Nationalism and nationalist ideologies and movements Books
Princeton University Press Let the People Rule
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Princeton University Press Nation Building
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Stein Rokkan Prize, European Consortium for Political Research""Co-Winner of the Barrington Moore Book Award, Comparative-Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association""In this fascinating account of state- and nation-building across time and space, Wimmer does a great job in convincing readers of the explanatory value of his theory."---Sean Mueller, Regional and Federal Studies"This is a book of profound and far-reaching significance for those wishing to understand how nations are built.—John Torpey, Sociological Forum"
£25.20
Princeton University Press Modis India
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Christophe Jaffrelot, Winner of the Prix Raymond de Boyer de Sainte-Suzanne, Académie française (for the original French edition)""Financial Times Best Books of 2021: Politics""A The Hindu Top 10 Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year""Modi’s India is a masterpiece of careful research."---James Crabtree, Financial Times"The most comprehensive study of Modi’s India to date offers a bleak and unsparing view of the direction of the country."---Gideon Rachman, Financial Times, Best Books of The Year 2021"Christophe Jaffrelot’s book is a work of outstanding scholarship, a formidable documentation and compelling commentary on how India has changed in the first seven years under the leadership of Narendra Modi. . . .it is only a scholar of exceptional assurance and erudition who would attempt such an audaciously comprehensive, contemporary history written in real-time rather than with hindsight, and succeed simultaneously to inform, stir and provoke his readers."---Harsh Mander, Telegraph of India"Modi’s India is an exhaustive account of contemporary Indian politics, which impressively draws on numerous sources and examines a range of issues . . . . this work emerges as an important contribution to the study of the future of democracy in India and beyond."---Pratim Ghosal, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics"The strengths of this book are many."---Stephanie Duclos-King, Religious Studies Review
£27.00
Princeton University Press Arab Patriotism The Ideology and Culture of
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 Literature
£28.80
Princeton University Press Why Nationalism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A stimulating reading about nationalism and democracy for both scholars and practitioners interested in contemporary politics."---Alon Helled, Democratization
£14.24
Princeton University Press The Joshua Generation Israeli Occupation and the
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Princeton University Press Resurrecting the Jew
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Vucinich Book Award, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies""Winner of the Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award, The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America"
£25.20
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Rhetoric of Donald Trump Nationalist
Book SynopsisAnalyses the nationalist and populist themes that dominate the rhetoric of President Trump and links those themes to a persona that has evolved from celebrity outsider to presidential strongman. This is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand how Trump's rhetoric undermines basic principles at the heart of American democracy.Trade ReviewThe author provides a refreshingly clear-eyed, deeply-informed, and rigorously argued examination of the phenomenon that is Donald Trump. Rowland is especially helpful in exploring the relationship between the particulars of Trump's language practices and their more general implications for populism, democracy, and the American presidency. This is a work of singular achievement." - Stephen Howard Browne, professor of communication arts and sciences, Pennsylvania State University, and author of The First Inauguration: George Washington and the Invention of the Republic"Of some eighty studies of Trump's rhetoric that have appeared between 2015 and 2020, Robert Rowland's book The Rhetoric of Donald Trump: Nationalist Populism and American Democracy is the best. Rowland develops a theoretical framework that explains Trump's rhetoric and why it is effective. In so doing, he extends rhetorical theories of both affect and genre. As he notes, treating Trump's rhetoric as an expression of an affective genre is not only important for explaining Trump's success but also for illuminating the rise of nationalist populism in Europe and for suggesting important ways of extending genre criticism beyond a narrow situational approach. That Rowland is one of the leading theorists of genre studies gives his theoretical argument added power." - David A. Frank, professor of rhetoric, Clark Honors College, University of Oregon"The Rhetoric of Donald Trump takes the reader on an in-depth analysis of Trump's communication-from his campaign oratory to his presidential speeches and from his tweets to his COVID-19 briefings. Throughout this excellent book, Robert C. Rowland incisively demonstrates how Trump's unforgiving nationalism, populist attacks on elites, and violation of rhetorical norms, in tandem with the persona of a celebrity outsider that has evolved into that of an authoritarian leader, have forged a bond of identity with his followers that persists. Rowland also points to the grave dangers that Trump's rhetoric pose to American democracy." - Denise M. Bostdorff, author of The Presidency and the Rhetoric of Foreign Crisis and Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine: The Cold War Call to Arms"In this important and carefully researched volume, Professor Robert C. Rowland examines and critiques Donald Trump's strategic exploitation of some of the darkest and most divisive elements of American populist and anti-immigrant sentiments. Rowland provides a strong warning of the dangers posed to the vitality of our democracy and our most important institutions by this rhetoric. Trump and Trumpism have sadly captured the hearts and minds of the Republican Party and its most devoted followers, and this book explains why this style of discourse may persist for years to come." - Thomas A. Hollihan, professor, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, and author of Uncivil Wars: Political Campaigns in a Media Age
£37.76
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Real Americans National Identity Violence and
Book SynopsisBoldly challenges the conventional wisdom that a shared devotion to the Constitution is the essence of what it means to be American. In his careful analysis of US history, Jared Goldstein demonstrates how movements deploy the rhetoric of constitutional devotion to express their national visions and justify their violence.Trade ReviewProfessor Jared Goldstein deftly explores how persons with exclusionary ideologies have claimed that those ideologies are rooted in the same Constitution that other Americans have claimed is committed to realizing the creed laid out in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. Real Americans details the history of claims that the Constitution of the United States was designed for white persons, for Protestants, for native-born citizens, or for some combination of the three. An eye-opener and a page-turner on the dark side of American constitutional identity." - Mark A. Graber, regents professor, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law"From the country’s inception, Americans have used the language of constitutional fidelity and devotion not only to reaffirm desirable and civically unifying creedal principles but also to foment exclusionary, divisive, and morally reprehensible values. Racists, ethno- and Christian nationalists, and other illiberal extremists have consistently wrapped themselves in the mantle of the Constitution while casting themselves as the compact’s most loyal defenders. For this reason, we cannot afford to take pious invocations of constitutional faith at face value. Jared Goldstein’s seminal study is essential reading for anyone hoping to understand some of the most disturbing currents of contemporary American politics." - Ken I. Kersch, professor of political science, Boston College, and author of American Political Thought: An Invitation"Goldstein’s illuminating book does a beautiful job of highlighting the ideological elasticity of the federal US Constitution—the way in which constitutional loyalty has served as a critical bedrock for a wide variety of American nationalisms. Through a series of compelling case studies, Real Americans focuses especially on exclusionary and illiberal forms of national belonging that have been encased in constitutional rhetoric. This book is a bracing rejoinder to the more familiar and rosy presentations of American constitutional culture and deserves as broad an audience as possible." - Aziz Rana, Richard and Lois Cole Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
£73.10
University Press of Kansas Real Americans National Identity Violence and
