Nationalism and nationalist ideologies and movements Books
Yale University Press City on a Hill A History of American
Book SynopsisA fresh, original history of America's national narratives, told through the loss, recovery, and rise of one influential Puritan sermon from 1630 to the present dayTrade Review“Van Engen is an elegant, accessible writer, and this is a truly illuminating study of America.”—Ron Charles, Washington Post“Engaging and substantive.”—Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal“An elegant piece of historical detective work . . . City on a Hill grasps a phrase you may think you understand—and then it turns that phrase to open the door to a huge room of rediscovered knowledge. . . . [A] wonderful archaeology of an American idea.”—David Frum, The AtlanticWinner of the 2021 Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize, awarded by the Massachusetts Historical Society: “A major contribution to the historical scholarship on Puritanism and American exceptionalism. . . . Truly an influential book.”Winner of the 2022 Pelikan Award, a biannual prize given by an independent committee of Yale faculty, sponsored by Yale University Press“This deeply researched and startling study of national myth is a revelation. Van Engen takes us on an extraordinary intellectual journey through the idea of exceptionalism. Here, good history punctures our hardened assumptions with evidence, even as it allows for myth’s powers over our imaginations.”—David W. Blight, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom“Fluidly written, deeply and widely researched, persuasively argued, scintillating, and stunningly effective. . . . A landmark contribution.”—Mark Noll, author of In the Beginning Was the Word“Van Engen uncovers the story of the most revered sermon in the American saga, tracing its shadowy origin to the bully pulpit centuries later as a motto for national exceptionalism. A trifecta of scholarship, narrative history, and a timely contribution to debates over our role in the world.”—Strobe Talbott, Brookings Institution“Abram Van Engen has written a brilliant cultural history of how the meaning of America has been defined, over time, by appeals to the Puritans’ grand vision of a ‘city on a hill.’ This story, with its many twists and turns, illuminates the power and the contradictions of these myths of American exceptionalism. The chapters on the influence of Perry Miller are truly exceptional.”—Nathan Hatch, president of Wake Forest University“Abram Van Engen blends deep research in rare primary sources with a gripping story that runs from the 1620s to the present. Drawing on history, religion, and literature, he makes a persuasive argument in page-turning prose about the mythic roots of American exceptionalism. This should be a prize-winning book.”—Grant Wacker, author of One Soul at a Time: The Story of Billy Graham
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Random House USA Inc Say Nothing
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Empire of Pain—a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions.Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of 10, from her Belfast home in 1972. In this meticulously reported book—as finely paced as a novel—Keefe uses McConville''s murder as a prism to tell the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Interviewing people on both sides of the conflict, he transforms the tragic damage and waste of the era into a searing, utterly gripping saga. —New York Times Book ReviewJean McConville''s abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five years after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland, a set of human bones was discovered on a beach. McConville''s children knew it was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was attached to the dress--with so many kids, she had always kept it handy for diapers or ripped clothes.Patrick Radden Keefe''s mesmerizing book on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath uses the McConville case as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. The brutal violence seared not only people like the McConville children, but also I.R.A. members embittered by a peace that fell far short of the goal of a united Ireland, and left them wondering whether the killings they committed were not justified acts of war, but simple murders. From radical and impetuous I.R.A. terrorists such as Dolours Price, who, when she was barely out of her teens, was already planting bombs in London and targeting informers for execution, to the ferocious I.R.A. mastermind known as The Dark, to the spy games and dirty schemes of the British Army, to Gerry Adams, who negotiated the peace but betrayed his hardcore comrades by denying his I.R.A. past--Say Nothing conjures a world of passion, betrayal, vengeance, and anguish.Look for Patrick Radden Keefe''s latest bestseller, Empire of Pain.
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ABC-CLIO Arab Nationalism Oil and the Political Economy of Dependency
Book SynopsisAlnasrawi contends that Arab economic development was shaped by Arab nationalist thought, the emergence of the oil industry in the Arab region, and the integration of Arab economies into the international economic system.Table of ContentsEmergence of Modern Arab Economic Dependence Arab Nationalism, Dependency, and World Capitalism Arab Nationalism and Arab Economic Unity Multinational Oil and the Deepening of Arab Dependency Arab Nationalism and the Arab Oil "Weapon": The Built-In Failure The Role of Saudi Arabia and the United States in the Fall of OPEC The 1980s, the Iran-Iraq War, and the Myth of Arab Oil Power Dimensions of Arab Economic Dependency The Arab Economics: Present Conditions and Future Outlook Epilogue: Arab Nationalism, Oil, Dependency, and the Gulf Crisis Bibliography Index
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Back Bay Books Sisters in Hate
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) China
Book SynopsisHenrietta Harrison is Professor of History at Harvard University.Trade Review'This book provides many important insights into Chinese nationalism as seen through Chinese behaviour.' Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsPart 1 A common culture: the Manchu Empire. Part 2 Constructing a modern nation - the world of nation states: the creation of modern nationalism; ethnicity and modernity in the 1911 revolution; nation, modernity and class. Part 3 Nationalism and imperialism - the growth of nationalism as an ideology: nationalism and the party state; war, nationalism and identity; state building and nation building. Part 4 The emergence of alternative nationalisms?.
£56.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Nationalism Referendums and Democracy Voting on
Book SynopsisThis revised and expanded edition analyses the factors conducive to holding independence and secession referendums, to winning these votes and to their status in domestic and international law. Table of ContentsPart I – The History of Referendums 1. Introduction: Nationalism, Referendums and Democracy: Independence, Recognition and Voting 2. The History of Ethno-National Referendums 1791-2018 Part II – A Theory of Self Determination 3. Secessionist Referendums in International and Domestic Law 4. Theory of State Recognition: A Contemporary Assessment Part III – Case Studies 5. Phantom Referendums in Phantom States: Meaningless farce or a bridge to reality? 6. Legacies of a Failed Referendum: Negotiations to Ratify a Peace Treaty in Cyprus 7. Self-determination or the Will of the People? Declarations of Independence and the Paradox of "Alien-determined Self-determination"
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Taylor & Francis German Nationalism and Indian Political Thought
Book SynopsisThis book examines the influence of Indian socio-political thought, ideas, and culture on German Romantic nationalism. It suggests that, contrary to the traditional view that the concepts of nationalism have moved exclusively from the West to the rest of the world, in the crucial case of German nationalism, the essential intellectual underpinnings of the nationalist discourse came to the West, not from the West. The book demonstrates how the German Romantic fascination with India resulted in the adoption of Indian models of identity and otherness and ultimately shaped German Romantic nationalism. The author illustrates how Indian influence renovated the scholarly design of German nationalism and, at the same time, became central to pre-modern and pre-nationalist models of identity, which later shaped the Aryan myth. Focusing on the scholarship of Friedrich Schlegel, Otmar Frank, Joseph Goerres, and Arthur Schopenhauer, the book shows how, in explaining the fact of the diversiTable of Contents1. The Romantic Germanization (Verdeutschung) of the Indian Heritage 2. Britain’s Discovery of India: The Colonial Rulers and Their Fact-Finding Team 3. The German Indian Renaissance and its Historical Roots 4. Friedrich Schlegel: Indology as the Key to the National and Religious History of the World 5. Otmar Frank: A Breakthrough to the Alleged Iranian-Indian Roots of the Germans 6. Joseph Goerres: The Orient as the Source of the Urreligion and of the Staende-based German Weltstaat 7. Schopenhauer: The India-Rooted "Wisdom of All Ages" vs. the Bible-Based Monotheism
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Taylor & Francis The Portuguese Far Right
Book SynopsisThe book discusses the far right in the contemporary Portugal (1945-2015) within three different periods: the end of the authoritarian regime of António de Oliveira Salazar (1945-1974), the transition to democracy after the coup d'état of April 25th (1974-1982) and the democratic regime until the present (1982-2015). The analysis focuses on political groups and parties, social movements, ideologies, intellectuals and publications acting at the extreme right of the political spectrum of the Portuguese authoritarian regime and of the democratic regime, both on a national and international level. The book also contextualizes the Portuguese far right within the political thought and the organisational models of the wider European extreme right. A qualitative in-depth case study and the outcome of ten years of research, this book offers analysis of historical and contemporary primary sources, previously unexplored archives and in-depth interviews. AssessTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I - The Far Right at the end of the authoritarian regime (1945-1974)Chapter 1 - The far right intellectual milieu at the end of the World War II (1945-1960)Chapter 2 - The far right at the outbreak of the War in Africa (1961-1968) Chapter 3 - The right-wing opposition to the Marcello Caetano Government (1968-1974) Part II - The Far Right during the transition to democracy (1974-1982)Chapter 1 - The far right resistance during the revolution (1974-1975) Chapter 2 - The far right resurgence in the ‘democratic normalization’ (1976-1982) Chapter 3 - The metapolitics as the new strategy to modernize the far right (1982-1985) Part III - The Far Right during the consolidated democracy (1982-2015)Chapter 1 - A new cycle in democracy: the groupuscular and subcultural far right (1985-1999) Chapter 2 - The new party strategy at the dawn of the new millennium (1999-2015) Chapter 3 - The identitarian movement in Portugal
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Taylor & Francis The Ottoman Army and the First World War
Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive new operational military history of the Ottoman army during the First World War. Drawing from archives, official military histories, personal war narratives and sizable Turkish secondary literature, it tells the incredible story of the Ottoman armyâs struggle from the mountains of the Caucasus to the deserts of Arabia and the bloody shores of Gallipoli. The Ottoman army, by opening new fronts, diverted and kept sizeable units of British, Russian and French forces away from the main theatres and even sent reinforcements to Austro-Hungary and Bulgaria. Against all odds the Ottoman army ultimately achieved some striking successes, not only on the battlefield, but in their total mobilization of the empireâs meagre human and economic resources. However, even by the terrible standards of the First World War, these achievements came at a terrible price in casualties and, ultimately, loss of territory. Thus, instead of improving the integrity and security of the empiTrade Review"The Ottoman Army and the First World War is a thorough analysis of the Ottoman Army on all fronts during the Great War. It describes its operational military history and military effectiveness during that war, and it is difficult to disagree with Uyar in his assessment that Western historiography has for too long ignored the so-called peripheral campaigns of the war ... This book is a long overdue addition to the modern historiography of the First World War."Michael Tyquin, British Journal for Military HistoryTable of ContentsList of figures viiiList of maps xiiPreface xiiiA note on transliteration xix1 Prelude to war 12 The decision to go to war 383 Opening moves 714 The year of uncertainty: 1915 1065 The year of glory and disappointment: 1916 2116 The dreams and realities: 1917 2827 The year of disasters: 1918 357Epilogue 417Bibliography 424Index 449
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Taylor & Francis The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and
Book SynopsisThis volume showcases important new research on World War II memory, both in the Soviet Union and in Russia today.Through an examination of war remembrance in its various formsâofficial histories, school textbooks, museums, monuments, literature, films, and Victory Day paradesâchapters illustrate how the heroic narrative of the war was established in Soviet times and how it continues to shape war memorialization under Putin. This war narrative resonates with the Russian population due to decades of Soviet commemoration, which continued virtually uninterrupted into the post-Soviet period. Major themes of the volume include the use of World War II memory for political legitimation and patriotic mobilization; the striking continuities between Soviet and post-Soviet commemorative practices; the place of Holocaust memorialization in contemporary Russia; Putinâs invocation of the war to bolster national pride and international prestige; and the relationship between individual memorTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Politics of Commemoration in the Soviet Union and Contemporary Russia Part I: Soviet Remembrance of the War 1. Wartime Mobilizational Strategies and the Origins of Soviet War Memory 2. Situating Stalin in the History of the Second World War 3. Victory Day before the Cult: War Commemoration in the USSR, 1945–1965 4. Teaching and Remembering the Great Patriotic War in Soviet Schools 5. Representations of Gender in Soviet War Memorials Part II: Soviet and Post-Soviet War Memory 6. Veterans Remember the War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Fiction 7. Lend-Lease in War and Russian Memory 8. Politicizing War Memorialization in Soviet and Post-Soviet Sevastopol 9. World War II Memories and Local Media in the Russian North: Velikii Novgorod and Murmansk 10. Parades in Russian Memory Culture Part III: Representations of the War in the Putin Era 11. Performing Memory and Its Limits: Vladimir Putin and the Celebration of World War II in Russia 12. Holocaust Discourse in Putin’s Russia as a Foreign Policy Tool 13. The War Film and Memory Politics in Putin’s Russia 14. Jews, Gender, and Just Wars: Remembering and Rewriting the Great Patriotic War in 2015 War Films 15. The 21st-Century Memory of the Great Patriotic War in the “Russia—My History” Museum
