THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS OF ROMANIAN NATIONALISM, IN THE VIEW OF ANTOINE ROGER - A CRITICAL APPRAISAL

Before proceeding to the reviewing of Antoine Roger’s original account of Romanian nationalism, I find it necessary to outline the field to which Roger’s book makes an inspired contribution. In other words, I shall begin by discussing some of the recent works on the birth and shaping of Romanian nationalism, and therefore, of the Romanian nation. But first, our attention is called to the matrix which exerts an undeniable influence on many of these writings - the field of Romanian historiography2.