Book SynopsisBoldly challenges the conventional wisdom that a shared devotion to the Constitution is the essence of what it means to be American. In his careful analysis of US history, Jared Goldstein demonstrates how movements deploy the rhetoric of constitutional devotion to express their national visions and justify their violence.Trade ReviewProfessor Jared Goldstein deftly explores how persons with exclusionary ideologies have claimed that those ideologies are rooted in the same Constitution that other Americans have claimed is committed to realizing the creed laid out in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. Real Americans details the history of claims that the Constitution of the United States was designed for white persons, for Protestants, for native-born citizens, or for some combination of the three. An eye-opener and a page-turner on the dark side of American constitutional identity." - Mark A. Graber, regents professor, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law"From the country’s inception, Americans have used the language of constitutional fidelity and devotion not only to reaffirm desirable and civically unifying creedal principles but also to foment exclusionary, divisive, and morally reprehensible values. Racists, ethno- and Christian nationalists, and other illiberal extremists have consistently wrapped themselves in the mantle of the Constitution while casting themselves as the compact’s most loyal defenders. For this reason, we cannot afford to take pious invocations of constitutional faith at face value. Jared Goldstein’s seminal study is essential reading for anyone hoping to understand some of the most disturbing currents of contemporary American politics." - Ken I. Kersch, professor of political science, Boston College, and author of American Political Thought: An Invitation"Goldstein’s illuminating book does a beautiful job of highlighting the ideological elasticity of the federal US Constitution—the way in which constitutional loyalty has served as a critical bedrock for a wide variety of American nationalisms. Through a series of compelling case studies, Real Americans focuses especially on exclusionary and illiberal forms of national belonging that have been encased in constitutional rhetoric. This book is a bracing rejoinder to the more familiar and rosy presentations of American constitutional culture and deserves as broad an audience as possible." - Aziz Rana, Richard and Lois Cole Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
£26.06
Pluto Press Surplus Citizens
Book SynopsisHow grassroots movements have survived and thrived amidst a harsh political and economic crisisTrade Review'An extraordinary achievement. Kotouza's incisive contribution to critical social theory and to the analysis of the contemporary dynamics of capitalist social relations should be read by all' -- Werner Bonefeld, author of 'Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: On Subversion and Negative Reason''In this original study, Kotouza powerfully shows how national social struggles, like the ones we witnessed in Greece in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, are littered with contradictions and exclusions. Nevertheless by taking the politics of the excluded as its horizon, Surplus Citizens offers us the hope of a more inclusive, transnational politics' -- Elena Loizidou, Birkbeck University of London'An extraordinary guide to our present' -- Joshua Clover, author of 'Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings''Breaking the ethno-national and state-centred cage into which discussions of the Greek crisis have largely been confined, Kotouza's book puts questions of race, gender and migration at the core of its analysis and provides us with a powerful model for investigating the dynamics and limits of contemporary surplus rebellions' -- Alberto Toscano, author of 'Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Transliteration List of Abbreviations Introduction: Squares and Frontiers PART I - HISTORIES: UNDEAD AND INVISIBLE CONFLICTS, TRANSFORMATIONS, CRISIS 1. The Making of Greek Capitalism through Race, Gender and Class 2. Victories, Defeats and Neoliberal Transformation, 1973–2008 3. Symptoms of Crisis PART II - BECOMING SURPLUS: STRUGGLE AND ITS LIMITS 4. Social Struggle, Non-Identity and Popular Democracy 5. Citizens from Democracy to Riot 6. Labour and Superfluity 7. Solidarity, Charity or Exchange? 8. The Forest Against Work, Workers Against the Forest 9. Care, Vulnerability and Gender Politics PART III - NATIONALISM, BIOPOLITICS AND STRUGGLE AT THE BORDERS 10. Everyday Racism, Crisis Nationalisms and Migrant ‘Autonomy’ 11. Surplus Population Management by a Nation-State in Crisis 12. Nationalism from Below 13. Migrant Struggle and Anti-Fascism Conclusion Index
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Pluto Press Surplus Citizens Struggle and Nationalism in the
Book SynopsisHow grassroots movements have survived and thrived amidst a harsh political and economic crisisTrade Review'An extraordinary achievement. Kotouza's incisive contribution to critical social theory and to the analysis of the contemporary dynamics of capitalist social relations should be read by all' -- Werner Bonefeld, author of 'Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: On Subversion and Negative Reason''In this original study, Kotouza powerfully shows how national social struggles, like the ones we witnessed in Greece in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, are littered with contradictions and exclusions. Nevertheless by taking the politics of the excluded as its horizon, Surplus Citizens offers us the hope of a more inclusive, transnational politics' -- Elena Loizidou, Birkbeck University of London'An extraordinary guide to our present' -- Joshua Clover, author of 'Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings''Breaking the ethno-national and state-centred cage into which discussions of the Greek crisis have largely been confined, Kotouza's book puts questions of race, gender and migration at the core of its analysis and provides us with a powerful model for investigating the dynamics and limits of contemporary surplus rebellions' -- Alberto Toscano, author of 'Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Transliteration List of Abbreviations Introduction: Squares and Frontiers PART I - HISTORIES: UNDEAD AND INVISIBLE CONFLICTS, TRANSFORMATIONS, CRISIS 1. The Making of Greek Capitalism through Race, Gender and Class 2. Victories, Defeats and Neoliberal Transformation, 1973–2008 3. Symptoms of Crisis PART II - BECOMING SURPLUS: STRUGGLE AND ITS LIMITS 4. Social Struggle, Non-Identity and Popular Democracy 5. Citizens from Democracy to Riot 6. Labour and Superfluity 7. Solidarity, Charity or Exchange? 8. The Forest Against Work, Workers Against the Forest 9. Care, Vulnerability and Gender Politics PART III - NATIONALISM, BIOPOLITICS AND STRUGGLE AT THE BORDERS 10. Everyday Racism, Crisis Nationalisms and Migrant ‘Autonomy’ 11. Surplus Population Management by a Nation-State in Crisis 12. Nationalism from Below 13. Migrant Struggle and Anti-Fascism Conclusion Index
£72.25
Pluto Press Under the Cover of Chaos
Book SynopsisA cultural analysis of anxiety, alienation and narcissism in America.Trade Review'A profound and insightful analysis of the diverse forces that have led to Trump's election. Everyone should read this book if they want to understand the rise of authoritarianism in the United States' -- Henry Giroux, McMaster University Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest, author of On Critical Pedagogy'This is a timely book, to say the least. Beyond the moment, however, Grossberg's vision is thought-provoking, stirring, even exciting as well as frightening because it shows that there are new things to say about the morass of American and other democratic politics today and new ways to understand our situation. It's also a rattling good read' -- Meaghan Morris, University of SydneyTable of ContentsPreface Part I: From Trump to the Conjuncture 1. The Terror and the Beast 2. Telling Stories and Stories Told 3. Other Stories are Possible, and Possibly Even Better Part II: In Search of the Conjuncture 4. The New Right 5. The Reactionary Right 6. Affective Landscapes Part III: A Conjunctural Politics 7. Back to the Present: A Reactionary Counter-Modernity 8. Conclusions? Appendix: Cultural Studies and Conjunctural Analysis Bibliography Thanks
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Pluto Press Under the Cover of Chaos Trump and the Battle for
Book SynopsisA cultural analysis of anxiety, alienation and narcissism in America.Trade Review'A profound and insightful analysis of the diverse forces that have led to Trump's election. Everyone should read this book if they want to understand the rise of authoritarianism in the United States' -- Henry Giroux, McMaster University Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest, author of On Critical Pedagogy'This is a timely book, to say the least. Beyond the moment, however, Grossberg's vision is thought-provoking, stirring, even exciting as well as frightening because it shows that there are new things to say about the morass of American and other democratic politics today and new ways to understand our situation. It's also a rattling good read' -- Meaghan Morris, University of SydneyTable of ContentsPreface Part I: From Trump to the Conjuncture 1. The Terror and the Beast 2. Telling Stories and Stories Told 3. Other Stories are Possible, and Possibly Even Better Part II: In Search of the Conjuncture 4. The New Right 5. The Reactionary Right 6. Affective Landscapes Part III: A Conjunctural Politics 7. Back to the Present: A Reactionary Counter-Modernity 8. Conclusions? Appendix: Cultural Studies and Conjunctural Analysis Bibliography Thanks
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Pluto Press 32 Counties The Failure of Partition and the Case