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Combatants and Civilians in Revolutionary Ireland
Book SynopsisThis book is based on original research into intimidation and violence directed at civilians by combatants during the revolutionary period in Ireland, considering this from the perspectives of the British, the Free State and the IRA.The book combines qualitative and quantitative approaches, and focusses on County Kerry, which saw high levels of violence. It demonstrates that violence and intimidation against civilians was more common than clashes between combatants and that the upsurge in violence in 1920 was a result of the deployment of the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries, particularly in the autumn and winter of that year. Despite the limited threat posed by the IRA, the British forces engaged in unprecedented and unprovoked violence against civilians. This study stresses the increasing brutality of the subsequent violence by both sides. The book shows how the British had similar methods and views as contemporary counter-revolutionary groups in Europe.IRA violence, hTable of ContentsIntroduction 11 Fond memories, location and hostility: the role of civilians in republican testimony, 1918–23 202 Delinquent youths and the moderate majority: the role of civilians in the records of the crown forces and Free State army, 1918–23 443 Crime, alcohol, travellers and emigration: republican policing in 1920 684 The development of the IRA’s campaign against combatants and civilians in 1920 925 ‘…the Tans appeared to have gone absolutely mad’: the crown forces and violence, 1920–21 1306 Ambushes, harassment, arson, and spies and informers: IRA violence in 1921 1757 Truce and civil war 211
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WW Norton & Co Kingdom Coming
Book Synopsis"A potent wakeup call to pluralists in the coming showdown with Christian nationalists."—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewTrade Review"An important work of investigative journalism." -- Anna Godbersen - Esquire"Goldberg's book will be recognized as the definitive guide to how a relatively tiny group of intellectuals, politicians, and conservatives religionists positioned themselves to take over America. This stuff is no joke." -- Tony Normal - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"Regardless of where you fall on the moderate-to-progressive political scale, this well-written chronicle of civil liberties under siege by holy rollers will undoubtedly scare the bejesus out of you." -- David Fear - Time Out
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WW Norton & Co Against the World
Book SynopsisA brilliant, eye-opening work of history that speaks volumes about today’s battles over international trade, immigration, public health and global inequalityTrade Review"Ms. Zahra’s narrative shows us how closely—even eerily—our present-day world resembles the state of the globe roughly a century ago.... The most engaging sections of Ms. Zahra’s vigorous and informative book are those in which she offers us biographical portraits of some of the players in the great game of globalization." -- Tunku Varadarajan - The Wall Street Journal"[Zahra] has written a panoramic work illustrating how societies across the world reacted in the interwar ear against the perceived threats of a globalised economy. " -- Financial Times"[A] superb history of the interwar period… Zahra has produced one of the best and most timely works of global history of the past few years." -- Gavin Jacobson - The New Statesman"A panoramic history of anti-globalisation… Zahra deftly weaves cutting-edge scholarship and human stories into concerns about democracy, markets and nation-states." -- Financial Times"Every story in this book is relevant and absorbing; Zahra plaits her narrative strands together with such deliberation and skill that nothing is out of place." -- Jennifer Szalai - The New York Times"Against the World counterintuitively offers a global history from the perspective of its discontents. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully told." -- Mae Ngai, Bancroft Award–winning author of The Chinese Question"Against the World is a tour de force: Tara Zahra brings her formidable talents as a writer and scholar to this elegant, consistently surprising, and richly peopled book." -- Sunil Amrith, author of Unruly Waters"Against the World not only alerts us to the central intellectual folly of our age. Splendidly timely, it also explains our bewildering present of war and rancorous mass politics, and outlines both challenges and possibilities in our shared future." -- Pankaj Mishra, author of Bland Fanatics"Every day brings another headline about the end of globalization but, as Tara Zahra shows us in her lively and learned new book, we have been here before.… Through vivid portraits of contemporaries from Czech shoe baron Tomás Bat’a to Hungarian-born femin" -- Quinn Slobodian, author of Globalists
£25.19
WW Norton & Co From Voting to Violence
Book SynopsisIn his new book, Jack Snyder focuses his clear logic on a pressing issue of our times: nationalism.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Democracy and National Pluralism 8 Routledge
Book SynopsisHow can democracies deal with plurality? This book looks at the political accommodation of national plurality in liberal democracies and in the European Union at the turn of the century. Its panel of international authorities examines this issue from a variety of perspectives, considering questions of citizenship, multiculturalism, immigration and equality. The contributors, many of whom have set the terms of this debate in international political science, include Will Kymlicka, Carlos Closa, Michael Keating, Enric Fossas, Wayne Norman and Ricard Zapata Barrero.Table of Contents1. Introduction: 'It is so very late that we may call it early by and by' Ferran Requejo 2. The New Debate over Minority Rights Will Kymlicka 3. Nations Without the States, Minority Nationalism in the Global Era Michael Keating 4. National Plurity and Equality Enric Fossas 5. Secession and (Constitutional) Democracy Wayne Norman 6. National Plurity within Single Statehood in the European Union Carlos Closa 7. The Limits of a Multinational Europe: Democracy and Immigration in the European Union Ricard Zapata 8. Democratic Legitimacy and National Plurism Ferran Requejo
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Multinational Federations
Book SynopsisThis is the first comparative volume available on multinational federations, bringing together an international range of experts on federalism.Multinational federations are federal states intended to provide a framework that can accommodate, manage and resolve some of the most intractable political conflicts of our time that emerge from identity politics: those that stem from competing national visions, whether within or between established states. Featuring key experts in the field such as Michael Burgess, Alain Gagnon and Ronald Watts, this unique book draws on a wide geographical range of country studies including Belgium, Canada, India, Malaysia, Spain, Russia, Cyprus, India, Switzerland and the EU in order to illustrate the pivotal relationship between federalism and nationalism. In so doing, it addresses the practical relevance of federalism to the new political recognition of difference and diversity in the specific form of national minoritarianism. MTable of Contents1. Introduction: Multinational Federations 2. Democratic Multinational Federalism under Scrutiny: Healthy Tensions and Unresolved Issues in Canada 3. Multinational Federations: Reflections on the Belgian State 4. Federalism and Competing Nations in India 5. Multinational Federation: The Case of Malaysia 6. Federalisation in Multinational Spain 7. Russia’s Multinational Federation: From Constitutional to Contract Federalism and the ‘War of Laws and Sovereignties’ 8. What Is To Be Done? Bicommunalism, Federation and Confederation in Cyprus 9. Federalism, Nationality, Statehood: The Problem of the European Union 10. Federation as a Method of Ethnic Conflict Regulation 11. India and Switzerland as Multinational Federations 12. Multinational Federations in Comparative Perspective
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Political Transformation and National Identity
Book SynopsisThe major socio-political changes of the last decades have led to changing ways of being national, changes in the content of national identity if not in the national categories themselves. This comparative social scientific volume takes examples of transitions to democracy (East Europe, Spain) to peace (South Africa, Israel, Northern Ireland) and to territorial decentralization (the United Kingdom, France, Spain), showing in each case how socio-political change and identity change have interlocked. It defines a typology of national identity shift, tracing the changing state forms which provoke national identity shift, and analyzing the process of identity change, its motivations and legitimations. Collecting together a wide range of examples, from South Africa to the Czech Republic from the Basque Country to the Mexican and Irish borders; the book brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, from world figures in the study of globalization and social identity to young researchers, to provide a much needed theoretical clarification and empirical evidence of types of national identity shift. Table of ContentsIntroduction. Concepts and Theories. Fluid or Frozen? Choice and Change in Ethno-National Identification in Contemporary Northern Ireland. The Social Map: Cohesion, Conflict and National Identity. The Increasing Monopolization of Identity by the State: The Case of the UK and the US. When Politics and Social Theory Converge: Group Identification and Group Rights in Northern Ireland. The Role of the State. After 1989, Who are the Czechs? Subjective National Identities in Catalonia. 'Dollar Diplomacy': Globalization, Identity Change and Peace in Israel. Economic Integration and National Identity in Mexico. Majority-Minority Conflicts and their Resolution: Protestant Minorities in France and in Ireland. Processes and Experiences of National Identity Change. Basque Militant Youths in France: New Experiences of Ethnonational Identity in the European Context. Race, Religion and Identity in South Africa: A Case Study of a Charismatic Congregation. Being English in North Wales: Immigration and the Immigrant Experience. Religion, Ethnicity and Group Identity: Irish Adolescent Views. Generations on the Border: Changes in Ethno-National Identity in the Irish Border Area.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Nationalism And Globalisation Conflicting or
Book SynopsisNationalism and globalisation are two central phenomena of the modern world, that have both shaped and been shaped by each other, yet few connections have been made systematically between the two.Trade Review"Even a fleeting glance at the impressive corpus of work that has been produced over the last couple of decades on globalization and nationalism reminds me of a snappy passage from Haruki Murakami's absorbing Norwegian Wood: ''Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about'! The collection of essays brought together by Daphne Halikiopoulou and Sofia Vasilopoulou is a welcome exception to this arid rule. Steering clear from cut and dried categorizations and worn-out clichés, the book problematizes both globalization and nationalism as well as the chequered relationship between the two, and offers fresh perspectives on some of the most important issues that continue to shape the world we live in. Authoritative yet accessible, Nationalism and Globalization will have no difficulty in finding its way into the reading lists of courses in a variety of social science disciplines." - Umut Ozkirimli, Visiting Chair in Contemporary Turkey Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Bridging the Gap between Nationalism and Globalisation Daphne Halikiopoulou and Sofia Vasilopoulou Part 1: The Historical Flexibility of Nationalism and Globalisation 1. Nationalism Might Change its Character, Again John Hall 2. Globalising the 'Principle of Nationality' Andre Liebich 3. Pan-Nationalism Reframed: Nationalism, ‘Diaspora’, the Role of the ‘Nation-State’ and the Global Age Sarah Danielsson Part 2: Between History and Theory 4. Nationalism as Global History John Breuilly 5. Globalisation and Nation Formation in the Longue Durée John Hutchinson 6. Globalisation and the Nation-State: The Future of Failures Ronald Grigor Suny Part 3: Contemporary Issues: Political Economy 7. Global Crisis, National Blame Jonathan Hearn 8. Migration and Citizenship in the Making of a Global Labour Market Stephen Castles Global Culture 9. Nationalism and Global Culture Anthony Smith 10. Nationalism and Culture in a Globalising World Stephanie Lawson. Conclusion: Nationalism and Globalisation: Conflicting or Complementary? Daphne Halikiopoulou and Sofia Vasilopoulou
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Populist Nationalism in Prewar Japan A Biography of Nakano Seigo Routledge Library Editions Japan
Book SynopsisNakano has received little attention in works in English on the relevant period, as his approaches to effective power were limited while his career also lacks the violent drama associated with movements resorting to terrorism. This book uses material from the few biographies available in conjunction with some short sketches of Nakano by others.Table of Contents1. Launched on a World of Expanding Horizons 2. In the Front Line for Party Liberalism 3. Liberalism Sarificed to National Solidarity 4. Staking All on Japan’s World Mission 5. A Final Stand For Survival with Honour Reflections. Notes. Bibliography.
