Nationalism and nationalist ideologies and movements Books

Book SynopsisProviding an historical and cultural exploration, this text demonstrates the role Japanese cinema played in the 1930s in the construction of a national identity, and in terms of the larger context of Japan's encounter with the West and with modernity.

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Book SynopsisToday's discourse on nationalism is engaged by dynamic theoretical models derived from studies in literary criticism, cultural anthropology, socioeconomics, and psychology. This is the first book of its kind to apply this new theoretical framework to the Arab Middle East, with essays by Beth Baron, Fred Halliday, Rashid Khalidi, and Emmanuel Sivan.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction, by Israel Gershoni and James Jankowski Part I. Narrativity I: Mechanics of Historiography: How Academics Construct Nationalist History 1. Rethinking the Formation of Arab Nationalism in the Middle East, 1920-1945: Old and New Narratives, by Israel Gershoni 2. The Formation of Yemeni Nationalism: Initial Reflections, by Fred Halliday 3. The Tropes of Stagnation and Awakening in Nationalist Historical Consciousness: The Egyptian Case, by Gabriel Piterberg Part II. Narrativity II: Mechanics of Ideology: How Nationalists Construct Nationalist History 4. The Arab Nationalism of George Antonius Reconsidered, by William L. Cleveland 5. The Imposition of Nationalism on a Non-Nation State: The Case of Iraq During the Interwar Period, 1921-1941, by Reeva S. Simon 6. Nationalist Iconography: Egypt as a Woman, by Beth Baron Part III. Discursive Competitions: The Interplay of Rival Nationalist Visions 7. Nationalizing the Pharaonic Past: Egyptology, Imperialism, and Egyptian Nationalism, 1922-1952, by Donald M. Reid 8. Arab Nationalism in "Nasserism" and Egyptian State Policy, 1952-1958, by James Jankowski Part IV. Polycentrism 9. The Formation of Palestinian Identity: The Critical Years, 1917-1923, by Rashid Khalidi 10. The Palestinians: Tensions Between Nationalist and Religious Identities, by Musa Budeiri 11. Arab Nationalism in the Age of the Islamic Resurgence, by Emmanuel Sivan Part V. Nationalist Diffusion from the Bottom Up: Other Voices 12. The Other Arab Nationalism: Syrian/Arab Populism in Its Historical and International Contexts, by James L. Gelvin 13. Arab Workers and Arab Nationalism in Palestine: A View from Below, by Zachary Lockman 14. The Paradoxical in Arab Nationalism: Interwar Syria Revisited, by Philip S. Khoury Notes Glossary of Arabic Terms Works Cited in the Text Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisOffers the best essays from the acclaimed collection originally published in French. This monumental work examines how and why events and figures become a part of a people's collective memory, how rewriting history can forge new paradigms of cultural identity, and how the meaning attached to an event can become as significant as the event itself.Trade ReviewThis is an indispensable guide to understanding France and the French. As usual, Arthur Goldhammer's translation is superb. Foreign Affairs This unusual book deals fascinatingly with everything from the creation of the rousing anthem "La Marseillaise" to the changing role of Joan of Arc in France's collective memory. Even the Eiffel Tower shines forth in surprising new facets. Chicago Tribune Provides arresting genealogies of a number of the major cleavages in French history, with chapters on the embattled relationship of Jews to the French republic, the peculiar affinities of Gaulism and Communism, and... Paris' haughty condescension toward la province... Without resorting to polemics, the volume reminds us that the image of the French past is confected as much out of amnesia as out of memory. Lingua Franca A magisterial attempt to define what it is to be French. Times Literary Supplement A magnificent achievement... [The essays included] are the high-carat jewels of the project. The New RepublicTable of ContentsIntroduction - Pierre Nora Part I: Emblems1. The Three Colors: Neither White nor Red, Raoul Girardet2. La Marseillaise: War or Peace, Michel Vovelle3. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Mona Ozouf4. Bastille Day: From Dies Irae to Holiday, Christian Almavi Part II: Major Sites1. Lascaux, Jean-Paul Demoule2. Reims, City of Coronation, Jacques Le Goff3. The Louvre, Royal Residence and Temple of the Arts, Jean-Pierre Babelon4. Versailles, the Image of the Sovereign, Edouard Pommier5. The Pantheon, The Ecole Normale of the Dead, Mona Ozouf6. The Eiffel Tower, Henry Loyette7. Verdun, Antoine Prost Part III: Identifications1. The Gallic Cock, Michael Pastoureau2. Joan of Arc, Michael Winock3. Descartes, Francois Azouvi4. Paris, A Traversal from East to West, Maurice Agulhon5. The Genius of the French Language, Marc Fumaroli6. The Era of Commemoration, Pierre Nora Notes Index of NamesIndex of Subjects

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Book SynopsisHall illustrates how centuries-old dynastic traditions have been replaced in the modern era by nationalist and ethnic identity movements.Trade ReviewHall's work provides an important link between international-relations theory and nationalism scholarship. Nationalism and Ethnic PoliticsTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Part I. Collective Identity and International Relations Theory 1. International Relations Without Nations? 2. Social Identities and Social System 3. Identities and Social Orders: International Systems in Modern History Part II. Territorial-Sovereign Identity 4. Raison d'Etat and Territorial Sovereignty: Mercantilist Absolutism and Eighteenth-Century Imperialism 5. Territorial-Sovereign Identity and the Seven Years' War Part III. National-Sovereign Identity 6. The Emergence of National-Sovereign Identity: Revolutionary Nationalism and Reaction 7. Use and Misuse of the Principle of Nationality: The Demise of the Second Empire and the Birth of the Second Reich 8. National Sovereignty and the New Imperialism: The Global Transmission of Bourgeois-National Identity and Culture 9. "Over-the-Top" and "Over There": Status Contests Among National-Sovereigns Part IV. Conclusions and Implications 10. The Helpless Colossus: The Politics of Identity and Hopeful Nondeterminism