Book SynopsisPartitioning Ireland was an experiment that has lasted a century. Now it is time for it to come to an endTrade ReviewThe phrase 'If we don't learn from the past, we are doomed to repeat it', seems more apt about Ireland than anywhere else. To look at Ireland through the prism of class is to see not what might have been but what brightness the future might bring. Kieran Allen's new book is Irish history seen anew, from below, bristling with practical lessons for working-class struggle today' -- Eamonn McCann, politician, journalist and political activist'Showing how partition was not to separate two hostile cultures but a strategy to defend the British empire, it traces the grisly story through to the return of the national question today when Irish unity can be posed again on a new socialist basis. Essential reading for anyone who wants to change Irish society' -- Brid Smith, People Before Profit TD'An important contribution to a debate that has been reignited. It is an excellent tool for activists who are navigating the arguments in favour of ending partition' -- Gerry Carroll, MLA Stormont Assembly for West Belfast‘Makes a compelling case that Connolly’s class-oriented vision offers a way out of the sectarian maze Ireland has been trapped in since partition’ -- ‘Jacobin’'If there is one book you need to read to grasp what’s going on in Ireland, and Northern Ireland specifically, it must be Kieran Allen’s 32 Counties’ -- ‘Counterfire’Table of ContentsPreface 1. ‘A Carnival of Reaction’: The Origins of Partition 2. Republicans and Loyalists 3. British Imperialism 4. Managed Sectarianism 5. Protestant Workers 6. The Return of the National Question 7. The Left and Irish Unity 8. What Kind of United Ireland? Notes Index
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University of British Columbia Press Empires and Autonomy
Book SynopsisThis collaborative study explores moments in the history of globalization and autonomy to provide insights into changes overtaking the contemporary world.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Introduction / Stephen M. Streeter, John C. Weaver, and William D. Coleman2 Tibet and the Chinese World-Empire / Timothy Brook3 Litigating for Freedom in the British Empire, 1815-22: The Universal and Local in Tension / John C. Weaver4 Ottoman Military and Social Transformations, 1826-28: Engagement and Resistance in a Moment of Global Imperialism / Virginia Aksani5 Wired Religion: Spiritualism and Telegraphic Globalization in the Nineteenth Century / Jeremy Stolow6 The Internationalization of Capital Then and Now: The Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Samir Saul7 Global Industrial Enclaves: Company Towns and Export-Processing Zones Compared, 1900-2000 / Neil White8 Freedom of the Ether or the Electromagnetic Commons? Globality, the Public Interest, and Multilateral Radio Negotiations in the 1920s / Daniel Gorman9 A Globalization Moment: Franklin D. Roosevelt in Casablanca (January 1943) and the Decolonization/Development Impulse / Ronald W. Pruessen10 Paradigm Shift and the Nuremberg Trials: The Emergence of the Individual as a Subject and Object of International Law / Adrian L. Jones11 The US-Led Globalization Project in the Third World: The Struggle for Hearts and Minds in Guatemala and Vietnam in the 1960s / Stephen M. Streeter12 A Globalizing Moment: The United Nations' Decades for Development and the North African Countries / Yassine Essid13 Snakes That Are Rainbows: Indigenous Worldviews and the Constitution of Autonomy / Ravi De Costa14 Globalization and US Empire: Moments in the Forging of the Global Turn / Ulf HedetoftNotes; Works Cited; Contributors; Index
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University of British Columbia Press Against Orthodoxy
Book SynopsisThis volume challenges conventional approaches to the study of nationalism in the context of its violent resurgence.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Slobodan Drakulic and Trevor W. HarrisonPart 1: Theory and History1 Academic Nationalism / Slobodan Drakulic2 Do Nationalists Have Navels? Where Is Childhood in Nationalism Theory? / Karen Stanbridge3 Tolerant Majorities, Loyal Minorities, and “Ethnic Reversals”: Constructing Minority Rights at Versailles, 1919 / Liliana Riga and James KennedyPart 2: Minorities and Civil Society4 Neither Perennial nor Modern: Christian-Muslim Enmities in the Balkans / Slobodan Drakulic5 Understanding Multiculturalism in Divided Societies: Exploring a New Path / Elke Winter6 Canada’s French Fact -- or Facts? / Rémi Léger7 Civic and Ethnic Nationalist Narratives in Ethiopia / Sarah VaughanPart 3: Politics and the State8 Militarism and Nationalism in Japan / Trevor W. Harrison9 Who Are the Nationalists? A Profile of Scottish National Party Supporters / Michael Rosie and Ross Bond10 After the PRI: Neo-Liberalism and Nationalism in Mexico / Julián Castro-ReaPart 4: The International Dimension11 Messianic Nationalism: The American Imperative / Michael Parenti12 Islamic Nationalism, Imperialism, and the Middle East / Trevor W. Harrison13 Progressive Inter-Nationalist Nationalisms: The Return of Transformative, Anti-Imperialist Traditions / Gordon Laxer14 Implacable Foes or Strange Bedfellows? The Promise and Pitfalls of Eco-Nationalism in a Globalized World / John HanniganConclusion / Trevor W. Harrison and Slobodan DrakulicIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Rooted Cosmopolitanism
Book SynopsisCan national loyalties be reconciled with larger commitments to global well-being?Table of ContentsIntroduction: Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Canada and the World / Will Kymlicka and Kathryn Walker Part 1: The Theory of Rooted Cosmopolitanism 1 Cosmopolitanism and Patriotism / Kok-Chor Tan 2 A Defence of Moderate Cosmopolitanism and/or Moderate Liberal Nationalism / Patti Lenard and Margaret Moore 3 Universality and Particularity in the National Question in Quebec / Joseph-Yvon Thériault 4 Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Unpacking the Arguments / Daniel Weinstock 5 We Are All Compatriots / Charles Blattberg Part 2: The Practice of Rooted Cosmopolitanism 6 Cosmopolitanizing Cosmopolitanism? Cosmopolitan Claims-Making, Interculturalism, and the Bouchard-Taylor Report / Scott Schaffer 7 A World of Strangers or a World of Relationships? The Value of Care Ethics in Migration Research and Policy / Yasmeen Abu-Laban 8 The Doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect: A Failed Expression of Cosmopolitanism / Howard Adelman 9 Climate Change and the Challenge of Canadian Global Citizenship / Robert Paehlke Index
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Cornell University Press With Stalin against Tito
Book SynopsisIn 1948 in a series of moves that culminated in the famous Cominform Resolution, Stalin struck at the Communist Party in Yugoslavia, provoking the first split in the Communist state system. With this long-awaited book, Ivo Banac becomes the first scholar to assess the domestic consequences of Yugoslavia's expulsion from the Cominform, and his...Trade Review"Well-written, thoroughly researched, and carefully documented, this outstanding work not only provides concise coverage of the break between Tito and Stalin but also offers information essential for an understanding of the fundamental issues that led to the break." -- Charles Jelavisch, Indiana University
£73.95
Cornell University Press The Dreams of a More Perfect Union
Book SynopsisIn a brilliantly conceived and elegantly written book, Rogan Kersh investigates the idea of national union in the United States. For much of the period between the colonial era and the late nineteenth century, he shows, "union" was the principal...Trade ReviewDreams of a More Perfect Union is something truly remarkable—a nuanced, subtle examination of the idea of union in American thought. Rogan Kersh... begins by noting a puzzling fact. Although union was a powerful concept in the minds and hearts of a wide variety of Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, by the dawn of the twentieth century, it had all but faded away.... It is difficult to do justice to the complex story that Kersh tells.... In its rigor of analysis, depth of research, and clarity of exposition, it is the definitive study of its subject. Moreover, it deserves respectful attention as a methodological benchmark for all future studies of concepts in the history of American political thought. * Journal of American History *Incredibly, scant attention has been paid to the concept of union itself as an adhesive force for building a national community divided by geography, section, economy, and race. Rogan Kersh seeks to fill this gap in scholarship and provide a means of reconciling the competing republican and liberal interpretations with his excellent Dreams of a More Perfect Union.... While it was published before the attacks of September 11, it has a particular immediate relevance.... At a time when some American leaders are encouraging strong government and robust national patriotism as a means of self-definition, perhaps a reading of this work and a contemplation of their nineteenth-century forebears would point to a less abrasive form of self-expression. * Australian Journal of Politics and History *Rogan Kersh provides an insightful history of the concept of 'union' in American political and popular discourse.... As Kersh amply demonstrates, the scholarly oversight of union has been unfortunate. Understanding the concept of union is essential to understanding American politics from before the American Revolution until well after Reconstruction.... Kersh provides a fascinating and useful political and intellectual history of the concept of union in the United States, and his account will be of great interest to students of American political thought and nineteenth-century American politics. * American Historical Review *Kersh boldly asserts that union was as important a concept as republicanism or democracy in shaping the political consciousness of the United States until well after the Civil War.... He outlines an original and sophisticated interpretation examining the way in which the concept of union united a diverse people who feared to consider themselves a 'nation' under a centralized government. * Choice *No other concept—Americanism, nationalism, the state—can capture both the sentiments and purposes that union did. Union was, of course, a facade that hid self-interest... but it was also a way to express both national identity and diversity in a systematic fashion. It is far to early to speculate whether expressions such as 'United We Stand' will bring back union talk let alone if desirable forms will emerge. In any case, Rogan Kersh's Dreams of a More Perfect Union would be an excellent guide in any such effort. * Utopian Studies *