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Taylor & Francis Failed Führers
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive history of the ideas and ideologues associated with the racial fascist tradition in Britain. It charts the evolution of the British extreme right from its post-war genesis after 1918 to its present-day incarnations, and details the ideological and strategic evolution of British fascism through the prism of its principal leaders and the movements with which they were associated.Taking a collective biographical approach, the book focuses on the political careers of six principal ideologues and leaders, Arnold Leese (18781956); Sir Oswald Mosley (18961980); A.K. Chesterton (18991973); Colin Jordan (19232009); John Tyndall (19342005); and Nick Griffin (1959), in order to study the evolution of the racial ideology of British fascism, from overtly biological conceptions of white supremacy' through racial nationalism' and latterly to cultural' arguments regarding ethno-nationalism'.Drawing on extensive archival research and often obscure priTrade Review'This is an original, deeply researched and very readable book by the leading scholar of British fascism. It makes an extremely valuable contribution to our understanding of the British fascist tradition.' — Professor Roger Eatwell, University of Bath, UK'By introducing a biographical approach to reveal the diversity of the visions of national rebirth adopted by six British fascists over nearly a century, Graham Macklin puts welcome flesh on the abstract formula and abstruse generalisations that have too often plagued fascist studies in the past, and simultaneously reveals the transnational nature of the fascist project in the minds of its most ardent believers. Hopefully, Macklin’s impressively researched and thoughtful biographical study will inspire a new genre of fascist studies.' — Professor Roger Griffin, Oxford Brookes University, UK.'Failed Führers offers us something remarkable, a synoptic overview of the British far right firmly rooted in the granular detail of narrative biography. A maestro of British archives, Macklin brilliantly illuminates the shady saga of a rogues gallery of fanatics from Arnold Leese and Oswald Mosley to Colin Jordan and Nick Griffin. Failed Führers is a must read for anyone concerned about fascism, past, present, . . . and future?' — Kevin Coogan, author of Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International"This is a readable and well-researched book from one of the leading scholars of British fascism. Dr Macklin’s thesis centres on six meticulous case studies of leading British fascists, usefully setting their stories in a wider international context. With neo-fascism and the authoritarian and exclusionist populist right on the rise across the globe, this is an engaging and timely reminder to keep our eyes on the past, in order to better understand the unstable present." — Dr David Baker, Warwick University, UK (Retired)"With spectacular archival depth, Failed Führers convincingly shows how continuities in far right ideologies and movements are constructed and sustained as each generation’s ideologues are shaped by trajectories of influence from key mentors to emergent proteges. A brilliant intervention into understandings of the historical and contemporary extreme right." — Cynthia Miller-Idriss, American University, USA"Failed Fuhrers provides an important and timely contribution for historians, social scientists, and the general public by offering a comprehensive account of the historical evolution of the far right in Britain. His account is layered and nuanced reflecting a deep understanding of the topic. Macklin’s manuscript is an important accomplishment and I highly recommend this book for anyone serious about understanding the far right." — Peter Simi, Chapman University, USA"The history of British fascism is a history of failure. In a new book, Failed Führers, the historian Graham Macklin retells that story through biographies of six fascist leaders. British fascism is a story as much of continuity as of change – an ever-present obsession with racial purity, venomous antisemitism and the undertow of violence. It is also, for all the political irrelevance of British fascists, a story whose lessons are worth pondering." - Kenan Malik, The Guardian."This book recounts the lives and work of six of Britain’s most important fascists, from Arnold Leese in the 1920s to Nick Griffin, and through their lives, tells the story of fascism in Britain. Macklin is an academic, but he writes clearly and simply. His method is not to make judgments, but to report what is said and done and let the facts speak for themselves, which they do." - Francis Beckett, The Spectator."This is always going to be my generation's 'big book' on British fascism. Failed Führers deserves to be presented to students as the new standard study of British fascism. This is a superbly researched book and an important one. No-one is going to surpass Macklin's treatment of these six leaders." - David Renton, author of Fascism and The New Authoritarians."The story of the British extreme right, as told in Failed Führers, is, as the title suggests, one of perpetual disappointment, only lightened by occasional, fleeting moments of comparative success....Macklin’s study is the product of exhaustive research. He has a light touch, however, and often gives, by a simple acerbic remark, a sign of the distance he keeps between himself and his subject." - Richard Griffiths, The Critic."Macklin’s Failed Führers is essential reading for any student of British fascism...Macklin’s work explores the peaks and valleys in a well-referenced work that is unlikely to be matched in terms of research and detail anytime soon. It is a highly recommended benchmark study for anyone interested in British fascism." - Ryan Schaffer, Terrorism & Political Violence."All in all, this is a superbly executed study. Macklin has more than fulfilled his promise to illuminate the ideological and strategic evolution of Britain’s fascist tradition, and has also skilfully utilised a transnational lens with which to open up new areas for future scholarship....The book will speedily take its place as a ‘classic’ and must-read study in the main historiography on the topic of Britain’s extreme right, and deservedly so." Steve Woodbridge, Kingston University."Graham Macklin’s Failed Führers is a major new study of the British fascist movement, and will likely be the central reference point for scholars of that movement for the foreseeable future." Spencer Sunshine, Three Way Fight."Macklin has produced an expansive history of fascism in Britain, which demonstrates a breadth of archival research that must have taken many years to undertake. The extensive endnotes for each chapter will surely make other researchers envious. Failed Führers provides the most in-depth and far-reaching history of fascism in post-war Britain since Richard Thurlow’s book, which was last published 20 years ago." - Evan Smith, New Historical Express."The definitive book on British fascist leaders...each chapter offers a well-crafted, expert and extensively referenced analysis of a key figure in British fascism....For any serious academic working in this area, this is certainly essential reading." - Paul Jackson, Searchlight."Containing new material on nearly every one of its subjects and featuring some of the first substantial biographical studies of others, this is as near to an encyclopaedia of the British extreme right as has yet been written. There is little doubt that Failed Führers will become a key reference book for scholars researching in this area for years to come." Liam Liburd, Twentieth Century British History."A monumental new study of British fascism that commands respect across diverse levels: for its sheer archival stamina, its firm grasp of both overview and detail and – not least – for its sheer readability and accessibility....Unlike its subjects, Failed Führers succeeds triumphantly." Tim Wilson, Irish Political Studies."A major tour de force...Each of these chapters is a thorough biography of the political activities of these respective ‘failed Führers’, copiously referenced after each chapter by a plenitude of endnotes, both substantive ones and mere references." Christopher Husbands, Ethnic and Racial Studies.'This is an original, deeply researched and very readable book by the leading scholar of British fascism. It makes an extremely valuable contribution to our understanding of the British fascist tradition.' — Professor Roger Eatwell, University of Bath, UK'By introducing a biographical approach to reveal the diversity of the visions of national rebirth adopted by six British fascists over nearly a century, Graham Macklin puts welcome flesh on the abstract formula and abstruse generalisations that have too often plagued fascist studies in the past, and simultaneously reveals the transnational nature of the fascist project in the minds of its most ardent believers. Hopefully, Macklin’s impressively researched and thoughtful biographical study will inspire a new genre of fascist studies.' — Professor Roger Griffin, Oxford Brookes University, UK.'Failed Führers offers us something remarkable, a synoptic overview of the British far right firmly rooted in the granular detail of narrative biography. A maestro of British archives, Macklin brilliantly illuminates the shady saga of a rogues gallery of fanatics from Arnold Leese and Oswald Mosley to Colin Jordan and Nick Griffin. Failed Führers is a must read for anyone concerned about fascism, past, present, . . . and future?' — Kevin Coogan, author of Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International"This is a readable and well-researched book from one of the leading scholars of British fascism. Dr Macklin’s thesis centres on six meticulous case studies of leading British fascists, usefully setting their stories in a wider international context. With neo-fascism and the authoritarian and exclusionist populist right on the rise across the globe, this is an engaging and timely reminder to keep our eyes on the past, in order to better understand the unstable present." — Dr David Baker, Warwick University, UK (Retired)"Failed Führers is rigorously researched and built on archival materials that allow for more than a retelling of a familiar story. Macklin has presented an important contribution to our knowledge and understanding. The life stories reveal how resilient ideas (and prejudices) can be, passing through time and people to recur and resurface at particular historical junctures." — Matthew Worley, Journal of Modern History"With spectacular archival depth, Failed Führers convincingly shows how continuities in far right ideologies and movements are constructed and sustained as each generation’s ideologues are shaped by trajectories of influence from key mentors to emergent proteges. A brilliant intervention into understandings of the historical and contemporary extreme right." — Cynthia Miller-Idriss, American University, USA"Failed Fuhrers provides an important and timely contribution for historians, social scientists, and the general public by offering a comprehensive account of the historical evolution of the far right in Britain. His account is layered and nuanced reflecting a deep understanding of the topic. Macklin’s manuscript is an important accomplishment and I highly recommend this book for anyone serious about understanding the far right." — Peter Simi, Chapman University, USA"The history of British fascism is a history of failure. In a new book, Failed Führers, the historian Graham Macklin retells that story through biographies of six fascist leaders. British fascism is a story as much of continuity as of change – an ever-present obsession with racial purity, venomous antisemitism and the undertow of violence. It is also, for all the political irrelevance of British fascists, a story whose lessons are worth pondering." - Kenan Malik, The Guardian."This book recounts the lives and work of six of Britain’s most important fascists, from Arnold Leese in the 1920s to Nick Griffin, and through their lives, tells the story of fascism in Britain. Macklin is an academic, but he writes clearly and simply. His method is not to make judgments, but to report what is said and done and let the facts speak for themselves, which they do." - Francis Beckett, The Spectator."This is always going to be my generation's 'big book' on British fascism. Failed Führers deserves to be presented to students as the new standard study of British fascism. This is a superbly researched book and an important one. No-one is going to surpass Macklin's treatment of these six leaders." - David Renton, author of Fascism and The New Authoritarians."The story of the British extreme right, as told in Failed Führers, is, as the title suggests, one of perpetual disappointment, only lightened by occasional, fleeting moments of comparative success....Macklin’s study is the product of exhaustive research. He has a light touch, however, and often gives, by a simple acerbic remark, a sign of the distance he keeps between himself and his subject." - Richard Griffiths, The Critic."Macklin’s Failed Führers is essential reading for any student of British fascism...Macklin’s work explores the peaks and valleys in a well-referenced work that is unlikely to be matched in terms of research and detail anytime soon. It is a highly recommended benchmark study for anyone interested in British fascism." - Ryan Schaffer, Terrorism & Political Violence."All in all, this is a superbly executed study. Macklin has more than fulfilled his promise to illuminate the ideological and strategic evolution of Britain’s fascist tradition, and has also skilfully utilised a transnational lens with which to open up new areas for future scholarship....The book will speedily take its place as a ‘classic’ and must-read study in the main historiography on the topic of Britain’s extreme right, and deservedly so." Steve Woodbridge, Kingston University."Graham Macklin’s Failed Führers is a major new study of the British fascist movement, and will likely be the central reference point for scholars of that movement for the foreseeable future." Spencer Sunshine, Three Way Fight."Macklin has produced an expansive history of fascism in Britain, which demonstrates a breadth of archival research that must have taken many years to undertake. The extensive endnotes for each chapter will surely make other researchers envious. Failed Führers provides the most in-depth and far-reaching history of fascism in post-war Britain since Richard Thurlow’s book, which was last published 20 years ago." - Evan Smith, New Historical Express."The definitive book on British fascist leaders...each chapter offers a well-crafted, expert and extensively referenced analysis of a key figure in British fascism....For any serious academic working in this area, this is certainly essential reading." - Paul Jackson, Searchlight."Containing new material on nearly every one of its subjects and featuring some of the first substantial biographical studies of others, this is as near to an encyclopaedia of the British extreme right as has yet been written. There is little doubt that Failed Führers will become a key reference book for scholars researching in this area for years to come." Liam Liburd, Twentieth Century British History."A monumental new study of British fascism that commands respect across diverse levels: for its sheer archival stamina, its firm grasp of both overview and detail and – not least – for its sheer readability and accessibility....Unlike its subjects, Failed Führers succeeds triumphantly." Tim Wilson, Irish Political Studies."A major tour de force...Each of these chapters is a thorough biography of the political activities of these respective ‘failed Führers’, copiously referenced after each chapter by a plenitude of endnotes, both substantive ones and mere references." Christopher Husbands, Ethnic and Racial Studies."This is a book to read and then to keep for reference. His chronicling of the British Far Right is detailed, thorough and insightful and certainly this reader learned a lot....A tremendous achievement that everyone interested in British Fascism needs to read." John Newsinger, Lobster Magazine."Failed Führers is rigorously researched and built on archival materials that allow for more than a retelling of a familiar story. There is real depth and detail here.....Macklin has combed the archives and sourced a dizzying array of obscure publications to combine personal and political biography into a rich narrative....Macklin has presented an important contribution to our knowledge and understanding." Matthew Worley, Journal of Modern History."Failed Führers is a formidably well-researched and written, detailed analysis that will become one of the key texts for students of political extremism." Daniel Renshaw, Contemporary British History."Graham Macklin has written a massive book, a veritable doorstopper, which runs to almost 600 pages. Nearly twenty per cent of which consists of footnotes.....Failed Fuhrers has been years in the making and I doubt anyone else will have the energy, interest, and stomach to climb this vast ziggurat of often turgid and frequently offensive materials." Colin Holmes, Immigrants and Minorities.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Arnold Leese: The ‘anti-jewish’ camel doctor 2. Oswald Mosley: From ‘Britain First’ to ‘Europe-a-Nation’ 3. A. K. Chesterton: From ‘Fascist Revolutionary’ to ‘Jew-wise’ conspiracy theorist 4. Colin Jordan: Dreaming of the Nazi ‘Vanguard’ 5. John Tyndall: In pursuit of the ‘Anglo-Saxon Reich’ 6. Nick Griffin: From the ‘Third Position’ to anti-Muslim ‘populism’... and back again Conclusion
