Belgium: Long United, Long Divided

By Samuel Humes ’52.  . September 2014. A history of Belgium that goes back 2,000 years and explains how the nation  developed a sense of  identity, common government, and a centralized nation-state, then over a few recent decades paved the way for Flemish-Walloon schism that now threatens to break it up. It responds to the question: Why does a government, unified for more than 600 years, no longer seem capable of holding together a linguistically divided country?