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Book SynopsisThis text analyzes how modern Jordanian identity was created and defined. The author studies two key institutions, the law and the military, and uses them to create an analysis of the making of modern Jordanian identity.Trade ReviewA work of genuine brilliance, as much for its searing insights into Jordanian history and culture as for its extraordinary mastery of the vast material it deploys. It is rare to encounter a pathbreaking book: this is certainly one. -- Edward Said The thesis of this important and profound book transcends the Jordanian case and reaches into the heart of the debate about the formation of national identities, the idea of the nation, and the effect of the colonial context in shaping identities and nationalities. The [analytic and historical] benefits that this book contributes surpass those provided by many other books on the topic, and it will surely occupy a central place in the literature about the modern history of Jordan. Al-Jazeera (translated from the Arabic) Massad offers not the usual political history but a study of legal changes and the use of the military for nation-building. Foreign Affairs By focusing on the actions and motivations of the British Colonial administrators-in codifying laws and defining the national culture-Massad provides an excellent analysis of state construction in the colonial realm. For this reason, his work is poised for use by scholars and teachers in a number of fields far beyond Jordanian and Middle Eastern studies... Massad beautifully expands the breadth of Jordanian studies by examining issues thus far neglected in all studies of the country... In a classroom setting... the thematic organizational structure means that students do not have to know very much about Jordanian history to be able to understand the main points. The chapters on the role of gender, law, and the military in nationalist construction can be read easily as case studies of national identity throughout the region and the world. A search of any Web engine will show how very popular this book has become for a range of disciplines and class types... As many scholars and teachers have discovered already, the book provides questions and answers about nationalism that few writers have posed before. -- Betty S. Anderson Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies Massad offers a theoretically informed and highly interesting analysis of the construction of national identity in Jordan... [Colonial Effects] is full of fascinating information and an analysis of the colonial and postcolonial state's production of national identity that should invigorate the field. -- Mary C. Wilson Journal of Palestine Studies Massad adopts an innovative approach by examining the effects of juridical and military institutions on the shaping of Jordan's national culture... [He] devotes very tangible attention to Bedouins, women, and Palestinians and their incorporation into the invented national culture of Jordan... [in a] sophisticated analysis. Choice Massad's book will occupy an important place in the literature on the modern history of Jordan, not only due to its unique and pioneering topic, but also due to its remarkably encyclopedic range. It is a book that engages the fields of politics, history, sociology, as well as popular culture... This is a great and distinguished book. Al-Hayat (translated from the Arabic) This is an important book... It is against the background of Massad's study that one will have to judge... current and forthcoming works. -- Laurie Brand Middle East Journal Historians interested in the emergence of national identities in other colonial and postcolonial countries and societies would do well to examine Massad's book. Reading it will require considerable concentration and patience, but the rewards should be substantial. -- Philip S. Khoury American Historical Review This is a potent, suggestive, and original work, based on extensive research including archival material and newspapers. It is a major contribution to the literature on Jordanian nationalism, anticolonial nationalism, and the wider field of postcolonial studies. It will be widely read and stir important debates. Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies Massad's book is informative, original, and interesting... Ultimately, this book is a pleasure. It is an innovative approach to the creation of Jordanian national identity and a much-needed and welcome addition to the scholarship on Jordanian national identity. Arab Studies Journal [I]n his provocative book... Massad eruditely examines and reconstructs the creation and evolution of the Jordanian nation... This insightful book will serve to provide readers with an immeasurable understanding and a methodology for exploring the complexities of colonialism and postcolonial national movements. Al-Jadid [P]ainstakingly researched... Massad's Colonial Effects is an enlightening exploration of national identity construction that... can illuminate the process of identity creation not only in Jordan, but in many other postcolonial nations as well. Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies Massad chart[s] new ground methodologically [and] his substantive arguments are equally innovative... he uses new conceptual tools for interpreting the construction of colonial and postcolonial national identity... Always attuned to the political implications of culture, Massad shows how [cultural] inventions have been politically expedient, aimed at bolstering the unity of the nation in the face of real social cleavages... Colonial Effects is an ambitious book. It is sometimes hard to categorize because of the author's apparent comfort in different disciplines (political theory, diplomatic history, and cultural studies toname a few) and his use of different modes of argumentation (from the purely descriptive to the highly abstract)... [The book] illuminate[s] the complex negotiations between colonizer and colonized in an understudied period of mandate rule in the Middle East. In addition, [it] constitute[s] part of a small but growing group of works demonstrating the usefulness ofMiddle Eastern history and politics for theorizing modern processes like the gendered construction of citizenship and national identity. It is to be hoped that scholars of Europe in particular (who have paid little attention to the Middle East) will appreciate [its] insights. Radical History Review Massad has done a thorough job of mastering the source material. Middle East Quarterly Massad, puts forward a sophisticated constitutive analysis of Jordan's 'national' identity, singling out the different turns and twists in the formation of the 'Jordanian' character and make-up. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies Impressive... meticulously documented throughout. International Journal of Middle East StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction Law, Military, and Discipline Tradition and Modernity Historical Moments Part I: Codifying the Nation: Law and the Articulation of National Identity in Jordan The Prehistory of Juridical Postcoloniality National Time National Space National Territory and Paternity Nationalizing Non-Nationals Losing Nationality: The Law Giveth and the Law Taketh Away Women and Children Part II: Different Spaces as Different Times: Law and Geography in Jordanian Nationalism Different Species of Citizens: Women and Bedouins Bedouins and National Citizenship Nationalist Tribalism or Tribalist Nationalism: The Debate Jordanian Culture in an International Frame Women Between the Public and Private Spheres Women in Public Women and Politics Part III: Cultural Syncretism or Colonial Mimic Men: Jordan's Bedouins and the Military Basis of National Identity The Bedouin Choice Cultural Imperialism and Discipline Cultural Cross-Dressing as Epistemology Imperialism as Educator Masculinity, Culture, and Women Transforming the Bedouins Persuasion, Education, and Surveillance Part IV: Nationalizing the Military: Colonial Legacy as National Heritage Anticolonial Nationalism and the Army King Husayn and the Nationalist Officers Clash of the Titans: Glubb Pasha and the Uneasy King "Arabizing" the Jordanian Army The Palace Coup and the End of an Era Palace Repression and the Forgiving King Palestinians and the Military Threatening the Nation's Masculinity and Religious "Tradition" The Military and the New Jordan Colonial or National Legacy Part V: The Nation as an Elastic Entity: The Expansion and Contraction of Jordan Expanding the Nation: The Road to Annexation The Jericho Conference The New Jordan Palestinians and the West Bank Competing Representatives: The PLO and Jordan Toward Civil War A New Nationalist Era Clothes, Accents, and Football: Asserting Post-Civil War Jordanianness Contracting the Nation: The Road to "The Severing of Ties" Who Is Jordanian? Concluding Remarks

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOne of the pre-eminent historians of Palestinian nationalism. The Chronicle of Higher Education A major contribution to historical Palestinian nationalism. Foreign Affairs An impressive, thoughtful, layered, and well-documented study. Kirkus Pathbreaking. Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface Introduction to the 2010 Reissue 1. Introduction 2. Contrasting Narratives of Palestinian Identity 3. Cultural Life and Identity in Late Ottoman Palestine: The Place of Jerusalem 4. Competing and Overlapping Loyalties in Ottoman Jerusalem 5. Elements of Identity I: Peasant Resistance to Zionist Settlement 6. Elements of Identity II: The Debate on Zionism in the Arabic Press 7. The Formation of Palestinian Identity: The Critical Years, 1917-1923 8. The "Disappearance" and Reemergence of Palestinian Identity Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCasts lexicographers as key figures in the political realignment of South Asia under British rule and in the years after independence. Their dictionaries document how a single, mutually intelligible language evolved into two competing registers—Urdu and Hindi—and became associated with contrasting religious and nationalist goalsTrade ReviewA monumental work. Its eloquence is sublime, the stories are tantalizing, and the illustrations are gripping. -- Syed Akbar Hyder, author of Reliving Karbala: Martyrdom in South Asian Memory South Asianists have needed a pioneering book that takes seriously the ideological underpinnings of dictionary production and meaning-making across a range of linguistic, cultural, and class boundaries and shows how dynamic such exchanges often are. Negotiating Languages is a major contribution to the study of South Asia. -- Christi Merrill, author of Riddles of Belonging: India in Translation and Other Tales of Possession Who knew that lexicographical analysis could be so historically revelatory, culturally astute, and rich in anecdotes? Hakala's book is not only a source to be mined for information but also a joy to read. Everyone with an interest in South Asian language history will find it both a treasure and a pleasure. -- Frances Pritchett, author of Nets of Awareness: Urdu Poetry and Its Critics A pioneering study of Hindi/Urdu lexicography, Hakala's book is an equally significant contribution to the sociology of Urdu's premodern literature. His meticulous analyses of four lexicons, dating from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, bring revealing insights to the issues that much concerned not only the lexicographers but also all the creative writers of those times, as well as issues of linguistic authority and authenticity and gender and class identities. -- C. M. Naim, author of Urdu Texts and Contexts A brilliant contribution to the story of how Hindustani emerged as a standardized, comprehensive language, and in the end diverged into Urdu and Hindi as languages of cultural and national identity. With great originality, Hakala shows how dictionaries change over time in their sources, format, claims to authenticity, and the populations they at once reflect and create. We will never look at the Fallon, Platts, and Farhang that sit on our desks in the same way again. -- Barbara D. Metcalf, author of Islamic Revival in British India: Deoband, 1860-1900Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Chronology 1. A Plot Discovered 2. 1700: Between Microhistory and Macrostructures 3. 1800: Through the Veil of Poetry 4. 1900: Lexicography and the Self 5. 1900: Grasping at Straws Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHemment's research counters the larger myth of an all-powerful state pulling the strings of civic activism. She skillfully weaves together a complex picture from multiple encounters and collaborations of what does and does not motivate Russia's young future leaders, many of whom are thoughtfully struggling with what they want out of life and how that may contribute to improving the lives of those around them. * Russian Review *This fascinating book presents a highly original account of the similarities between youth policies in Russia and around the world, and gives us a novel, grounded analysis of Russian provincial youth. It is a welcome and major contribution to the study of comparative youth policies. * American Ethnologist *In this important contribution to the anthropology of postsocialist state, Julie Hemment explores the terrain of state-run youth projects in Vladimir Putin's Russia, providing a sophisticated, elaborated, and differentiated account of highly controversial projects initiated by the Kremlin in the 2000s analyzed in the context of global neoliberal forces and trends. * American Anthropologist *Hemment's book makes a strong case for the importance of continuing to think, listen, and work with one another across conventional divides, both conceptual and geopolitical. Hemment argues that it is intellectually necessary and politically imperative to challenge a resurgent Cold War rhetoric. Her book points to a way forward on both fronts.