£128.25
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Politics of Ethnic Nationalism Afrikaner
Book SynopsisThe Politics of Ethnic Nationalism is the first significant local study of National Party and Afrikaner politics. By focusing on Stellenbosch as a university and a town, the book extends our understanding of the complex interaction between the GNP/HNP and various organizations of the radical right. The book illustrates, at a local level and using detailed materials, how identity was constructed through a process of excluding some (English, Jew, Coloured) and including others. In addition, it examines the ways in which Afrikaner nationalists of all shades of political opinion conceptualized their relationships with English-speaking South Africans and the ways that the rhetoric of republicanism and anti-imperialism were employed by nationalists. The study exposes the complex and Byzantine nature of Afrikaner nationalist politics, revealing the multiplicity of identities and ideologies co-existing within Afrikanerdom, the cross-cutting allegiances and overlapping loyaltTable of ContentsIntroduction: An Historiographical Survey 1. A Survey of Afrikaner Nationalist Politics at the National Level, 1934-1948 2. Stellenbosch ‘Stands for an Idea’ 3. Electoral Politics and Stellenbosch’s Parliamentary Representatives 4. Kultuur Reclaimed: Afrikaner Nationalist Politics and the Stellenbosch District, 1934-1939 5. Stellenbosch Students’ Political Activities and Concerns 6. Political Professors: Commissions, Committees and Manifestos 7. The Politicization of the Everyday: Nationalist Afrikanerdom and the Politics of the Stellenbosch District, 1939-1948
£128.25
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Nationalism in Asia
Book SynopsisUsing a comparative, interdisciplinary approach, Nationalism in Asia analyzes currents of nationalism in five contemporary Asian societies: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea.Trade ReviewA "measured, beautifully written book....Kingston's fine survey asks us to ponder [nationalism's] strengths and dangers, and reminds us to be careful of the 'politicians and polemicists' who enthusiastically hawk it." - David McNeill, The Japan TimesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Maps viii Introduction xv Part I National Identity 1 1 The Idea of Nation 3 2 Contemporary Culture Wars and National Identity 16 3 Nation Branding Confronts Troubling Realities 39 Part II Political Economy and Spectacle 57 4 Economic Nationalism 59 5 Democracy and Nationalism 88 6 Sports Nationalism 118 Part III Shackles of the Past 145 7 Chosen and Unchosen Traumas 147 8 Museums and Memorials 170 9 Textbook Nationalism and Memory Wars 196 Part IV Flashpoints and Fringes 217 10 Nationalism and Territorial Disputes 219 11 Nationalism and the Fringes 243 Select Bibliographical Guide to Nationalisms in Asia 273 Index 303
£58.46
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Nationalism in Asia A History Since 1945
Book SynopsisUsing a comparative, interdisciplinary approach, Nationalism in Asia analyzes currents of nationalism in five contemporary Asian societies: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Maps viii Introduction xv Part I National Identity 1 1 The Idea of Nation 3 2 Contemporary Culture Wars and National Identity 16 3 Nation Branding Confronts Troubling Realities 39 Part II Political Economy and Spectacle 57 4 Economic Nationalism 59 5 Democracy and Nationalism 88 6 Sports Nationalism 118 Part III Shackles of the Past 145 7 Chosen and Unchosen Traumas 147 8 Museums and Memorials 170 9 Textbook Nationalism and Memory Wars 196 Part IV Flashpoints and Fringes 217 10 Nationalism and Territorial Disputes 219 11 Nationalism and the Fringes 243 Select Bibliographical Guide to Nationalisms in Asia 273 Index 303
£20.85
The University of Michigan Press Gender Separatist Politics and Embodied
Book SynopsisIlluminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence. The book examines how formally educated women sought to protect the cultural values and the self-determination of the Anglophone Cameroonian state as Francophone Cameroon prepared to dismantle the federal republic.Trade ReviewGender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon offers an engaging and provocative analysis that is attractive and accessible to undergraduate and graduate students. It is clear, lively, nicely spiced with humor, and seasoned with a good mix of clear-eyed analysis and warm empathy. Good cookery for the mind." - Judith Van Allen, Cornell University"Mougoué makes significant contributions to the history of Cameroon, to our understanding of the potential emergence of secessionist movements in Africa, to the way in which gender relations play a role in such historical developments, and to the history of women and girls in Anglophone Africa. Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon is excellent; it is a joy to read." - Gretchen Bauer, University of Delaware
£35.22
University of California Press Divided Loyalties
Book SynopsisDetailing the role played by non-elites, this book presents a perspective on nationalism in the Arab Middle East in the early 20th century. It documents the appearance of the popular committee and examines nationalist politics as a mass phenomenon that informs the politics of the region today.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction PART ONE: THE STRUCTURE OF POLITICAL ORGANIZATION IN FAYSALI SYRIA 1. From "Patriotic Agitation" to the Advent of Mass Politics 2. The Popular Committees PART TWO: NATIONALIST COMMUNITIES OF DISCOURSE 3· The Symbolic Component of Rival Nationalist Discursive Fields 4· The Integrative and Prescriptive Powers of Rival Nationalist Discursive Fields PART THREE: THE CEREMONIES OF NATIONALISMS 5. Mobilization from Above and the Invention of Traditions 6. Demonstrating Communities Conclusions Bibliography Index
£24.65
University of California Press The Jewish State
Book SynopsisElucidates the broad cluster of cultural, historical, and ideological tenets which came to comprise Israel's contemporary political system. This book demonstrates that such tenets were not arbitrary but in fact developed logically from Jewish political habits and the circumstances of time.Trade Review"Not only has Dowty skillfully attached a tremendous amount of data to a sophisticated conceptual framework, but he has also produced a most readable volume. The Jewish State will surely become a core work in the field of Israeli domestic politics." - David Rodman, Israel Affairs "A careful, balanced and often highly insightful analysis of the making and workings of Israeli democracy. The strength of The Jewish State lies in its ability to elucidate the Israeli political system by examining the interaction between traditional Jewish politics, the pressures of security and immigration, ideological and religious conflicts and, not least, the struggle between Jews and Arabs. Dowty has an intimate knowledge of Israeli society and yet maintains the necessary detachment from the kind of political commitment that mars so many works by Israeli scholars." - Times Literary Supplement"Table of ContentsLIST OF MAPS AND TABLES PREFACE TO PAPERBACK EDITION PREFACE PART I · THE SHAPING OF ISRAELI DEMOCRACY 1. Democracy in Israel 2. Jewish Politics 3. The Zionist Revolution 4. Building a Civic State 5. The Filter of Security 6. The Erosion of Ideology PART II · CHALLENGES TO ISRAELI DEMOCRACY 7. The Communal Split 8. Religion and Politics 9. Arabs in Israel 10. The Impact of the West Bank and Gaza EPILOGUE NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
£22.95
University of California Press Chinas New Nationalism
Book SynopsisLooks at the nature of China's nationalism, particularly as it involves Sino-American and Sino-Japanese relations - two bilateral relations that carry extraordinary implications for peace and stability in the twenty-first century.Trade Review"This book admirably fills a glaring gap in our understanding of how to think intelligently about China. Grounding his insights in an extensive survey of recent American and Chinese portrayals of the other country, the author demonstrates convincingly how even specialists can feed the 'fears and fantasies' that shape and distort our respective perceptions and reinforce the stereotypes that complicate the formulation of sound policy. Remarkably, the lessons are as valuable for Chinese readers as for American, for the general public as for the foreign policy expert." - J. Stapleton Roy, former U.S. ambassador to the People's Republic of China"Table of ContentsIntroduction: Dragon-Slayers and Panda-Huggers 1. Saving Face 2. Chinese Identity and "the West" 3. A "Century of Humiliation" 4. The "Kissinger Complex" 5. Victors or Victims? 6. China's Apology Diplomacy 7. Popular Nationalism and the Fate of the Nation 8. Chinese Nationalism and U.S.--China Relations in the Twenty-First Century Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
£21.25
University of California Press Sovereign Intimacy
Book SynopsisIn the early 1990s, Israeli television began dedicating Memorial Day airtime to videos produced by the grieving families of soldiers killed in the line of duty. When these videos first appeared, during a period of growing Israeli discontent with the occupation of southern Lebanon, they were widely perceived as a challenge to the state, reclaiming the dead from Israel's militaristic memory culture by resituating them in intimate domestic contexts via mediated commemorations. By tracing an emerging media system of freelance filmmaking, privatized television, state institutes of care, and grassroots campaigns, Laliv Melamed reveals how these videos nevertheless avoid a fundamental critique of Israeli militarism, which is instead invited into the familiar space of the home. These intimate connections of memory and media exploit bonds of kinship and reshape larger relationships between the state and its citizens, enabling a collective disavowal of colonial violence. InSovereign Intimacy, Melamed offers a poignant and critical view of the weaponization of home media and mourning in service of the neoliberal settler state.Trade Review"A much-welcome intervention. . . . Melamed’s work earnestly reckons with the urgent need to account for the haunting presence of Palestine in Israeli media practices to interrogate the visuality of Israel’s ever-growing colonial violence." * Film Quarterly *Table of ContentsContents Prologue. “OUR SONS” A Note on Sources Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE. SOVEREIGNTY 1. To Keep in Touch 2. Intimate Proxies 3. Scheduled Memories, Programmed Mourning PART TWO. INTIMACY 4. Figures of Speech 5. At Face Value Epilogue. Answering a Call Notes Filmography Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Sovereign Intimacy
Book SynopsisIn the early 1990s, Israeli television began dedicating Memorial Day airtime to videos produced by the grieving families of soldiers killed in the line of duty. When these videos first appeared, during a period of growing Israeli discontent with the occupation of southern Lebanon, they were widely perceived as a challenge to the state, reclaiming the dead from Israel's militaristic memory culture by resituating them in intimate domestic contexts via mediated commemorations. By tracing an emerging media system of freelance filmmaking, privatized television, state institutes of care, and grassroots campaigns, Laliv Melamed reveals how these videos nevertheless avoid a fundamental critique of Israeli militarism, which is instead invited into the familiar space of the home. These intimate connections of memory and media exploit bonds of kinship and reshape larger relationships between the state and its citizens, enabling a collective disavowal of colonial violence. InSovereign Intimacy,Trade Review"A much-welcome intervention. . . . Melamed’s work earnestly reckons with the urgent need to account for the haunting presence of Palestine in Israeli media practices to interrogate the visuality of Israel’s ever-growing colonial violence." * Film Quarterly *Table of ContentsContents Prologue. “OUR SONS” A Note on Sources Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE. SOVEREIGNTY 1. To Keep in Touch 2. Intimate Proxies 3. Scheduled Memories, Programmed Mourning PART TWO. INTIMACY 4. Figures of Speech 5. At Face Value Epilogue. Answering a Call Notes Filmography Bibliography Index
£25.50
Cambridge University Press Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State
Book SynopsisThis 2002 study examines the process by which the seemingly impossible in 1987 - the disintegration of the Soviet state - became the seemingly inevitable by 1991, providing an original interpretation not only of the Soviet collapse, but also of the phenomenon of nationalism more generally.Trade Review'… a very serious analytical work, which, no doubt, will attract the attention of many political scientists, especially those studying political processes in Russia and in the post-Soviet area … important for the understanding of nationalism as a social and political phenomenon.' e-Extreme'… a fresh-minded intervention … fascinating reading …'. Nations and NationalismTable of Contents1. From the impossible to the inevitable; 2. The tide and the mobilizational cycle; 3. Structuring nationalism; 4. 'Thickened' history and the mobilization of identity; 5. Tides and the failure of nationalist mobilization; 6. Violence and tides of nationalism; 7. The transcendence of regimes of repression; 8. Russian mobilization and the accumulating 'inevitability' of Soviet collapse; 9. Conclusion: nationhood and event.