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MB - Cornell University Press The Political Economy of Virtue Luxury
Book SynopsisPolitical economy, John Shovlin asserts, can illuminate the social and economic contexts out of which a revolutionary impulse developed in France. Beyond the role of political economy in political life, massive public engagement with problems of...Trade ReviewExplores how French elites in the eighteenth and early nineteeth centuries sought to balence their interests and values with the need to regenerate a nation that had seemingly entered a period of decline. Discusses political economy and public life in eighteenth-century France; commerce finance and the luxery debate; constructing a patriot political economy; regenerating the patrie—agronomists, tzx reformers, and physiocrats; patriotic commerce and aristocratic luxery; political economy and the prerevolutionary crisis; the agrarian law and the republican farmer; and the political economy of the notables. * Journal of Economic Literature *
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MB - Cornell University Press Kidnapped Souls National Indifference and the
Book SynopsisZahra shows how nationalists in the Bohemian Lands worked to forge political cultures in which children belonged more rightfully to the national collective than to their parents.Trade ReviewTara Zahra captures and exhibits the elusive with remarkable documentation, impressive hard work, and exemplary historian's craft. Kidnapped Souls is not only an excellent book for providing the history of the essentially invisible actors (children), but, is also an exceptional achievement in writing the history of an absence (indifference to nationalism). * Canadian Journal of History *This innovative, thoroughly researched, comprehensive book breaks with traditional scholarship in important respects and poses fresh new historical questions. It is sure to be mined by a generation of readers for its rich contextualization and thoughtful analyses. * American Historical Review *
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Cornell University Press Borders among Activists
Book SynopsisSarah S. Stroup challenges the notion that political activism has gone beyond borders and created a global or transnational civil society. She offers detailed profiles of "varieties of activism" in the United States, Britain, and France.Trade ReviewA main strength of the book is its research design. While most studies of INGO's apply single case study method, the cross- and within-country comparative case analysis method sets a precedence for future studies. With this well-rounded research design and a sound analytical framework, Stroup makes a compelling case of national influence on INGOs. Academics and scholars in the fields of NGO studies, international development and global politics would find this book particularly interesting. The detailed case analyses of organizational strategies and practices may also help INGO leaders design programs and adopt practices that fit both national and global context. -- Lili Wang * Voluntas *"OverallStroup's book is a much-needed corrective to the too-easy assumption that a "global civil society" is emerging.... Stroup's work opens the door to greater scholarly focus on the tensions within what are often claimed to be "global" movements for rights or the environment."—Clifford Bob * Mobilization *In explaining how national environments mold INGOs, Stroup provides important insights into the strengths and limitations of these entities. Borrowing from social movement scholar Sidney Tarrow, Stroup defines INGOs as rooted cosmopolitans grounded in nation-states yet striving to affirm global values. Borders among Activists should be required reading for anyone interested in navigating the sea of organizations in the age of globalization. * American Journal of Sociology *Sarah Stroup's excellent new book shows that such convergence claims are overblownat least if humanitarian and human rights INGOs are any measure.... OverallStroup's book is a much-needed corrective to the too-easy assumption that a "global civil society" is emerging. Borders among Activists helps initiate an important new area of studyon the "varieties of activism".... Stroup’s careful analysis offers a reliable conceptual and methodological guide to tackling the issue." — Clifford Bob * Mobilization: An International Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Where Have All the Borders Gone? 1. Varieties of Activism in Three Countries 2. Humanitarian INGOs 3. Human Rights INGOs 4. Reconciling Global and LocalAppendix A: Case Selection Appendix B: Interviews ConductedReferences Index
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Cornell University Press Children of Rus
Book SynopsisIn Children of Rus'', Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The right bank, or west side, of the Dnieper Riverwhich today is located at the heart of the independent state of Ukrainewas one of the Russian empire's last territorial acquisitions, annexed only in the late eighteenth century. Yet over the course of the long nineteenth century, this newly acquired region nearly a thousand miles from Moscow and St. Petersburg generated a powerful Russian nationalist movement. Claiming to restore the ancient customs of the East Slavs, the southwest's Russian nationalists sought to empower the ordinary Orthodox residents of the borderlands and to diminish the influence of their non-Orthodox minorities.Right-bank Ukraine would seem unlikely terrain to nourish a Russian nationalist imagination. It was among the empire's most diverse corners, with few of its residents speaking Russian as their native langTrade ReviewChildren of Rus' breaks new ground in research on both Russian and Ukrainian history. It is a must read for everyone interested in empires, borderlands and nationalism, and I am hopeful it will generate a lovely discussion and a lot of new research. -- Serhii Plokhy * The Russian Review *In this excellent and valuable book, Faith Hillis explores the creation of a 'Little Russian' identity and how nationalist forces were unleashed in Ukrain's right bank in the late imperial period. This idea is conceptualised as one that celebrated both Slavic unity and local identity. Going beyond the standard depictions of a conflict between liberal and illiberal political forces in the late imperial period, a new approach is suggested— to understand 'how residents of the right bank came to conceive of local society in national terms in the first place' (p. 10). The study draws on a very wide range of sources, particularly the holdings of the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Kiev, to explore the words and actions of leaders and activists who espoused the Little Russian idea in the late imperial period. Whilst there are many strengths to this work, not least the scope and rigour of the research, perhaps the most novel contribution is to show how a number of activists managed to fuse national with local factors to create a series of movements based around the Little Russian idea that proved remarkably durable, throughout the imperial period and afterwards. -- George Gilbert * Revolutionary Russia *In this painstakingly researched book, Faith Hillis recovers the largely forgotten yet significant page in the history of the late Imperial Russia: the development of right-wing Russian nationalism on the empire's southwestern edge. In so doing, she challenges several traditional narratives of the late Imperial period. -- Serhy Yekelchyk * Slavic and East European Journal *Well written and chock full of insights into the politics of late Imperial RussiaChildren of Rus' is a model of meticulous scholarship and perceptive analysis and should be essential reading for anyone interested in learning about the complexities of Russian and Ukrainian identities. -- Robert Weinberg * Journal of Modern History *Children of Rus' is excellent microhistory, giving readers a detailed picture of Russian nationalism among Ukrainians after the 1860s. It is definitely wanting in terms of giving the "big picture" of Ukrainian national evolution in the empire. -- Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj, University of Alberta * H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online *Table of ContentsList of Maps Acknowledgments Note to the Reader Abbreviations Introduction Part One: The Little Russian Idea and the Russian Empire Chapter One: The Little Russian Idea and the Invention of a Rus' Nation Chapter Two: The Little Russian Idea in the 1860s Chapter Three: The Little Russian Idea and the Imagination of Russian and Ukrainian Nations Part Two: The Urban Crucible Chapter Four: Nationalizing Urban Politics Chapter Five: Concepts of Liberation Part Three: Forging a Russian Nation Chapter Six: Electoral Politics and Regional Governance Chapter Seven: Nationalizing the Empire Chapter Eight: The Limits of the Russian Nationalist Vision Epilogue Selected Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Blood Ties