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Collaborative Possibilities, New Cold War Constraints: Ethnography in the Putin Era2. Nashi in Ideology and Practice: The Social Life of Sovereign Democracy3. Seliger 2009: "Commodify Your Talent"4. From Komsomoltsy-Dobrovoltsy to Entrepreneurial Volunteers: Technologies of Kindness5. "Arousing" Patriotism: Satire, Sincerity, and Geopolitical PlayConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHemment's research counters the larger myth of an all-powerful state pulling the strings of civic activism. She skillfully weaves together a complex picture from multiple encounters and collaborations of what does and does not motivate Russia's young future leaders, many of whom are thoughtfully struggling with what they want out of life and how that may contribute to improving the lives of those around them. * Russian Review *This fascinating book presents a highly original account of the similarities between youth policies in Russia and around the world, and gives us a novel, grounded analysis of Russian provincial youth. It is a welcome and major contribution to the study of comparative youth policies. * American Ethnologist *In this important contribution to the anthropology of postsocialist state, Julie Hemment explores the terrain of state-run youth projects in Vladimir Putin's Russia, providing a sophisticated, elaborated, and differentiated account of highly controversial projects initiated by the Kremlin in the 2000s analyzed in the context of global neoliberal forces and trends. * American Anthropologist *Hemment's book makes a strong case for the importance of continuing to think, listen, and work with one another across conventional divides, both conceptual and geopolitical. Hemment argues that it is intellectually necessary and politically imperative to challenge a resurgent Cold War rhetoric. Her book points to a way forward on both fronts.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Collaborative Possibilities, New Cold War Constraints: Ethnography in the Putin Era2. Nashi in Ideology and Practice: The Social Life of Sovereign Democracy3. Seliger 2009: "Commodify Your Talent"4. From Komsomoltsy-Dobrovoltsy to Entrepreneurial Volunteers: Technologies of Kindness5. "Arousing" Patriotism: Satire, Sincerity, and Geopolitical PlayConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book . . . is a welcome addition to the field of Greek-Ottoman studies in the nineteenth century because it offers a sustained analysis of the much neglected theme of 'Greek-Orthodox' music in the troubled and complicated late Ottoman period. * Historein *Merih Erol's investigation of Greek Orthodox constructions of identity in the final decades of the Ottoman Empire does not only open up a new venue for the debates on the modern Ottoman social history but also offers ethnomusicological perspectives for various fields of social research in other geographical areas.Greek Orthodox Music in Ottoman Istanbul broadens and renews the research field of late Ottoman and Modern Greek musical and cultural history. * Middle Eastern Studies *This is a thoroughly researched, erudite, and original examination in Ottoman-Greek studies/history, which is also relevant to broader scholarship through the connections it builds with the history of European, Byzantine, and ancient music, ethnomusicology, and cultural studies. * American Historical Review *This book is a great contribution to the fields of historical ethnomusicology, religious studies, ethnic studies, and Ottoman and Greek studies. It offers timely research during a critical period for ethnic minorities in the Middle East in general and Christians in particular as they undergo persecution and forced migration. * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Overall, the book impresses me as a sophisticated work that avoids the standard nationalist views on the history of the Ottoman Greeks. -- Risto Pekka Pennanen * University of Tampere, Finland *Highly recommended for academic libraries. * Music Reference Services Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The City's Greek Orthodox: An Overview2. Liturgical Music and the Middle Class3. Confronting the Musical Past4. The Music Debate and Tradition5. Music and National Identity6. Singing and Political AllegianceConclusion

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Working Out Class and Nation in Edinburgh1. History, Heritage, and Politics in the Old TownInterlude 1: On Conservation, Community, and Class2. Depoliticizing Development: Neoliberal Urbanism and CaltongateInterlude 2: A Shop in the Canongate3. Saving the Old Town, One More Time: Ancient Concerns for Neoliberal TimesInterlude 3: Dumbiedykes4. The Politics of HomeInterlude 4: Doocots and Community Land Use in Glasgow5. Scottish Cosmopolitanism: From Neighborhood to NationConclusion: Urban Scotland, Working-Class Politics, and National FuturesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Working Out Class and Nation in Edinburgh1. History, Heritage, and Politics in the Old TownInterlude 1: On Conservation, Community, and Class2. Depoliticizing Development: Neoliberal Urbanism and CaltongateInterlude 2: A Shop in the Canongate3. Saving the Old Town, One More Time: Ancient Concerns for Neoliberal TimesInterlude 3: Dumbiedykes4. The Politics of HomeInterlude 4: Doocots and Community Land Use in Glasgow5. Scottish Cosmopolitanism: From Neighborhood to NationConclusion: Urban Scotland, Working-Class Politics, and National FuturesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisIntends to challenge the established view that the civilian sector in Israel has been predominant over its security sector since the state's independence in 1948. This title reexamines the relationship between these sectors and provides a different view of