£34.99
Cambridge University Press Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s
Book SynopsisIn this book Andrew Wilson examines the phenomenon of Ukrainian nationalism and its influence on the politics of independent Ukraine, arguing that historical, ethnic and linguistic factors limit the appeal of narrow ethno-nationalism, even to many ethnic Ukrainians.Trade Review'This study on Ukrainian nationalism fills an important research gap and covers an enormous amount of original historical and political material. … All in all, this is a book that will soon be a standard item in the field of Ukrainian studies. In many ways it can even be used as a kind of encyclopaedia.' Gwendolyn Sasse, London School of EconomicsTable of Contents1. Ukraine: historical roots of diversity; 2. Ukrainian nationalism in the modern era; 3. Channels of nationalist discourse: political parties, civil society; 4. National communism; 5. A minority faith: the limits to nationalist support; 6. The nationalist agenda: domestic politics, Ukrainianisation and the state; 7. The nationalist agenda: external affairs - untying the Russian knot; 8. Conclusions: Nationalism and national consolidation.
£30.99
Cambridge University Press The Eritrean Struggle for Independence
Book SynopsisEritrea, the newest nation state in Africa, gained independence from the Ethiopian state after a prolonged and bitter conflict. This is a comprehensive analysis of the country's political history over the past three decades. It charts the development of the various nationalist movements involved in the struggle for independence.Trade Review"A straightforward, competent account of the development and eventual triumph of the Eritrean independence movement." Foreign Affairs"This book is an excellent contribution to the extant literature on Africa's newest independent state. It is remarkable in that, although it is written by an Eritrean national, it moves beyond the generally partisan and polemical pieces that tended to characterize discussions of the Eritrean question after the Second World War....this work is must-reading for students of the politics of the Horn of Africa." International History Review"It is a fine piece of work...The Eritrean Struggle contain[s] valuable data and analysis which make this book important and timely...Ruth Iyob's book is an excellent contribution to the historiography of the Horn of Africa. The book is well researched and remarkably well written." The Historian"It is a fine piece of work which introduces new data and new perspectives on Eritrea's successful struggle for independence....Ruth Iyob's book is an excellent contribution to the historiography of the Horn of Africa. The book is well researched and remarkably well-written." James C. McCann, The Historian"Iyob's The Eritrean Struggle for Independance, 1941-1993 provides a clear introduction to the major external and internal political developments during the half-century struggle for Eritrean self-determination." Tom Killion, The International Journal of African Historical SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Maps; Introduction; I: 1. The Eritrean question in perspective; 2. Regional hegemony in the post World War II order; 3. Eritrea and the African order; II: 4. The origins of the Eritrean conflict; 5. The federation years, 1952–1962; 6. Secular nationalism: the creative radicalism of the ELM; 7. Defiant nationalism: the ELF and the EPLF, 1961–1981; 8. The EPLF's quest for legitimacy; 9. Building the Eritrean polity; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
£23.74
Cambridge University Press Fatherlands
Book SynopsisFatherlands explores the nature of identity in nineteenth-century Germany, and has crucial implications for our understanding of nationalism, German unification and the German state in the modern era. It approaches these questions from a new angle, that of the non-national territorial state, exploring the state-building process in non-Prussian Germany.Trade Review'… it will be a great success which will make many stimulating contributions to early modern and modern European history … elegant, persuasive, and eminently readable … Abigail Green has succeeded in moving the goal posts for any enquiry into the growth of nationalism and the persistence of particularism in Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century.' Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, London'… closely argued and tremendously well researched … It should become required reading for those interested in the development of German nationalism … The book deserves to have a major impact.' Nations and Nationalism'State-building and nationhood are among German historiography's most durable subjects, but in Abigail Green's fine book we see them in a strikingly new context.' The English Historical Review'Green has devised a challenging but worthwhile and manageable comparative historical project.' German History'… for scholars interested in nationalism, state formation, or nineteenth-century Germany, this book is indispensable.' Journal of Social HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Variations of German experience: Hanover, Saxony and Württemberg; 2. Modernising monarchy; 3. Cultures of the fatherland; 4. Propaganda; 5. Educating patriots; 6. Communications; 7. Imagined identities; 8. Nationhood; Conclusion.
£99.75
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Politics of Fear
Book SynopsisFrom the author of Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies, a probing exploration of the bizarre and dangerous conspiracies that have roiled America over the past decade and captured the minds of so many AmericansSome of the conspiracy theories now gripping American politics contend that Joe Biden was executed and replaced by a clone and that John F. Kennedy Jr., faked his death and will one day return to slay Trump’s enemies. But who is susceptible to them, and what makes them so politically potent?Investigating the historical roots of our peculiar brand of political paranoia, Arthur Goldwag helps us make sense of the senseless and, in so doing, uncovers three uncomfortable truths: that it is older than Trumpism and will outlast it; that theocratic authoritarianism is as hardwired in our American heritage as the principles of the Enlightenment; and that the fear that our system is “rigged” is not altogether unfounded. A probing, surprising, and critical examination of America’s paranoid style, The Politics of Fear sheds new light on the age-old question: What exactly are we so afraid of?
£15.20
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Nationalism
Book SynopsisTraces the philosophical foundations of the nationalist doctrine, the conditions which gave rise to it, and the political consequences of its spread in Europe and elsewhere.Trade Review"An indispensable text for a university student or anyone else who wishes to understand nationalism." Norman Wintrop, AJPHTable of ContentsEditorial Foreward. Introduction to the Fourth Edition. Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the First edition. 1. Politics in a new style. 2. Self determination. 3. State and the individual. 4. The excellence of diversity. 5. National self determination. 6. Nationalism and politics: I. 7. Nationalism and politics: II. Afterword. Further Reading. Index.
£35.06
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Encounters with Nationalism
Book SynopsisThe forecast demise of nationalism under the new moral orders of communism and internationalism has proved illusory. In the present century, to an extent greater perhaps than in all others, nationalism has been the dominant force in the affairs of humankind.Trade Review"It is most of all for Gellner's willingness to confront rival explanations of nationalism that this collection is so compelling." Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. 1. Nationalism and Marxism. 2. Nationalism and the International Order. 3. From Kinship to Ethnicity. 4. The Betrayal of the Universal. 5. The Sacred and the National. 6. A Non-nationalist Pole. 7. Kemalism. 8. Enlightenment Against Faith. 9. The Price of Velvet: Tomas Masaryk and Vaclav Havel. 10. Reborn from below: The Forgotten Beginnings of the Czech National Revival. 11. The Nazi Jew-lover. 12. The Mightier Pen: The Double Standards of Inside-out Colonalism. 13. From the Ruins of the Great Contest: Civil Society, Nationalism and Islam. 14. An Alternative Vision. Index.
£36.86
John Wiley and Sons Ltd States Nations and Nationalism
Book SynopsisThe first general history of the evolution of states and nations in Europe from medieval times to the present. Written by one of the foremost of Germany's youngest generation of historians.Trade Review"Schulze's book is clearly aimed at a wide readership and is likely to be used widely in undergraduate courses on European history." History "Schulze demonstrates a high level of competence in tracing the growth of the nation and the state from the time of Charlemagne to the reign of Napoleon. But it is in his account of that point in the early 19th century when the nation and state fuse that his book achieves brilliance." ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface. Series Editor's Preface. Part I: States:. 1. The Advent of the Modern State. 2. Christianity and Reasons of State. 3. Leviathan. 4. The Constitutional State and the Rule of Law. Part II: Nations:. 5. The 'Nation' is not just any Nation. 6. Nation States and National Cultures. 7. The Pivotal Period. 8. The Invention of the 'Folk Nation'. 9. The Folk Nations in Reality. Part III: Nation States:. 10. The Revolutionary Nation State (1815-1871). 11. The Imperial Nation State (1871-1914). 12. The Total Nation State (1914-1945). Part IV: Nations, States and Europe:. 13. Nations, States and Europe. Notes. Bibliography. Index of Names.