Book SynopsisThe region that is today the Republic of Macedonia was long the heart of the Ottoman Empire in Europe. It was home to a complex mix of peoples and faiths who had for hundreds of years lived together in relative peace. To be sure, these people were no strangers to coercive violence and various forms of depredations visited upon them by bandits and state agents. In the final decades of the nineteenth century and throughout the twentieth century, however, the region was periodically racked by bitter conflict that was qualitatively different from previous outbreaks of violence. In Blood Ties, Ipek K. Yosmaoglu explains the origins of this shift from sporadic to systemic and pervasive violence through a social history of the Macedonian Question. Yosmaoglu's account begins in the aftermath of the Congress of Berlin (1878), when a potent combination of zero-sum imperialism, nascent nationalism, and modernizing states set in motion the events that directly contributed to the outbreakTrade ReviewYosmaoğlu's riveting and multifaceted study of Ottoman Macedonia adds to the extensive literature on the Macedonian Question at two levels: first, it constitutes the first systematic study of Ottoman sources related to the area (triangulated with French, British, and, sporadically, Greek accounts), and second, it provides an unambiguously bottom-up depiction of events at the community level. Yosmaoğlu partakes in a new scholarly trend—led by Isa Blumi, Christine Phylliou, and Ryan Gingeras, among others—to integrate imperial (Ottoman) and national (Balkan) viewpoints in one coherent narrative....[H]er ability to analyze conflicting accounts, empathize with the plight of Ottoman subjects, and reject stereotypes about the Balkans is admirable. -- Theodora Dragostinova * Slavic Review *"Yosmaoglu relies on theoretical literature in sociology and political science about the use of violence to frame her arguments and to comprehend the patterns of mayhem that marked late Ottoman Macedonia. Hence, her study is an important contribution to a range of literatures in history and the social sciences. It sheds much light on the antecedents of violence in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s." Chip Cagnon, Journal of Interdisciplinary HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction 1. The Ottoman Empire, the Balkans, and the Great Powers on the Road to Mürzsteg 2. Education and the Creation of National Space 3. Territoriality and Its Discontents 4. Fear of Small Margins 5. A Leap of Faith: Disputes over Sacred Space 6. Logic and Legitimacy in Violence Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Making Uzbekistan
Book SynopsisIn Making Uzbekistan, Adeeb Khalid chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution. He explores the complex interaction between Uzbek intellectuals, local Bolsheviks, and Moscow to sketch out the flux of the situation in early-Soviet Central Asia. His focus on the Uzbek intelligentsia allows him to recast our understanding of Soviet nationalities policies. Uzbekistan, he argues, was not a creation of Soviet policies, but a project of the Muslim intelligentsia that emerged in the Soviet context through the interstices of the complex politics of the period. Making Uzbekistan introduces key texts from this period and argues that what the decade witnessed was nothing short of a cultural revolution.Open Access edition funded by the National Endowment for the HumanitiesTrade Review[T]his brilliant book demonstrates that modern Uzbekistan was unequivocally made by Uzbek intellectuals in Central Asia, and not by Bolshevik commissars in Moscow. Adeeb Khalid has offered invaluable evidence to argue that Central Asia's political fate remains equally in the hands of local leaders, and is not determined by obscure outside forces. It is in this sense that Making Uzbekistan will make a lasting contribution to Central Asian Studies. * Europe-Asia Studies *Khalid successfully compiles an impressive and outstanding account of the unfolding events in the making of Uzbekistan in the tumultuous epoch of the Russian Revolution as a result of his encyclopedic comprehension of the sociohistorical considerations of the period and his unique linguistic capabilities. * Acta Via Serica *Adeeb Khalid's Making Uzbekistan is a careful reconstruction of Muslim reformist thought in Turkestan, which advances considerably our understanding of the reasons why sections of the local intelligentsia participated actively in the Soviet construction. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Intelligentsia and Reform in Tsarist Central Asia 2. The Moment of Opportunity 3. Nationalizing the Revolution 4. The Muslim Republic of Bukhara 5. The Long Road to Soviet Power 6. A Revolution of the Mind 7. Islam between Reform and Revolution 8. The Making of Uzbekistan 9. Tajik as a Residual Category 10. The Ideological Front 11. The Assault 12. Toward a Soviet Order Epilogue Glossary Bibliography of Primary Sources Index
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Cornell University Press The Political Economy of Virtue
Book SynopsisPolitical economy, John Shovlin asserts, can illuminate the social and economic contexts out of which a revolutionary impulse developed in France. Beyond the role of political economy in political life, massive public engagement with problems of...Trade ReviewExplores how French elites in the eighteenth and early nineteeth centuries sought to balence their interests and values with the need to regenerate a nation that had seemingly entered a period of decline. Discusses political economy and public life in eighteenth-century France; commerce finance and the luxery debate; constructing a patriot political economy; regenerating the patrie—agronomists, tzx reformers, and physiocrats; patriotic commerce and aristocratic luxery; political economy and the prerevolutionary crisis; the agrarian law and the republican farmer; and the political economy of the notables. * Journal of Economic Literature *
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Cornell University Press In Defense of Christian Hungary
Book SynopsisIn this important historical account of the role that religion played in defining the political life of a modern national society, Paul A. Hanebrink shows how Hungarian nationalists redefined Hungarya liberal society in the nineteenth centuryas a narrowly Christian nation in the aftermath of World War I. Drawing on impressive archival research, Hanebrink uncovers how political and religious leaders demanded that Christian values influence public life while insisting that religion should never be reduced to the status of a simple nationalist symbol.In Defense of Christian Hungary also explores the emergence of the idea that a destructive Jewish spirit was the national enemy. In combining the historical study of antisemitism with more recent considerations of religion and nationalism, Hanebrink addresses an important question in Central European historiography: how nations that had been inclusive of Jews before World War I became rabidly antisemitic during the interwar pTrade ReviewHanebrink in his excellent, well-researched study brings together important questions concerning nationalism, religion, and the ever-present issue of antisemitism.... The novel aspect of Hanebrink's work is to place religion at the center of the definition of nation and thereby connect it to the growth of antisemitism. * Slavic Review *
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Cornell University Press Window on the East
Book SynopsisRobert Geraci presents an exceptionally original account of both the politics and the lived experience of diversity in a society whose ethnic complexity has long been downplayed. For centuries, Russians have defined their country as both a...Trade ReviewGeraci's fascinating book uses a variety of well-documented analyses and examples to examine the ambiguities of nationality and assimilation in the late imperial period. He weaves material from local archives, contemporary periodicals, ethnographic texts, and memoirs to present a multilayered analysis of ethnic life in the Kazan region.... This thought-provoking and extremely well-written book should be on the reading list of anyone interested in the ambiguities created when nationality, identity, and the goals of empire intersect. Geraci raises a number of questions about Russianness and convincingly shows how assimilation was difficult to achieve and define. -- Margaret Foley * Slavic and East European Journal *What does it mean to be Russian?... How do these identities arise and develop, how do they affect the identities of neighboring national groups' These are the central question considered by Robert Geraci's brilliant study of the Tatar-Russian city of Kazan in the nineteenth century.... A short review cannot do justice to the richness and breadth of this book.... More important than the breadth of sources, however, is the nuanced and intelligent use of these documents. The book truly integrates the sources into a compelling and engrossing narrative, spiked with illuminating analytical insights. Perhaps best of all, Geraci is