their interactions.Trade ReviewOn the whole, this book provides a comprehensive and fresh assessment of critical perspectives of the militaristic culture present in Israel that is appropriate for the student and informed scholar alike. * British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies *Militarism and Israeli Society makes a convincing case about the security network and the power it exercises in and on Israeli society. * Journal of Palestine Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Oren Barak and Gabriel Sheffer1. The Study of Civil–Military Relations in Israel: A New Perspective / Oren Barak and Gabriel Sheffer2. Military Knowledge and Weak Civilian Control in the Reality of Low Intensity Conflict—The Israeli Case / Kobi Michael3. Civil Society, the Military, and National Security: The Case of Israel's Security Zone in South Lebanon / Avraham Sela4. Intractable Conflict and the Media / Yoram Peri5. Tensions between Military Service and Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel: Implications Imagined and Real / Stuart A. Cohen6. From "Obligatory Militarism" to "Contractual Militarism"—Competing Models of Citizenship / Yagil Levy, Edna Lomsky-Feder, and Noa Harel7. Shadow Lands: The Use of Land Resources for Security Needs in Israel / Amiram Oren8. "The Battle over Our Homes": Reconstructing/Deconstructing Sovereign Practices around Israel's Separation Barrier on the West Bank / Yuval Feinstein and Uri Ben-Eliezer9. The Debate over the Defense Budget in Israel / Zalman F. Shiffer10. Civilian Control over the Army in Israel and France / Samy Cohen11. The Making of Israel's Political–Security Culture / Amir Bar-Or12. The Discourses of "Psychology" and the "Normalization" of War in Contemporary Israel / Edna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-Ari13. Visual Representations of IDF Women Soldiers and "Civil-Militarism" in Israel / Chava Brownfield-Stein14. Contradictory Representation of the IDF in Cultural Texts of the 1980s / Yuval Benziman15. Military and Society since 9/11: Retrospect and Prospect / Christopher DandekerAppendix A. Israeli Ministers of Defense since 1948Appendix B. Chiefs of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces since 1948Appendix C. Important DatesContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisMuslim-Christian co-existence through public artTrade ReviewVolk presents a wonderful narrative of key turning points in the history of modern Lebanon. . . . [A] rigorous study and a pleasure to read. * H-net Reviews *Volk's argument is relevant, interesting and worthy of praise and follow-up: thinking about Lebanese society outside confessional boxes is tragically relevant in times of sectarian warfare in Syria and beyond.40.3 2013 * British Jrnl Middle Eastern Studies *Volk's identification of subjacent gender and class issues in memorialization points the way to fertile ground for future scholarship. ... Would memorials commemorating the contributions of women or the working-class bring into question the status quo by relativizing the power of elite males? These are not questions that Memorials and Martyrs foregrounds but the book makes it much easier and more plausible to ask them. The next time somebody asks what good scholarship can do for civil society, I'll try to remember this. * Journal of Arabic Literature *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration of ArabicIntroduction1. The Politics of Memory in Lebanon: Sectarianism, Memorials, and Martyrdom2. Sculpting Independence: Competing Ceremonies and Mutilated Faces (1915-1957)3. Remembering Civil Wars: Fearless Faces and Wounded Bodies (1958-1995)4. Reconstructing while Re-destructing Lebanon: Dismembered Bodies and National Unity (1996-2003)5. Revisiting Independence and Mobilizing Resistance: Assassinations, Massacres, and Divided Memory-Scapes (2004-2006)6. Memorial Politics and National Imaginings: Possibilities and LimitsAppendix: Important DatesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisMuslim-Christian co-existence through public artTrade ReviewVolk presents a wonderful narrative of key turning points in the history of modern Lebanon. . . . [A] rigorous study and a pleasure to read. * H-net Reviews *Volk's argument is relevant, interesting and worthy of praise and follow-up: thinking about Lebanese society outside confessional boxes is tragically relevant in times of sectarian warfare in Syria and beyond.40.3 2013 * British Jrnl Middle Eastern Studies *Volk's identification of subjacent gender and class issues in memorialization points the way to fertile ground for future scholarship. ... Would memorials commemorating the contributions of women or the working-class bring into question the status quo by relativizing the power of elite males? These are not questions that Memorials and Martyrs foregrounds but the book makes it much easier and more plausible to ask them. The next time somebody asks what good scholarship can do for civil society, I'll try to remember this. * Journal of Arabic Literature *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration of ArabicIntroduction1. The Politics of Memory in Lebanon: Sectarianism, Memorials, and Martyrdom2. Sculpting Independence: Competing Ceremonies and Mutilated Faces (1915-1957)3. Remembering Civil Wars: Fearless Faces and Wounded Bodies (1958-1995)4. Reconstructing while Re-destructing Lebanon: Dismembered Bodies and National Unity (1996-2003)5. Revisiting Independence and Mobilizing Resistance: Assassinations, Massacres, and Divided Memory-Scapes (2004-2006)6. Memorial Politics and National Imaginings: Possibilities and LimitsAppendix: Important DatesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The four writers of Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy, all of them religious, are unusually frank in recognizing the possible affinities between their religions and a nationalist politics. At the same time, they are wonderfully (and thankfully) persuasive in providing an account of Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism that can stand alongside and support liberal democracy." —Michael Walzer, author of The Paradox of Liberation "A timely, constructive, and empirically grounded exploration of the tensions among religion, identity, and liberal democracy in the United States and around the world." —Robert D. Putnam, co-author of American Grace"Engaging and insightful, Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy helps us recognize the striking patterns of dangerous nationalisms that threaten