforts of republicans to create a cross-border partnership to defend democracy, she emphasises that the triumph of Nazi ideas about nationalism and politics was far from inevitable.