a gifted writer whose precision and elegance of expression is exemplary. -- Theodore R. Weeks * H-Russia, H-Net Reviews *Geraci's splendid book brings the story into the era of modern Russian nationalism, the dilemmas of modern empire, and the Islamic response to the pressures of European modernity.... Rich in detail and nuance, Geraci's book tells one much about Russian assumptions about themselves, the Muslim other, and empire.... This excellent book is... free of jargon and easy to read. It fills a big gap in the history both of Russia's empire and of European empire in general. -- Dominic Lieven * Slavic Review *In a climate of Islamic religious revival combined with growing racial intolerance among the dominant, Christian nationality, how does a European government integrate its Muslim minorities. Citizens of France, Germany, and other contemporary Western states who are grappling with this question today will not be heartened by Window on the East,... Robert Geraci's thoughtful account of the Romanov autocracy's unsuccessful efforts to integrate its eastern ethnicities a century ago.... Geraci is not the only scholar to have written about these tsarist efforts to win the hearts and minds of Kazan's minorities, but his book extends far beyond educational policy by also examining the ways in which Russians perceived the region's nationalities through the lenses of 'Orientology' and ethnography. -- David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye * Journal of Modern History *The scholarship is sound and the work is rich with valuable insights. * Choice *Under the last three tsars, most educated Russians agreed that the assimilation of the empire's eastern 'aliens' (inorodsty) was either desirable, necessary, inevitable, or some combination of the three, but agreeing on particulars was more difficult.... Robert Geraci's fascinating book deftly exposes the complexity of this situation by examining the discussion on Russianness and assimilation that unfolded within the academic, missionary, and pedagogical circles of the Kazan region in the years between the 1860s and 1917.... His book is sophisticated, nuanced, and richly researched, and it should become a fundamental study of Russian nationality in the late Imperial era. -- Willard Sunderland * Russian Review *
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Cornell University Press The Orient Within
Book SynopsisBulgaria is a Slavic nation, Orthodox in faith but with a sizable Muslim minority. That minority is divided into various ethnic groups, including the most numerically significant Turks and the so-called Pomaks, Bulgarian-speaking men and women who have converted to Islam. Mary Neuburger explores how Muslim minorities were integral to Bulgaria''s struggle to extricate itself from its Ottoman past and develop a national identity, a process complicated by its geographic and historical positioning between evolving and imagined parameters of East and West. The Orient Within examines the Slavic majority''s efforts to conceptualize and manage Turkish and Pomak identities and bodies through gendered dress practices, renaming of people and places, and land reclamation projects. Neuburger shows that the relationship between Muslims and the Bulgarian majority has run the gamut from accommodation to forced removal to total assimilation from 1878, when Bulgaria acquired autonomy frTrade ReviewIt is a rare pleasure to read a book on a subject so multifaceted and to find the product refreshingly erudite, concise, and a well-written example of meticulous scholarship. Mary Neuburger's text will be a standard for years to come. Her research is thorough and incisive; she has examined recent scholarship and analyzed it for the benefit of her readers. She has also filled her narrative with abundant supportive examples that will leave even the most skeptical reader satisfied she has made her point well.... This is outstanding work.... Neuburger does a commendable job of dealing with the entire question of Bulgarian identity.... I can think of no criticism of this work. * American Historical Review *Mary Neuburger describes how the veil, fez, and other trappings of Arabo-Turkic culture in Bulgaria became important instruments to define an emerging Bulgarian national identity.... Neuburger's scope is the whole of modern Bulgarian history, and she shows how the process of making Bulgarians out of Pomaks was not a straightforward process. * Times Literary Supplement *Nationalism has been the bane of the Balkans for the past two centuries. Each country has dealt with the phenomenon according to its own definitions and has interacted with its minorities accordingly, ranging from absorption to ethnic cleansing.... This scholarly yet quite readable book... examines the various pressures on the Muslim populations that ranged from forced assimilation to forced emigration.... While focusing on the Muslim minorities, Neuburger provides a sound history of modern Bulgaria and its bout with modernity. * Choice *Neuburger carefully explores how Muslim minorities sometimes resisted, sometimes diverted, and sometimes accommodated the modernizing schemes of those in power. * Foreign Affairs *Table of ContentsPreface A Note on Transliteration, Translation, and SourcesIntroduction 1. The Bulgarian Figure in the Ottoman Carpet: Untangling Nation from Empire 2. Muslim Rebirth: Nationalism, Communism, and the Path to 1984 3. Under the Fez and the Foreskin: Modernity and the Mapping of Muslim Manhood 4. The Citizen behind the Veil: National Imperatives and the Re-dressing of Muslim Women 5. A Muslim by Any "Other" Name: The Power of Naming and Renaming 6. On What Grounds the Nation?: Parcels of Land and Meaning ConclusionBibliography Index
£23.39
Cornell University Press Heretics and Colonizers
Book SynopsisIn Heretics and Colonizers, Nicholas B. Breyfogle explores the dynamic intersection of Russian borderland colonization and popular religious culture.Trade ReviewHeretics and Colonizers builds on the vision of the Russian Empire as a complex and multilevel system marked by social and administrative diversity. It is a very important book that should appeal to students of religion, nationalism, and empire in both Russian and European contexts. * American Historical Review *An outstanding work of scholarship, Heretics and Colonizers offers fresh insight into the subtle and complex relationships between religious sectarianism, tsarist nation-building, and frontier identity. By delving into the lives of Dukhobors, Molokans, and Subbotniks in the Caucasus, Nicholas B. Breyfogle reveals the rich tapestry of Russia's sectarian past. It is the most comprehensive, the most reliable, and the most readable book on this subject and period that I have encountered. * Doukhobor Genealogy Website *Breyfogle's book is an important contribution to the social, cultural, and environmental history of Russian imperialism and popular religiosity. * Slavic Review *The long history of Russia's self-colonization has been marked by a combination of compulsion and voluntarism. Here Nicholas B. Breyfogle explores a fascinating element of that history, which illustrates graphically the contradictions in the policies pursued by the Russian state. * Slavonic and East European Review *This is a book that all specialists in imperial Russia, the Caucasus, and Russian religion need to read. It should also be required for those interested in Russian frontiers or environmental history. It is, finally, accessible and well suited to classroom use. * Canadian American Slavic Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on Translation and TransliterationAbbreviationsMapsIntroductionPART I: THE ROAD TO TRANSCAUCASIA1. Toleration through IsolationThe Edict of 1830 and the Origins of Russian Colonization in Transcaucasia2. To a Land of PromiseSectarians and the Resettlement ExperiencePART II: LIFE ON THE SOUTH CAUCASIAN FRONTIER3. "In the Bosom of an Alien Climate"Ecology, Economy, and Colonization4. Heretics into ColonizersChanging Roles and Transforming Identities on the Imperial Periphery5. Frontier EncountersConflict and Coexistence between Colonists and South CaucasiansPART III: THE DUKHOBOR MOVEMENT6. From Colonial Settlers To Pacifist InsurgentsThe Origins of the Dukhobor Movement, 1887–18957. Peasant Pacifism and Imperial InsecuritiesThe Burning of Weapons, 1895–1899The End of an Era and Its MeaningsSelected BibliographyIndex
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MB - Cornell University Press Kidnapped Souls
Book SynopsisZahra shows how nationalists in the Bohemian Lands worked to forge political cultures in which children belonged more rightfully to the national collective than to their parents.Trade ReviewTara Zahra captures and exhibits the elusive with remarkable documentation, impressive hard work, and exemplary historian's craft. Kidnapped Souls is not only an excellent book for providing the history of the essentially invisible actors (children), but, is also an exceptional achievement in writing the history of an absence (indifference to nationalism). * Canadian Journal of History *This innovative, thoroughly researched, comprehensive book breaks with traditional scholarship in important respects and poses fresh new historical questions. It is sure to be mined by a generation of readers for its rich contextualization and thoughtful analyses. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. "Czech Schools for Czech Children!"2. Teachers, Orphans, and Social Workers3. Warfare, Welfare, and the End of Empire4. Reclaiming Children for the Nation5. Freudian Nationalists and Heimat Activists6. Borderland Children and Volkstumsarbeit under Nazi Rule7. Stay-at-Home Nationalism8. Reich-Loyal Czech NationalismEpilogueIndex