to divide humanity and distort democracy around the globe. The authors' comparative perspective helps us see our own context in a clearer light, and the activist reading of history and the present ask us, as readers and people of faith, to take action." —Jeannine Hill Fletcher, author of The Sin of White Supremacy“This is a solid, timely book on a surprisingly neglected topic: the religious views and responses to the rise across the West of national populism. It succeeds at being both a scholarly and an activist and prescriptive look at the Christian and Jewish reactions to the populist surge in the twenty-first century.” —José Pedro Zúquete, author of The Identitarians"It is vital for citizens of liberal democracies to understand the populist movements that are challenging democracy from within. By explaining how religion has been co-opted by nationalist populism, and by showing how religion can help provide an antidote to populism, this learned and insightful book helps us appreciate the dilemmas of contemporary democratic politics." —Andrew Preston, author of Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith"Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy is an impassioned defense of the sane and sound forms of religion that engender and protect democracy, human rights, and love of neighbor. It is obviously a labor of love produced by those who have lived their lives in support of those values that will mend our broken world." —Jim Winkler, president and general secretary, National Council of Churches"Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy . . . impart[s] a cogent, academic, and rich way of understanding how religion has been turned political weapon; it gives significant advice about what to do to address the problem . . . [and] explains how religious claims have been warped and understood to be more about belonging than believing." —Foreword Reviews (starred review)"In this trenchant analysis, Elcott . . . teams up with other researchers to explore the ways religion impacts politics in the U.S. and Europe. . . . This is a startling reminder of the insidious potential of religious identity being overtaken by extremist political forces." —Publishers Weekly"Elcott and his colleagues are to be commended for lobbying that religion, when properly practiced, exposes “divisions between 'us' and 'them' ” not as appeals to purity but exercises in apostasy. Hope, not fear, thus paves the way forward." —The Journal Gazette“Elcott and his colleagues . . . offer a broad perspective on how religious faith has been misused in the development of national identities. In rich, complex prose, the authors provide examples of how religion has been used for both good and evil in the development of nation states. Indeed, the authors are stark in highlighting the ways in which religious belief has been weaponized to promote intolerance and disenfranchisement.” —The Arlington Catholic Herald"Elcott and his coauthors have come together across religious and cultural divides and exemplified a clear commitment to liberal democracy. Their work challenges faith leaders and laypersons alike to do the same and join together across seemingly insurmountable boundaries to work towards a global emphasis on human rights and dignity for all people. " —Reading Religion"This book is a useful primer on how authoritarian leaders manipulate religion to encourage human division, tribalism, and nationalism and how religion offers the means to promote liberal democracy." —ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Why We Write 1. Facing Liberal Democracy’s Challenge: Why We Highlight The Role Of Religious Identity In Populist Nationalist Movements 2. How To Understand The Populism Of Europe 3. The Assault On Liberal Democracy In The United States 4. A Catholic Response To The Errors Of Catholic Nationalism 5. The Post-Holocaust Protestant Church As The Defender Of Pluralistic Democracy 6. Each Human Being As An Image Of God: A Jewish Response To Religious Nationalism Epilogue: Religious Leadership, Civil Discourse, And Democracy The Authors Bibliography Notes

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores how the Milosevic government prolongs its tenure despite failures and setbacks that the author argues, would have brought down other governments.Trade Review“An original and important addition to the literature on post-Communist transformations. Gordy presents a detailed political sociology of the region which is grounded in a knowledge of the language and relevant sources. His work is timely and will reach a wide audience interested both in Serbia and in the political and cultural sociology of nationalism, authoritarianism, and aesthetic life.”—Thomas Cushman,Wellesley College“This book presents a very original and informative approach to the study of the social base and social policy of Milošević’s regime, and goes a long way to explain why Milošević has been so resilient. I recommend it highly to those interested in the politics of transition from communism to ‘post-Communism,’ or in the ways authoritarian regimes maintain power. Students of Balkans will find this work indispensable.”—James Satterwhite Slavic and East European Journal

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Xia has done a good job of collecting primary sources and offering a persuasive analysis of a neglected topic. Her work should be deemed as a pioneering project, which enriches our comprehension of the complicated wartime situation and its impact upon postwar Chinese society. . . . This book, without a doubt, is a contribution to modern Chinese history. It could be adopted as a supplementary reading for Chinese and East Asian history courses." * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. From Epithet to Crime 2. Arbiters of Justice in a Lawless State 3. The Political Economy of the Anti-hanjian Campaigns 4. Engendering Contempt for Female Hanjian and Cultural Hanjian 5. Punishing Hanjian beyond Chinese Borders Epilogue: From Crime to Epithet Appendix A: The Revised Regulations on Punishing Hanjian, 1938 187 Appendix B: The Resolutions on Preventing Hanjian Activities and Espionage, 1939 190 Appendix C: Regulations on Handling Hanjian Cases, 1945 Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBrings together twelve of celebrated historian George L. Mosse’s most important essays to explore competing forms of European nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These essays retain their significance today in their examination of the cultural and social implications of contemporary nationalism.Trade Review“Penetrating scholarly essays . . . [demonstrate] an easy mastery of cultural and political history.”