£30.56
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Globalization and Identity
Book SynopsisGlobalization and Identity are an explosive combination, demonstrated by recent outbursts of communalist violence in many parts of the world. Their varying articulations highlight the paradox that accelerating global flows of goods, persons and images go together with determined efforts towards closure, emphasis on cultural difference and fixing of identities. This collection explores this paradox of ''flow'' and ''closure'' through a series of detailed case studies in comparative perspective.Trade Review"This mixture of the empirical and the theoretical as well as the emphasis on globalization as an ambivalent situation of flow and closure are the main strengths of this volume and as such it serves as a useful introduction to the topic, not least to those are put off by the overly theoretical approaches usually associated with the subject matter." John Walliss, Bookends "The immense merit of this volume to readers who are not steeped in the debates about globalization is that it makes the subject relevant to concerns widely shared in the world today. It is also easily comprehensible, with its, on the whole, enlightening case-studies." Patrick Chabal, International Affairs " With a rich confluence of diverse empirical material with social theory, the writers in this volume have made a strong and timely anthology for those interested in globalization or identity studies" Matthew Kurtz, University of Alaska AnchorageTable of ContentsIntroduction. (Birgit Meyer and Peter Geshiere). Nationalism and Transnationalism. Cirassian Encounters: The Self as Other and the Production of the Homeland in the North Caucasus. (Seteney Shami). Transnationalism in the Era of Nation-States: China, 1900-1945. (Prasenjit Duara). The French Colonial Policy of Assimilation and the Civility of the Originaires of the Four Communes (Senegal): A Nineteenth Century Globalization Project. (Mamadou Diouf). Enforcing the Human Rights of Citizens and Non-Citizens in the Era of Maastricht: Some Reflections on the Importance of States. (Jacqueline Bhabha). Commodities and Fantasies. Small Product, Big Issues: Value Contestations and Cultural Identities in Cross-Border Commodity Networks. Commodities and the Power of Prayer: Pentecostalist Attitudes Towards Consumption in Contemporary Ghana. (Birgit Meyer). Domesticating Diamonds and Dollars: Identity, Expenditure and Sharing in Southwestern Zaire (1984-1997). (Filip De Boeck). Globalization and the Power of Indeterminate Meaning: Witchcraft and Spirit Cults in Africa and East Asia. (Peter Geschiere). Theoretical Reflections. Time and the Global: Against the Homogeneous, Empty Communities in Contemporary Social Theory. John D. Kelly. Globalization and Virtuality: Analytical Problems Posed by the Contemporary Transformation of African Societies. (Wim van Binsbergen). Dead Certainty: Ethnic Violence in the Era of Globalization. (Arjun Appadurai). Epilogue: On Some Reports from a Free Space. (Ulf Hannerz). Notes on Contributors. Index
£19.71
Wiley Globalism Regionalism and Nationalism
Book Synopsis* Brings together contributions from leading Asian, North American and European scholars. * Presents varied perspectives on globalization, regionalism and nationalism particularly from the viewpoint of Asia. * Offers new insights into Asian perspectives on international affairs. .Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Foreward: Hideo Sato (University of Tsukuba). Presidential addresses from the 1998 conference of the Japan Association of International Relations and the International Studies Association. Introduction: Yoshinobu Yamamoto. 1. Globalization, Regionalism and Nationalism: Asia in Search of its Role in the 21st Century: Takehiko Kamo (deceased - former President of JAIR). 2. Avoiding Choices, Pursuing Opportunities: Asia in International Affairs, 1996 and 1998: Davis B. Bobrow (University of Pittsburgh, former President of ISA). 3. Collective Identity and Epochal Change in the International System: Rodney Bruce Hall (University of Pennsylvania). 4. Challenges of the Responses to Globalization:the Case of South East Asia: Prasert Chittiwatanapong. 5. Transnational Flows of People and International Exchange: Phenomena and Activities: Kenichiro Hirano (Waseda University). 6. Regionalism in East Asia and the Asia- Pacific: Ryuhei Hatsuse. 7. Japan and Micro-regionalism: Constructing the Japan Sea Rim Zone: Glenn D. Hook. 8. International Relations Theory and Chinese Foreign Policy: Tatsumi Okabe. 9. China and Japan in Search of their Roles in the 21st Century: Regionalism and Globalism: Shigeaki Uno (Seikei University). 10. Three Faces of Japan: Nationalist, Regionalist, Globalist Futures: Tsuneo Akaha (Monterey Institute of International Policy Studies). 11. The Impact of Changes in the International System on Domestic Politics: The Case of Japan in the 1990s: Shigeko N. Fukai (Okayama University). 12. Japan's Approach to Gender and Development: Plurality in Development Cooperation Policy and Practices: Satoko Kurata (Center for International Cooperation, Tokyo).
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Arab Nationalism
Book SynopsisThis is a much needed, concise survey of Arab nationalism both as an historical movement and a doctrine. The author identifies the particular characteristics and development of Arab nationalism and provides a wide-ranging history.Trade Review"[Choueiri] provides a wealth of detail based on the writings of al-Miqdadi, Ghurbal ... and many others. Largely expository in style, his book describes what they have to say about the Arab nation and about the political programmes needed to realize its potential. In doing so, he brings out the differences among them and sympathetically assesses the problems many encountered." Times Literary Supplement "Recommended particularly for university libraries and those interested in political theory and Middle East studies." CHOICE "Arab Nationalism is a well-written, fact-filled book that constitutes a useful single-volume study of the evolution of Arabism. It is well-suited for readers who have in interest in the international nuances and development of nationalism and for those Middle East history enthusiasts who wish to delve into a more specialized topic." History: Reviews of New BooksTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. Glossary. 1. Nationalism and Its Theories. The World of Unbelief and Negative Approaches. Rousseau's Passion. Kant's Guilt. The World of Positive Belief. A Question of Dignity. The Agnostics or Reluctantly Neutral. 2. Narrating the Nation. Lessons of History. The Rise of Islam. The Modern Age. Darwish al-Miqdadi: The Nation in History. Historical Structures. Lessons of History and Temporal Distances. An Egyptian Perspective. Islam and Arabism. 3. Cultural and Political Arabism. The Ottoman Background and European Rivalry. Cultural Arabism. The Fatherland and Patriotism. The Cultural and the Political. Political Arabism 1900-1945. Articulation of Pan-Arabism. Political Parties. 4. Educating the Nation: Sati' al-Husri. The Arab League. What is Nationalism?. 5. In Search of Theory. Regionalism. An Arab Polity. Al-Arsuzi: Language and Industry. Shahbandar: Leadership and Revolution. Michel 'Aflaq: The Vanguard. Socialism. Nationalism. Religion. New Politics. 6. Socialism and Pan-Arabism. The World of Social Arab Nationalism. Nasserism. Political Orientations. Theory and Practice. The Universal and the Specific. Ba'thism. 7. Epilogue: Civil Society and Democracy. Neo-Arabism. Notes. List of Dynasties. Further Reading. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Nations and Identities
Book SynopsisThis work brings together selections from some of the most significant writings on the idea of national identity over the last 400 years. Beginning with Hobbes's and Locke's early formulations of the modern state, the excerpts chosen illustrate the rich history of the national idea.Trade Review"Pecora is an extremely thoughtful, intelligent, and substantial scholar. This book will be enormously helpful to students and teachers in colonial and postcolonial studies. The selections are wide-ranging and acutely chosen, and will allow students to connect history to the present, or better still, to see the present as part of a continuing, questionable history." Michael Wood, Princeton University "This is a timely, reader-friendly anthology that should be widely used both for academic and for more general purposes. It offers 'classic readings,' as well as a range of 'contemporary perspectives.' The introduction provides a clear overview from the 1600s down to our postcolonial and transnational moment." Patrick Brantlinger, Indiana University "Providing an excellent selection of key documents from Hobbes's Leviathan (1651)to Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism (1993), Nations and Identities offers the reader genuine insight into the way problems of nation-building and unbuilding, identity-formation and deformation have been addressed across time. Pecora introduces the anthology with an incisive essay that outlines major issues shaping the contemporary discussion of nations and national identity. This book will be of great value for its readers both in courses and across the disciplines." Dominick LaCapra, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction: Vincent P. Pecora. Part I: Inventing the Modern State:. 1. Leviathan (1651): Thomas Hobbes. 2. Two Treatises of Government (1690): John Locke. Part II: From Divine to Human History:. 3. The New Science (1725; 1744): Giambattista Vico. 4. The Spirit of the Laws (1748): Charles Louis de Secondat (Baron de Montesquieu). 5. The Social Contract, Origin of Inequality, and Government of Poland (1754-72): Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 6. Dissertations on Ossian (1763): James Macpherson. 7. Ideas for a Philosophy of History of Mankind (1784-91): Johann Gottfried von Herder. 8. Discourse on the Hindus (1786): Sir William Jones. 9. Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790): Edmund Burke. Part III: The Spirit of a People:. 10. Study on Sovereignty (Composed 1793-8; First Published 1884): Joseph de Maistre. 11. Addresses to the German Nation (1808): Johann Gottlieb Fichte. 12. The Philosophy of History (1830-1): G. W. F. Hegel. 13. The Inequality of Human Races (1854): Arthur de Gobineau. 14. Considerations on Representative Government (1861): John Stuart Mill. 15. Nationality (1862): John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton. 16. To the Italians (1871): Giuseppe Mazzini. 17 What is a Nation? (1882): Ernest Renan. 18. Our America (1891): José Martí. 19. The Jewish State (1896): Theodor Herzl. 20. The Conservation of Races (1897): W. E. B. Du Bois. 21. Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899): Houston Stewart Chamberlain. Part IV: Nations at the End of Empires:. 22. Home Rule, Enlightened Anarchy, and National Language (1909-39): Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. 23. The Right of Nations to Self-Determination (1914): V. I. Lenin. 24. Addresses: The Fourteen Points and League of Nations (1918-19): Woodrow Wilson. 25. Aims and Objects of Movement for Solution of Negro Problem (1924): Marcus Garvey. 26. The Myth of the Twentieth Century (1930): Alfred Rosenberg. 27 Three Guineas (1938): Virginia Woolf. 28. Discourse on Colonialism (1955): Aimé Césaire. 29 On National Culture (1959): Frantz Fanon. Part V: Contemporary Perspectives:. 30. The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States (1963): Clifford Geertz. 31. Nations and Nationalism (1983): Ernest Gellner. 32. Imagined Communities (1983): Benedict Anderson. 33. The Riddle of Midnight: India, August 1987: Salman Rushdie. 34. The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question (1987): Partha Chatterjee. 35. The Origins of Nations (1989): Anthony D. Smith. 36. A Kind of Scar: The Woman Poet in a National Tradition (1989): Eavan Boland. 37. Narrating the Nation (1990): Homi K. Bhabha. 38. Culture and Imperialism (1993): Edward W. Said. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Nations and Identities
Book SynopsisThis work brings together selections from some of the most significant writings on the idea of national identity over the last 400 years. Beginning with Hobbes's and Locke's early formulations of the modern state, the excerpts chosen illustrate the rich history of the national idea.Trade Review"Pecora is an extremely thoughtful, intelligent, and substantial scholar. This book will be enormously helpful to students and teachers in colonial and postcolonial studies. The selections are wide-ranging and acutely chosen, and will allow students to connect history to the present, or better still, to see the present as part of a continuing, questionable history." Michael Wood, Princeton University "This is a timely, reader-friendly anthology that should be widely used both for academic and for more general purposes. It offers 'classic readings,' as well as a range of 'contemporary perspectives.' The introduction provides a clear overview from the 1600s down to our postcolonial and transnational moment." Patrick Brantlinger, Indiana University "Providing an excellent selection of key documents from Hobbes's Leviathan (1651)to Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism (1993), Nations and Identities offers the reader genuine insight into the way problems of nation-building and unbuilding, identity-formation and deformation have been addressed across time. Pecora introduces the anthology with an incisive essay that outlines major issues shaping the contemporary discussion of nations and national identity. This book will be of great value for its readers both in courses and across the disciplines." Dominick LaCapra, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction: Vincent P. Pecora. Part I: Inventing the Modern State:. 1. Leviathan (1651): Thomas Hobbes. 2. Two Treatises of Government (1690): John Locke. Part II: From Divine to Human History:. 3. The New Science (1725; 1744): Giambattista Vico. 4. The Spirit of the Laws (1748): Charles Louis de Secondat (Baron de Montesquieu). 5. The Social Contract, Origin of Inequality, and Government of Poland (1754-72): Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 6. Dissertations on Ossian (1763): James Macpherson. 7. Ideas for a Philosophy of History of Mankind (1784-91): Johann Gottfried von Herder. 8. Discourse on the Hindus (1786): Sir William Jones. 9. Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790): Edmund Burke. Part III: The Spirit of a People:. 10. Study on Sovereignty (Composed 1793-8; First Published 1884): Joseph de Maistre. 11. Addresses to the German Nation (1808): Johann Gottlieb Fichte. 12. The Philosophy of History (1830-1): G. W. F. Hegel. 13. The Inequality of Human Races (1854): Arthur de Gobineau. 14. Considerations on Representative Government (1861): John Stuart Mill. 15. Nationality (1862): John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton. 16. To the Italians (1871): Giuseppe Mazzini. 17 What is a Nation? (1882): Ernest Renan. 18. Our America (1891): José Martí. 19. The Jewish State (1896): Theodor Herzl. 20. The Conservation of Races (1897): W. E. B. Du Bois. 21. Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899): Houston Stewart Chamberlain. Part IV: Nations at the End of Empires:. 22. Home Rule, Enlightened Anarchy, and National Language (1909-39): Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. 23. The Right of Nations to Self-Determination (1914): V. I. Lenin. 24. Addresses: The Fourteen Points and League of Nations (1918-19): Woodrow Wilson. 25. Aims and Objects of Movement for Solution of Negro Problem (1924): Marcus Garvey. 26. The Myth of the Twentieth Century (1930): Alfred Rosenberg. 27 Three Guineas (1938): Virginia Woolf. 28. Discourse on Colonialism (1955): Aimé Césaire. 29 On National Culture (1959): Frantz Fanon. Part V: Contemporary Perspectives:. 30. The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States (1963): Clifford Geertz. 31. Nations and Nationalism (1983): Ernest Gellner. 32. Imagined Communities (1983): Benedict Anderson. 33. The Riddle of Midnight: India, August 1987: Salman Rushdie. 34. The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question (1987): Partha Chatterjee. 35. The Origins of Nations (1989): Anthony D. Smith. 36. A Kind of Scar: The Woman Poet in a National Tradition (1989): Eavan Boland. 37. Narrating the Nation (1990): Homi K. Bhabha. 38. Culture and Imperialism (1993): Edward W. Said. Index.