£20.79
Cornell University Press Modern Hatreds
Book SynopsisWhat is it about ethnicity that breaks countries apart and drives people to acts of savage violence against their lifelong neighbors? Stuart Kaufman finds the roots of ethnic violence in myths and symbols, the stories ethnic groups tell about who they are.Trade ReviewModern Hatreds is an excellent and timely contribution to scholarship on ethnic war.... Kaufman manages to combine a thoroughly researched and detailed analysis of the case studies and the construction of a hypothesis that may explain, to some extent, the emergence of ethnic war. * Journal of International Studies *Convincing in arguing that ethnic violence is not the result of 'ancient hatreds,' and that contemporary politics and the struggle for power among individuals and elite groups largely determine who will engage in violence and who, ultimately, will get killed. * New York Review of Books *This detailed work on the history of hatred provides a thoughtful perspective of events and motivations that should fascinate any serious reader. * Political Science Quarterly *While providing excellent background of ethnic wars, Modern Hatreds is not simply a historical text. It offers a modern interpretation of the many recent individual conflicts, and helps knit together the broader themes that are relevant to them all. * National Journal *Table of Contents1. Stories about Ethnic War2. The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War3. Karabagh and the Fears of Minorities4. Georgia and the Fears of Majorities5. Elite Conspiracy in Moldova's Civil War6. Government Jingoism and the Fall of Yugoslavia7. The Power of SymbolsNotesIndex
£22.39
Cornell University Press Nobility Reimagined
Book SynopsisThe mature nationalism that fueled the French Revolution grew from patriotic sensibilities fostered over the course of a century or more. Jay M. Smith proposes that the French thought their way to nationhood through a process of psychic adjustment...Trade Review"In this elegant, thought-provoking book, Jay M. Smith challenges us to rethink the status of traditional elites in the social imaginary of prerevolutionary France. The book's thesis about the relationship between nobility and patriotism overturns many hallowed assumptions about images of a 'reactionary' aristocracy and should provoke lively debate in the field." -- Sarah C. Maza, Jane Long Professor in the Humanities, Northwestern University"Nobility Reimagined is a lively, nuanced, and learned account of the eighteenth century's political imagination. Jay M. Smith explores the complicated ways in which writers combined a shared repertory of ideas about social distinction and community; the result is a significant contribution to our understanding of the cultural and social origins of the French Revolution." -- Jonathan Dewald, UB Distinguished Professor, University at Buffalo
£31.35
Cornell University Press The Nation in the Village
Book SynopsisHow do peasants come to embrace nationalist sentiment? Exploring the complex case of Poles in Austrian Galicia, the author challenges the widely-accepted argument that national sentiment originates among intellectuals or urban middle classes, then "trickles down" to peasants and the proletariat.Trade ReviewThe Nation in the Village prompts a generous run of intriguing questions pertinent to (and often challenging) the prevailing historiography of nationalism and the peasantry in Poland. * Slavic and Eastern European Review *Insightful and innovative... Stauter-Halsted's book is a fine example that draws on a dazzling array of printed and archival sources to reveal what peasants themselves were saying, writing, thinking, and dreaming about any future Polish nation.... The fresh approach to the village and identity will make a strong contribution to the literature on nationalism, peasant studies, and the public sphere. it should be essential reading for anyone interested in modern Europe, the peasantry, and national identity. * H-Net Reviews *Keely Stauter-Halsted's new monograph combines the best of intellectual worlds: it is not only richly informed by theoretical and historical works on identity formation, civil society, subaltern studies, peasant nationalism, and cultural studies but by extensive materials from archives in Warsaw, Krakow, and Lvov. The result of her intellectual efforts in an insightful study of the political, social, and cultural transformation of Galician serfs into members of the Polish nation during the postemancipation period and how the peasants themselves were instrumental in this transformation.... She set the bar quite high for those who wish to investigate the creation, establishment, and maintenance of a Polish national identity. * Slavic Review *This study makes an important contribution to the growing literature on nationalism in Eastern Central Europe. * Polish Review *This volume makes a major contribution to the ever-growing literature of nationalism by emphasizing the plurality and dynamism of the process. It is well illustrated and indexed and includes an excellent bibliography. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Roots of Nationalism in the Polish VillagePart I. Politics in the Postemancipation Galician Village1. Emancipation and Its Discontents2. The Roots of Peasant Civil Society: Premodern Politics in the Galician Village3. Customs in Conflict: Peasant Politics in the Viennese Reichstag and the Galician Sejm4. Making Government Work: The Village Commune as a School for Political ActionPart II. The Construction of a Peasant Pole5. The Peasant as Literary and Ethnographic Trope6. The Gentry Construction of Peasants: Agricultural Circles and the Resurgence of Peasant Culture7. Education and the Shaping of a Village Elite8. The Nation in the Village: Competing Images of Poland in Popular Culture9. The Village in the Nation: Polish Peasants as a Political ForceConclusion: The Main Currents of Peasant NationalismBibliographyIndex
£24.69
Cornell University Press Language and Power
Book SynopsisIn this lively book, Benedict R. O'G Anderson explores the cultural and political contradictions that have arisen from two critical facts in Indonesian history—that while the Indonesian nation is young, the Indonesian state is ancient, originating in...Trade Review"A wonderful collection, rich in ideas and interpretations. In my reading, the central theme of this book is the crisis in Javanese culture which began in the seventeenth century and the attempts of successive generations of Javanese-Indonesians to deal with the crisis." -- R. William Liddle"These writings, largely unknown the wide audience Anderson now commands, offer specialists and nonspecialists alike a fascinating perspective on Indonesian culture, as well as an intellectual chronology of a major Southeast Asianist and social theorist." -- J. Joseph Errington
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University of Toronto Press The Irish Question 18401921
Book SynopsisProfessor Mansergh offers an analysis of the nature of The Irish Question, 1840-1921. His study is not a narrative history. While the problems with which it deals have been suggested by the period it covers, it is with the problems and not the period it covers, it is with the problems and not the period that it is at root concerned. Those problems are: the interrelation of economic and social with political forces, the impact of Irish discontent upon the Liberal conversion to Home Rule, the character of the political, cultural and social forces behind revolutionary Irish nationalism; and the changing nature of the concept itself. Much attention is given to the implications of Anglo-Irish relations in the wider context of nationalist-Imerial conflicts and for that reason special and ciritcal studies are made of the reflections and writingsof the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville and his friend de Beaumont, of Italian nationalists, notably Cabour and Mazzini, and of Marx, Enge
£27.90
University of Toronto Press Tariff and Science Policies
Book SynopsisThis controversial analysis of economic nationalism will interest economists and those concerned with nationalism and the competitive position of Canadian manufacturing. It is the first attempt to test empirically an economic model of nationalism, a model which implies than an emphasis on nationalism ultimately reduces economic efficiency – with low-income groups bearing most of the resultant cost – and redistributes income from lower – to upper-income individuals.Applying the model to federal commercial and science policies, the authors argue that these policies have contributed to the high costs and low productivity of Canadian manufacturing and retarded the adoption of new processes and improved techniques. They find that the costs of these are borne by the urban workers and the consumer, while the major beneficiaries are Canadian managers, scientists, and engineers. The efficiency and competitive position of Canadian industry are reduced and income re
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University of Toronto Press Rome in Canada
Book SynopsisIn the three decades after Confederation, an aggressive Anglo-Saxon nationalism struggled to imprint its cultural model on the emerging Canadian state. It was countered by a defensive French-Canadian nationalism chiefly articulated by a majority within the Roman Catholic clergy. In this study Roberto Perin explores the role of the Vatican in this struggle, and in the political, religious, and cultural life of Canada during this period.