—Publishers Weekly “Confronting the Nation is quintessential George Mosse: passionate, articulate, and wide-ranging.”—SHOFAR“Brings together many of the most convincing arguments of his oeuvre. Mosse is at his best in describing the modes of national self-display.”—Journal of Jewish StudiesTable of Contents Acknowledgments A Critical Introduction by Shulamit Volkov Introduction: Confronting the Nation Part I: The Nation Displays Itself 1. National Anthems: The Nation Militant 2. National Self-Representation during the 1930s in Europe and the United States 3. Community in the Thought of Nationalism, Fascism, and the Radical Right 4. Political Style and Political Theory: Totalitarian Democracy Revisited 5. Fascism and the French Revolution 6. The Political Culture of Italian Futurism 7. Bookburning and Betrayal by the German Intellectuals Part II: The Jews and the Modern Nation 8. The Jews and the Civic Religion of Nationalism 9. Jewish Emancipation: Between Bildung and Respectability 10. German Jews and Liberalism in Retrospect 11. Max Nordau: Liberalism and the New Jew 12. Gershom Scholem as a German Jew Notes Index

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Book SynopsisThis second edition of Dru Gladney’s critically acclaimed study of the Muslim population in China includes a new preface by the author, as well as a valuable addendum to the bibliography, already hailed as one of the most extensive listing of modern sources on the Sino-Muslims.Trade ReviewGladney locates the significance of the Hui (and the study of minorities) in their challenge to the dominant Chinese and Western perceptions of China… [A] fine, pioneering work. * Journal of Asian Studies *Muslim Chinese is an anthropological study of the Hui based on three years’ fieldwork in China and supported by a formidable battery of references, including most of the important scholarship on Hui history, society, and literature that has emerged… A vivid and detailed picture of Hui life and attitudes. * China Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisOffers a different theory of citizenship and civic allegiance for culturally diverse liberal democracies. This book argues for a form of political belonging centered on universalist norms, adapted for specific constitutional cultures.Trade Review"Is it possible to develop a 'patriotic' attachment to what is basically a set of intellectual positions? This is the question Muller attempts to answer in this short, bracing book. His analysis is centered on the Federal Republic of Germany, a government deliberately designed to eliminate the need to be 'German' in order to be a German citizen... What can be learned from this experience can, Muller hopes, be brought to bear on similar problems facing the newborn EU. A clearly written, thoughtful, and enjoyable analysis."--M. Berheide, Berea College, for Choice "In Constitutional Patriotism, Werner Muller, who teaches politics at Princeton, has provided a thorough and engaging defense of the concept."--Michael Lind, American Prospect "[T]his is an interesting and thoughtful book. There are many open ended arguments and some gaps (for me the ambiguity of theoretical republicanism loomed large), however, overall it is be welcomed as a valuable contribution to current political theory."--Andrew Vincent, Nations and NationalismTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Chapter One: A Brief History of Constitutional Patriotism 15 Chapter Two: Nations without Qualities? Toward a Theory of Constitutional Patriotism 46 Chapter Three: A European Constitutional Patriotism? On Memory, Militancy, and Morality 93 Afterword: But Is It Enough? 141 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 149 NOTES 153 INDEX 175

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Book SynopsisArgues that we owe civic obligations to the state if it is sufficiently just, and that constitutionally enshrined principles of justice in themselves - rather than territory, common language, or shared culture - are grounds for obedience to our particular state and for democratic solidarity with our fellow citizens.Trade Review"Are liberals left with either a repugnant cultural nationalism or a floating cosmopolitanism, or can they create a coherent liberal account that grounds citizens' loyalty to a particular state? Stilz forcefully argues that they can. After skillfully exposing problems with both cosmopolitan and nationalist liberalisms and effectively refuting liberal-leaning anarchists, Stilz turns to Kant, Rousseau, and Habermas for inspiration, arguing that liberals must conceptualize loyalty as a political duty to support institutions that promote liberal freedoms."--Choice "Stilz has articulated with great clarity and consistency an alternative to both consent-theories of political obligation and to their nationalist counterparts. That alternative will find many supporters, and deserves to be taken very seriously even by its critics."--Lea Ypi, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "One of the values of Stilz's work is her attempt to reclaim particular terms and categories from contemporary political and philosophical discourse... The end of her work, the articulation of a rationally arrived-at duty of justice leading us to be loyal to democratic institutions and processes, is a worthwhile and ongoing project."--John Randolph LeBlanc, American Review of Politics "Anna Stilz's book [is] a thoughtful, compelling meditation on liberal citizenship."--Steven Johnston, Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsPreface vii PART ONE: Equal Freedom and the State Chapter 1: Introduction 3 Chapter 2: Authority 27 Chapter 3: Democracy 57 Chapter 4: Political Obligation and Justice 85 PART TWO: Solidarity and Allegiance Chapter 5: Freedom and Culture in Rousseau 113 Chapter 6: Nationalism or Patriotism? 137 Chapter 7: Democracy as Collective Action 173 Chapter 8: Conclusion 209 Bibliography 213 Index 221