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Harvard University Press Reinventing Russia
Book SynopsisBrudny argues that the rise of the Russian nationalist movement was a combined result of the reinvention of Russian national identity by a group of intellectuals, and the Communist Party's active support of this reinvention in order to gain greater political legitimacy.Trade ReviewMr. Brudny provides a salient background to understanding one of the great phenomena of post-1945 history: how Russians arrive at their view of the West. -- Ron Laurenzo * Washington Times *Brudny is a good guide to the origins of what probably lies ahead. -- Geoffrey A. Hosking * Times Literary Supplement *If readers think that today's anti-Western, antimarket, antisemitic variety of Russian nationalism is simply the fallout from the country's current misery, they should think again. With care and intelligence, Brudny traces its lineage back to the Khrushchev years. What began among the so-called village prose writers as a lament for a rural past ravaged by Stalin's experimentation gradually accumulated further grievances: the devastation of Russian culture and monuments, the infiltration of 'corrupting' Western values, and ultimately under Gorbechev the 'criminal' destruction of Russian power. Much of the book concentrates on how Khrushchev and Brezhnev tried--but ultimately failed--to harness this discontent for their own purposes. -- Robert Legvold * Foreign Affairs *Brudny's survey of relations between Russian nationalism and the Soviet state provides an in-depth insight into one of the most complicated aspects of the Soviet multi-national state. -- Taras Kuzio * International Affairs *A thought-provoking book. * Virginia Quarterly *Brudny shows that Russian cultural nationalism was a powerful force in the post-Stalin years, with ultimate political consequences. In meticulous detail Brudny sets out the various strains of Russian nationalism and points to the regime's encouragement of a certain kind of nationalism as a means of bolstering legitimacy through the 'politics of inclusion'...This volume is a significant contribution to the literature. -- R. J. Mitchell * Choice *In Reinventing Russia, situated at the intersection of culture (specifically the literature of the village prose movement) and politics, Brudny has managed admirably to draw out the wider implications of his inquiry and provided an extremely useful set of orientation points in the current, seemingly so chaotic, political debate in Russia. -- Hans J. Rindisbacher * European Legacy *Brudny's book paints a fascinating picture. It delineates a rich Soviet culture and society, one that is much more varied than has been previously depicted by most Western researchers. The overriding importance of the book derives from its argument that the post-Stalinist cultural debate in the Soviet Union is what created the infrastructure for the seemingly odd alliance between communist ideology and the nationalist intelligentsia--today's 'red-brown' alliance. It's a significant contribution to our understanding of the history of the nationalist idea...[Reinventing Russia provides] an enthralling overview of a historic development that has been neglected by most Western researchers...His book proves once more that anyone who seeks to understand developments in Eastern Europe cannot do so by merely analyzing the economic policy of the political maneuvers of the governing elite. -- Shlomo Avineri * Ha'aretz Book Review *Yitzhak Brudny offers us a most persuasive attempt to explain the intricate, often puzzling relation between Soviet political and cultural bureaucracy and the rise of Russian nationalism in the post-Stalin era. His analysis of Russian nationalist ideology and its role in the corrosion of the official Soviet dogmas is uniquely insightful and provocative. Students of Soviet and post-Soviet affairs will find in Brudny's splendidly researched book an indispensable instrument to grasp the meaning of the still perplexing developments that led to the breakdown of the Leninist state. In the growing body of literature dealing with nationalism and national identity, this one stands out as boldly innovative, theoretically challenging, and culturally sophisticated. -- Vladimir Tismaneanu, University of Maryland, College Park, author of Fantasies of SalvationYitzhak Brudny has produced an impressive and scholarly account of the divisions within the Russian political and cultural elite during the last four decades of the Soviet Union's existence. His book is important both for the fresh light it throws on that period and as essential context for interpreting the debates on nationhood and statehood which rage in Russia today. -- Archie Brown, University of OxfordReinventing Russia provides us with a vivid portrayal of the politics behind the rise of Russian nationalism in post-Stalinist Russia. It is a finely detailed study of not only the relationship of political authority to the spread of nationalist ideas, but also reciprocally of the role played by these ideas in shaping the political. -- Mark Beissinger, University of Wisconsin-MadisonRival nationalists literally shook the Soviet Union apart. The very structure of the Soviet state encouraged all major ethnic groups--including the Russians--to view battles over resources in terms of ethnic and national conflict. Brudny, in this important study, explores precisely how rival nationalist claims emerged during the years following Stalin's death, and why they proved to be simultaneously so robust and pernicious. -- Blair Ruble, Director, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson CenterThe strength of Yitzhak M. Brudny's book, Reinventing Russia, is its explanation of how Russian Nationalists worked to advance their causes from the time of Stalin's death to the Soviet Union's demise. -- Cpt. Todd Laughman, USAF * Military Review *His analysis is enriched by Soviet archival materials recently made available; by examination of an immense range of published materials; and by interviews in Russia beginning in 1989. Consequently, the book will be very helpful for all concerned with the final decades of the Soviet system and its immediate aftermath in the Russian Republic. -- John A. Armstrong * Journal of Modern History *Yizhak Brudnyadds a new intellectual perspective to previous explications of Russian nationalism by illuminating the relationship between nationalist writers and the state. Unlike other scholars, who have analyzed Russian nationalism from an economic or sociological starting point, Brudny addresses his treatment on the idea that in communist societies the "politics of culture" achieves an unprecedented importance...Reinventing Russia breaks much new ground, transcending earlier studies and illuminating recent Russian political culture through the medium of intellectual history. -- Todd Lee * History *In his excellent book Reinventing Russia: Russian Nationalism and the Soviet State, 1953-1991, historian Yitzhak Brudny demonstrates how post-Stalinist Soviet leaders used nationalism to fill the ideological gaps left by Marxism-Leninism, which was losing its power to inspire the population. -- Amy Knight * Globe and Mail *In his excellent book Reinventing Russia: Russian Nationalism and the Soviet State, 1953-1991, historian Yitzhak Brudny demonstrates how post-Stalinist Soviet leaders used nationalism to fill the ideological gaps left by Marxism-Leninism, which was losing its power to inspire the population. -- Amy Knight * Globe and Mail *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Russian Nationalists in Soviet Politics 2. The Emergence of Politics by Culture, 1953-1964 3. The First Phase of Inclusionary Politics, 1965-1970 4. The Rise and Fall of Inclusionary Politics, 1971-1985 5. What Went Wrong with the Politics of Inclusion? 6. What Is Russia, and Where Should It Go? Political Debates, 1971-1985 7. The Zenith of Politics by Culture, 1985-1989 8. The Demise of Politics by Culture, 1989-1991 Epilogue: Russian Nationalism in Postcommunist Russia Notes Index
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Harvard University, Asia Center China Made
Book SynopsisIn the early 20th century, China began to import and then to manufacture thousands of consumer goods. Politicians feared trade deficits. Intellectuals feared loss of national sovereignty. And manufacturers wondered how they could survive a flood of cheap imports. Gerth argues that the responses of these groups helped foster modern nationalism.
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Harvard University Press The Ukrainian West
Book SynopsisMonths before crowds in Moscow dismantled monuments to Lenin, residents of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv toppled theirs. Risch argues that Soviet politics of empire created this anti-Soviet city, and that opposition from the periphery as much as from the imperial center was instrumental in unraveling the Soviet Union.Trade ReviewRisch's examination of the political, social, and cultural history of Lviv—one of the major Soviet windows on the West—is unmatched in its detail and depth of understanding. His analysis of the rise of nonconformist trends in the sphere of popular culture heralds a welcome addition to the history of Soviet society in the post-World War II era. -- Serhii Plokhii, Harvard UniversityAn intriguing account of cultural life in Lviv. This work stands out as the best introduction to the city's recent history in English. Risch makes an important contribution to Soviet, Ukrainian, East European, borderlands, and urban history alike. -- Mark von Hagen, Arizona State University
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Harvard University Press Changing Homelands
Book SynopsisNeeti Nair’s account of the partition in the Punjab rejects the idea that essential differences between the Hindu and Muslim communities made political settlement impossible. Far from being an inevitable solution, partition—though advocated by some powerful Hindus—was a stunning surprise to the majority of Hindus in the region.Trade ReviewThis engagingly written book places Punjabi Hindus at the center of Partition scholarship. Nair’s often devastating examination of the complex considerations and unfathomable burdens that weighed on the minds of millions as they ‘chose’ to migrate reveals fresh thinking about religion and politics in South Asia. -- Mridu Rai, author of Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights, and the History of KashmirNair’s powerful book claims that for Punjab’s Hindus there was nothing inevitable about the coming of partition. She offers new and challenging interpretations of major events and personalities, which will transform our understandings of Punjab’s relationship to the Indian nationalist movement. Her discussion of Punjab’s partition and the subsequent memory of partition among Delhi Hindus is a tour de force. -- David Gilmartin, author of Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of PakistanThe well-researched study, providing a wealth of information drawn from a wide variety of sources, serves more than a purely academic purpose. It gives the lay reader a clearer understanding of the subcontinent’s history in its crucial phase, the part of history that continues to be distorted by diverse groups of holy crusaders. -- J. Sri Raman * The Hindu *Historian Neeti Nair’s Changing Homelands, a fine addition to the new generation of Partition scholarship, adeptly navigates sensitive historical terrain to shed new light on the complicated story of Punjab’s Hindus, and the relation of Punjab to the larger Indian national movement… Nair traces the evolution of the term ‘communalism’ in anti-colonial nationalist politics from the first decade of the twentieth century, thereby complicating the easy synonymy the term has come to occupy with exclusionary bigotry today. This is crucial work if we are to dissipate the polarized debates that we have inherited and often perpetuate. In excavating the role played by the politics of Punjab’s influential Hindu minority, even as she attempts to impart multiple dimensions to the key players and situations involved, Nair puts forward an original, bold and responsible interpretation which adds considerably to the existing literature that focuses overwhelmingly on Muslim politics and the role of the British in ‘explaining’ Partition and the inception of communal politics in India. -- Sahana Ghosh * Contemporary South Asia *An extremely able work. -- A. G. Noorani * Frontline *Gives you new food for thought. -- Syed Badrul Ahsan * Daily Star *Neeti Nair confidently handles the tangled responses of Punjabi Hindu politicians to the issue of minority rights and safeguards in the late colonial era, thereby shedding fresh light on Punjab’s relationship to the Indian nationalist movement… Nair consults a variety of source materials and offers original interpretations for her readers. -- Ian Talbot * American Historical Review *The book makes a serious claim that the partition of Punjab should not be seen merely in relation to the ‘known’ politics of the Muslim League; rather, to understand the events of 1947, one needs to look at the complex politics of colonial Punjab, particularly the ideas, beliefs and moves of those Punjabi leaders, who claimed to represent the interests of ‘Hindus.’ …The modes by which ‘politics,’ an organized and collective activity, is performed in a colonial context is another important and perhaps the most fascinating theme of the book. One finds an engaging discussion on three well-known political figures—Lala Lajpat Rai, Swami Shraddhanand and Bhagat Singh. Nair does not take the conventional route to approach these figures; rather, she tries to place them in their own context to unpack those political aspects, which are not associated with the established images of these leaders… Nair makes a powerful claim that the given histories of Partition need to be questioned to understand the processual nature of such events. In this sense, Nair makes a serious contribution to Partition Studies—an emerging field of intellectual engagement with histories and memories of the Partition of the Indian subcontinent. -- Hilal Ahmed * The Book Review *[Changing Homelands] challenges the conventional understanding on the political causes leading to division of a nation into two… [Nair’s] account is to a large extent groundbreaking and adds a new perspective to the existing discourse on India’s partition. There is an underlying inquisitiveness embedded throughout this exhaustive account for which the author deserves critical appreciation… The author’s arguments are imposing and sure to draw attention. Her language is clear and engaging and her bibliography offers a rich assortment including several primary documents which authenticate the narrative and add further value to the overall broader arguments. -- Priyanka Singh * Canadian Journal of History *Neeti Nair has written a comprehensive and complex history of the Punjabi Hindus in the first half of the twentieth century. Changing Homelands begins by tracing the rise of communalism in the 1920s and ends with partition in the 1940s. The author has offered new insights about the role of prominent personalities, like Swami Shraddhanand, Lajpat Rai, and Bhagat Singh… Changing Homelands is…a valuable account of the partition of the Punjab. More important, Nair’s book is probably the most substantial and nuanced history of urban Punjabi Hindus that has been written so far. She will be widely read. -- Rohit Wanchoo * H-Net Reviews *Neeti Nair’s Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India raises the pivotal question of Punjabi Hindus who, being ‘suddenly’ rendered a minority in their land, had to migrate to what became/remained India. The case of the Punjabi Hindus is atypical—they were minority Hindus in Muslim-majority Punjab, who had to migrate to become part of a majoritarian Hindu community in India. In India today, where Muslims constitute the major minority, it is hard to imagine Hindus as a minority. The book can help us imagine, across time, the fate of such a large minoritarian Punjabi Hinduism. This is historically significant as the present state of minority Hinduism in Pakistan (chiefly in Sindh) is too miniscule to provide a useful comparative point of analysis. Nair’s book helps sensitize us to the enormous contingency of majority and minority formation—and perhaps no question is more significant for South Asian polities today…Nair’s book demonstrates the compound causal assemblages and nexuses that led to Partition rather than the teleology of ‘communalism’—and the chief value of this type of analysis might lie in the fact that the identified political elements can then be meaningfully re-assembled in a way that can moderate conflict, guilt and misunderstanding in the present. -- Nikhil Govind * India International Centre Quarterly *It is in this emphasis on the heterogeneous history of nationalism and Partition, and in its contestation of the exclusivity of categories like communal, anti-colonial or nationalist that this book can claim its distinctive place in South Asian historiography… In recent years a number of historians have argued about the nation living in heterogeneous time. This book buttresses that argument with significant empirical evidence, culled from conventional archives as well as retrieved through oral history methods. In that sense, it is an important addition to the genre of Partition literature. -- Sekhar Bandyopadhyay * Indian Historical Review *Drawing on an impressively wide range of archival sources, Changing Homelands gives us a compelling account of the contingent and far-from-inevitable onset of partition in Punjab. -- Nikhil Rao * Journal of Asian Studies *This book is an important addition to the field of ‘Partition Studies’ that has sought to complicate the earlier historiographical silences around the 1947 Partition of India and its narrativization as an aberrational moment of insanity in an otherwise non-violent history of Indian national independence. Nair’s revisionist attention to the warp and weft of religious anticolonial politics in early twentieth century Punjab illuminates the disjunctures and differences between the power negotiations among religiously defined Punjabi communities that retrospectively got named ‘communalist’ and contemporary Hindutva… Through careful and textured archival analysis of the political discourse around key events leading up to the Partition, Changing Homelands offers us a fresh and valuable perspective on the Punjabi experience of Partition and its continued affective resonance for so many refugees and their descendants in contemporary Delhi. It is as much a book about modern power relations in South Asia as it is a book about the failures and lost opportunities that constitute the history of Partition. This book is useful not only for those interested in the Partition, but also for those interested in the history of empire as well as South Asia. -- Kavita Daiya * Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient *Provides a valuable corrective to the historiography of politics in late colonial Punjab that has more often than not been over-determined by the impulse to explain partition… Nair marshals a wide range of sources to demonstrate that while some Punjabi Hindus undoubtedly supported partition, the historical evidence does not demonstrate that this particular way of imagining a homeland and belonging to it had gained overwhelming support, or even the upper hand, among all or most Punjabi Hindus in the decades preceding partition… Neeti Nair’s main contribution lies in providing a revisionist perspective to the Punjabi Hindus’ complicity in partitioning the province; but Changing Homelands is much more than a regional study of the ‘high politics’ of partition in the Punjab. With consummate skill, the narrative interweaves archival research with oral history, and fleshes out the connections between the high politics of partition and the situation on the ground. Her work is emblematic of a new wave of partition studies, in which an untenable separation of elite and subaltern politics has given way to rich mappings of their interconnections. -- Uditi Sen * Journal of Genocide Research *An important addition to the emerging research on this region’s politically traumatic event, Neeti Nair’s Changing Homelands highlights how Partition memory, stored in oral histories, has been largely constructed by the region’s subsequent politics and by people’s willful act of forgetting some portions of history… The story of Partition is only now beginning to be unpacked, as South Asians try to break free from the formulaic versions fed to them in the initial nation-building decades. In this context, Nair’s juxtaposing and interrogating of different strands of memory-making tools will be immensely useful, especially because oral history is just now taking off in India. While many academic historians dismiss oral history as inauthentic even today, this book helps the reader go beyond the simple act of rejection or acceptance. It advocates a more nuanced study of how memory works and how history is fluid and unfixed. -- Rama Lakshmi * Oral History Review *Nair offers fresh interpretations of Punjab’s relationship with the national movement. -- Sohini Majumdar * Refugee Watch Online *It is an excellent work of meticulous research. Its argument is sharp and well executed. In many ways, what Joya Chatterji accomplished in her book, Bengal Divided (1994), Nair does for Punjab. Nair’s is a fine illustration of Rancière’s dissensus: it derails the received wisdom on Partition. Nair cogently builds her argument by dwelling on Punjabi Hindu politics. She discusses diverse ideological currents among Punjabi Hindus (and Sikhs) and attends to their entanglements, inconsistencies and evolution. -- Irfan Ahmad * South Asia *[An] extremely impressive study of the Partition of India… Nair’s accomplishment in Changing Homelands is, above all else, her meticulously close attention to detail as she patiently unravels a number of vital strands in this larger tangle. She delivers a necessarily dense and complex, but very readable, narrative of what transpired in the Punjab (her focus), primarily over roughly a half century. -- Geoffrey Kain * South Asian Review *As a history of activities of Hindus in the Punjab, this book is a useful addition to understanding the history of the Punjab. -- R. D. Long * Choice *
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Harvard University Press What Is a Palestinian State Worth
Book SynopsisWhat is a Palestinian state worth? This book poses questions about the history, meaning, future, and resolution of the Israel/Palestine conflict.Trade ReviewNusseibeh recommends reframing the conflict and advocates that negotiators look beyond the conference room to focus on the reality in the homes and streets of Palestinians and Israelis, and envision a collective peace, progress, and safety…His philosophical and balanced book is unfailingly sensitive and empathetic to both sides. * Publishers Weekly *In a display of rationality uncommon to discussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Nusseibeh takes an impartial vantage point, trying to sort out a mess largely generated by overblown and hyperactive political identities…Nusseibeh is an experienced and bold politician and a shrewd intellectual. His views, accordingly, demand serious consideration. * Boston Review *Sari Nusseibeh is not a Palestinian Gandhi—he is a secular intellectual, not a saint, and while he has occupied prominent roles in Palestinian life (formerly as a leader of the first intifada and a Palestinian Authority diplomat, currently as president of al-Quds University), he has never commanded a mass following. But in his short new book he comes closer to advocating a Gandhian strategy than any other Palestinian leader I know of. -- Adam Kirsch * Tablet Magazine *Sari Nusseibeh repeatedly expresses his belief that change is possible if people have the self-confidence and faith in themselves to act. He sees his task as an educator to be one of inculcating such faith. And he also describes, in several chapters of his often moving book, a moral basis for political action that can speak to all of us. Like Gandhi, and like Abdallah Abu Rahmah and Ali Abu Awwad…Nusseibeh seeks not to coerce his opponents—in this case the Israeli people along with their political and military institutions—into changing their self-destructive course but to change their will, or their feelings. He wants them to step back from prejudice and an obsession with brute force and to open their eyes. He wants them to find in themselves the generosity of spirit needed in order to take a chance on peace, whether in the form of two states or a single binational entity or, perhaps, some kind of confederation. -- David Shulman * New York Review of Books *The ideas might sound strange in their departure from conventional wisdom about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the positions of leaders and pundits on both sides, but it's good policy to pay attention. In the past, Sari Nusseibeh has taken positions that his fellow Palestinians condemned—and then, a couple of uprisings and aborted peace conferences later, embraced. -- Haim Watzman * Chronicle of Higher Education *Nusseibeh's informal style, urgent and passionate, and especially his call to sit down with the enemy, will engage all sides in intense debate. -- Hazel Rochman * Booklist *There is nothing like it in the literature of this conflict. Every year thousands of articles and blog posts are produced about how to end the conflict. They all feel stale. This book does not. -- Greg Waldmann * Open Letters Monthly *
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Harvard University Press The Brethren
Book SynopsisIn 1777, North Carolina farmers planned a coup against local patriots. Brendan McConville shows they were motivated not by Crown loyalty but by love of individual and religious libertyas they understood them. Complicating revolutionary narratives, the plotters feared American independence would usher in the very tyranny it claimed to contest.Trade Review[McConville’s] use of archival and printed primary sources to discern thoughts and actions of obscure people [is] a rare feat…Important and well worth reading and discussing. -- Carole Watterson Troxler * North Carolina Historical Review *An engaging read. In addition to enlightening readers on issues affecting the yeoman population in the Revolution, this book will appeal particularly to those who are interested in religious history as well as aficionados of the Carolinas’ history. -- Kelly Mielke * Journal of the American Revolution *McConville’s study is the first to uncover the history of the Brethren, bringing this fascinating story to light…The Brethren is a great example of how scholars can use sparse sources and some imagination to craft a compelling narrative and argument. -- Savannah Flanagan * Past Tense Graduate Review of History *In this innovative and vivid history, McConville deploys deft and deep research to recover a long-hidden struggle within the American Revolution for the soul of a new nation. The Brethren reveals a contradictory, divisive, violent, and volatile revolution that pivoted on the allegiance of rural Christians alienated from the more secular leaders of their state. -- Alan Taylor, author of American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804McConville gives us an American Revolution we have never really seen. The Brethren demonstrates the hidden power of anti-Catholicism, loyalism, slave revolts, and a crucial conflict among patriots. It turns out that many ordinary Americans were determined to save their religion equally from King George III and from America’s own rationalist elite. -- Woody Holton, author of Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American RevolutionIn reconstructing the Lewellen conspiracy, McConville recovers the complexity and nuance of the American Revolution on the ground. This isn’t a story of idealistic Founding Fathers making the Enlightenment real, but of common people making sense of momentous changes. Written with great verve and flair, this book challenges our assumptions about the nature of the Revolution itself. -- Francis D. Cogliano, author of Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson’s Foreign PolicyMcConville provides a compact and elegant account of conspiratorial resistance to Revolutionary authority by alienated Anglicans in North Carolina, revealing important new perspectives on shifting religious and political orientations in the Revolution. Recovering a world unfamiliar, transient, and disconcerting, The Brethren amply repays readers interested in exploring the confused conflicts and abrupt dislocations of ordinary Americans during the Revolutionary crisis. -- Stephen A. Marini, author of Radical Sects of Revolutionary New England
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