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Book SynopsisLike a great dynasty that falls to ruin and is eventually remembered more for its faults than its feats, Arab nationalism is remembered mostly for its humiliating rout in the 1967 Six Day War, for inter-Arab divisions, and for words and actions distinguished by their meagerness. But people tend to forget the majesty that Arab nationalism once was.Trade Review"A timely, illuminating and highly readable overview of the history of the Arab national movement, from its origins in the 19th century to the present... [The book] not only brings events alive, but also leads to fresh assessments and a better-informed understanding of the politics of one of the world's most volatile and violent regions."--Avi Shlaim, Guardian "Dawisha has written a fine analysis of the heyday and decline of the ideology of Arab nationalism... With a sound theoretical apparatus and making good use of memoirs by those involved, Dawisha provides an excellent guide to the origins of the movement and the reality behind the rhetoric."--Choice "[A] splendid recent obituary of the movement."--Economist "Dawisha tackles [an] intimidatingly big subject with success. He has mastered the vast literature on the subject, weeding out the contentious or just plain wrong accounts and integrating the several good studies that get it right. Added to this is his own considerable expertise."--L. Carl Brown, Foreign Affairs "[Dawisha] relates the many angles of this rich, complex, and multifaceted subject in a readable, lucid, and economic manner."--Israel Gershoni, American Historical Review "Dawisha carefully navigates between various, contested historical narratives to create a balanced, authoritative historical work. He relates the many angles of this rich, complex, and multifaceted subject in a readable, lucid, and economic manner that nonspecialists will appreciate. His book is a comprehensive account of the evolution of Arab nationalism and an insightful evaluation of the role it played in shaping the modern Arab Middle East."--Israel Gershoni, American Historical Review "[O]ne of the most comprehensive studies on pan-Arab nationalism to date."--Amaney Jamal, Political Science Quarterly "Adeed Dawisha's highly readable, clear-eyed, and sober historical account of Arab nationalism is an important contribution to our understanding of its rapid rise to fame and equally rapid fall from grace. Combining the seasoned insights of a veteran Middle East scholar, recent scholarship, and the memoirs of Arab leaders and intellectuals, Dawisha has produced a major addition to the study of Arab nationalism and the politics of the region."--Michael Barnett, Middle East Journal "A wonderfully insightful and analytical study of a significant political phase in the Middle East."--Jonas Kauffeldt, History: Reviews of New Books "This book is a major intellectual advance in the study of comparative political ideologies in general, and Arab political thought in particular."--Bill S. Mikhail, Middle East Policy "This provocative book is likely either to delight or infuriate. It will certainly delight all those who have, all along, considered Arab nationalism to be an irritant and would gleefully read its obituary set in gloating prose. But the fury of the adherents or sympathizers of Arab nationalism will be all the greater as the author lays out his case in a highly controversial and contentious manner."--Youssef M. Choueiri, Studies in Contemporary Islam "Adeed Dawisha has given us a timely, illuminating and highly readable overview of the history of the Arab national movement, from its origins in the 19th century to the present. His book combines an analysis of the ideas of Arab nationalism and their roots in European thought, with a fast-moving political narrative, full of dramatic ups an downs... [He] brings to his task a rare personal insight, as well as mastery of the voluminous Arabic sources on the subject. There is a great deal of new material here which not only brings events alive, but also leads to fresh assessments and a better-informed understanding of the politics of one of the world's most volatile and violent regions."--Avi Shlaim, The ObserverTable of ContentsCHAPTER ONE: Defining Arab Nationalism 1 CHAPTER TWO: Early Stirrings: The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 14 CHAPTER THREE: Sati' al-Husri's Theory of Arab Nationalism 49 CHAPTER FOUR: Arab Nationalism and Competing Loyalties: From the 1920s to the Arab Revolt in Palestine 75 CHAPTER FIVE: The Path to Nationalist Ascent: From the Palestinian Revolt to the Egyptian Revolution 107 CHAPTER SIX: Consolidating Arab Nationalism: The Emergence of "Arab" Egypt 135 CHAPTER SEVEN: Arab Nationalism on the March,1955-1957 160 CHAPTER EIGHT: The Apex of Arab Nationalism: The United Arab Republic andthe Iraqi Revolution, January-September 1958 186 CHAPTER NINE: Arab Nationalism's Downward Slide,1958-1967 214 CHAPTER TEN: 1967 and After: The Twilight of Arab Nationalism 252 CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Demise of Arab Nationalism: A Postmortem 282 CHAPTER TWELVE Requiem for Arab Nationalism 314 Bibliography 333 Index 349

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This study is a significant step in clarifying identity in the Arab provinces during the 19th century regarding both the Ottoman Empire and within the provinces themselves." * Choice *"Mestyan is at his best when he excavates and reconstructs lines connecting diverse and often obscure individuals to equally diverse institutions of power."---Wilson Chacko Jacob, American Historical Review"Adam Mestyan’s Arab Patriotism is an ambitious project on the Ottoman province of Egypt . . . in the nineteenth century."---Side Emre, Bustan"Arab Patriotism is an ambitious study. Dealing with Egyptian history from the 1830s to the 1890s, it addresses two hitherto relatively unexplored subjects. . . . Throughout, the study presents fresh material and opens new perspectives on Egyptian history. The book is a significant contribution to the history of modern Egypt."---James Jankowski, Journal of Arabic LiteratureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii List of Tables ix Notes on Transliteration, Names, Titles, and Currency xi Introduction 1 I The Making of the Khedivate 17 1 The Ottoman Origins of Arab Patriotism 21 2 The Ottoman Legitimation of Power: The Khedivate 50 3 The European Aesthetics of Khedivial Power 84 II "A Garden with Mellow Fruits of Refinement" 121 4 A Gentle Revolution 125 5 Constitutionalism and Revolution: The Arab Opera 164 III The Reinvention of the Khedivate 199 6 Harun al-Rashid under Occupation 203 7 Behind the Scenes: A Committee and the Law, 1880s-1900s 238 8 Distinction: Mustafa Kamil and the Making of an Arab Prince 268 Conclusion: The Ottoman Origin of Arab Nationalisms 303 Acknowledgments 309 Abbreviations 311 Works Cited 313 Index 345

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