£26.09
University of Nebraska Press The Sovereign Colony
Book SynopsisBy examining how the Olympic movement developed in Puerto Rico, Antonio Sotomayor illuminates the profound role sports play in the political and cultural processes of an identity that developed within a political tradition of autonomy rather than traditional political independence.Trade Review"Sotomayor gives undergraduate students and specialists an authoritative compendium of Puerto Rico’s politics during a period when the territory was billed as a regional showcase for the benefits of American power."—Reinaldo L. Román, American Historical Review"Sports is a subject that has not been studied in depth in Puerto Rican historiography in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and this book contributes to filling that void."—Felix R. Huertas Gonzalez, Journal of American History"Well written, meticulously researched, and very timely, this book is highly recommended to both scholar and lay reader alike."—Sport in American History"[The Sovereign Colony is] a reading feast for Puerto Rican sport fans. . . . It contributes to the understanding of colonialism where the agency of colonial subjects is emphasized in their negotiations of power structures. . . . A must read for scholars of U.S. and Caribbean history."—Rosa Elena Carrasquillo, Diplomatic History"An innovative approach to Puerto Rico's coloniality through the prism of sports. . . . This accessible account of Puerto Rican sport provides a great introduction to the complex issues of contemporary coloniality and will be an excellent addition to undergraduate collections."—B. A. Lucero, Choice“How is it that Puerto Rico participates with a sovereign team in the International Olympic Games? The answer to that question and Puerto Rico’s sporting success in the Central American and Caribbean Games provides the fascinating subject for Antonio Sotomayor’s book. He explains the baffling and perplexing dimensions of international sport.”—William H. Beezley, author of Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico "Sotomayor's impressive volume says not only a great deal about the relationship between Puerto Rico and the US, but can be used in parallel to analyze similar colonial and territorial interrelationships within the geopolitics of global sport."—Matthew L. McDowell, Spectacular Tableau“A highly readable book that invites us to rethink many familiar tenets about contemporary colonialism, adding an important dimension to the last quarter century’s debates on what constitutes a nation—and how sports may help fashion one.”—Francisco A. Scarano, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–MadisonTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction 1. Sport in Imperial Exchanges 2. The Rise of a Colonial Olympic Movement, 1930s 3. Legitimizing Colonial Olympism in a Colonial Nation, 1940s 4. The Commonwealth and the Search for Colonial Sovereignty through Olympism 5. A Cold War Playing Field in the 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games 6. The Eternal Overtime? Notes Bibliography Index
£45.00
Stanford University Press The Revenge of the Past Nationalism Revolution
Book SynopsisThis timely and pathbreaking work shows how and why the dramatic collapse of the soviet Union was caused in large part by nationalism, that is, by the increasingly urgent demands of the subject nationalities of the Soviet Union for independence and autonomy.Trade Review"This is a briliant tour-de-force analysis of the history of ethnopolitics in the tsarist and Soviet empires. Students and scholars alike will welcome the succinct outline of state policies, social processes, and focal events forming the identities of groups and nations. . . . A very important and useful book . . . more durable than other recent publications dealing with the ethnic dimension of the Soviet collapse."—Slavic Review"Here is the book of choice if one wants a succinct treatment of nationalism past and present in the former Soviet Union."—Foreign AffairsTable of ContentsContents Naimark Norman M. 1. 2. 3. 4.
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Stanford University Press Making a Nation Breaking a Nation Literature and
Book SynopsisThis work explores the role of literature in the former Yugoslavia's attempts to create a multicultural nation. It focuses on the cultural processes by which the idea of a nation was developed and on the reasons that this idea failed to bind the South Slavs into a viable nation and state.Trade Review“Discussing the rise and fall of Yugoslavia from a cultural point of view, that is, how the culture(s) of the country contributed to its formation and to its dissolution, this book leads to an entirely new and more accurate understanding of the tragedy of Yugoslavia.”—Vasa Mihailovich, University of North CarolinaTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The rise of the Yugoslav national idea; 2. Creating a synthetic Yugoslav culture; 3. Supranational Yugoslav culture: brotherhood and unity; 4. The precipitous rise and calamitous fall of multinational Yugoslavia; Conclusion; Notes; Index.
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University of Pennsylvania Press Ethnocracy
Book Synopsis"An important book which adds the often neglected angle of political geography to the growing body of critical research on the Israeli state and society, and on the Jewish-Arab conflict."-Baruch Kimmerling, The Hebrew University of JerusalemTrade Review"Yiftachel's admirable work attempts both to characterise the nature of the Israeh state and to draw moral implications from such characterisation. On the basis of his analysis Yiftachel offers his vision for what he and many others refer to as 'Israel-Palestine'. Yiftachel asks, and attempts to answer, two interrelated questions: first, 'what kind of a polity is the state of Israel?', and second, 'what kind of a society is Israeh society?' Conventional wisdom would answer both questions with the word 'democratic'. However, Yiftachel's book masterfully challenges such an answer. His claim is that the state of Israel, uncritically dubbed as 'Jewish-democratic', belongs to a group of states that ought to be referred to as 'ethnocracies'. Israeli society is also an ethnocratic society." * Holy Land Studies *"A thoughtful, humane, and arresting book. . . . It ranges widely, contributing to a number of discussions in political geography, political sociology, and planning." * Planning Theory *"An important book that adds the often neglected angle of political geography to the growing body of critical research on the Israeli state and society, and on the Jewish-Arab conflict." * Baruch Kimmerling, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem *Table of ContentsPreface PART I. SETTINGS 1. Introduction 2. The Ethnocratic Regime: The Politics of Seizing Contested Territory PART II. ETHNOCRACY AND TERRITORY IN ISRAEL/PALESTINE 3. Zionist and Palestinian Nationalism: The Making of Territorial Identities 4. Debating Israeli Democracy 5. The Making of Ethnocracy in Israel/Palestine 6. The Spatial Foundation: the Israeli Land System PART III. ETHNOCRACY AND ITS PERIPHERIES: PALESTINIAN ARABS AND MIZRAHIM 7. Fractured Regionalism among Palestinian Arabs in Israel 8. Bedouin Arabs and Urban Ethnocracy in the Beer-Sheva Region 9. Mizrahi Identities in the Development Towns: The Making of a Third Space 10. Between Local and National: Mobilization in the Mizrahi Peripheries PART IV. LOOKING AHEAD 11. A Way Forward? The Planning of a Binational Capital in Jerusalem 12. Epilogue: A Demos for Israel/Palestine? Toward Phased Binationalism Notes Appendix References Index
£59.50
University of Pennsylvania Press After Civil War
Book SynopsisAfter Civil War compares the postconflict reconstruction projects of Bosnia, Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Spain, and Turkey to explore how former combatants and their supporters learn to coexist as one nation in the aftermath of ethnopolitical or ideological violence.Trade Review"This important book may well be the first serious comparative study of how European societies reconstruct national identities after civil conflict. The cases, from Ireland and Finland early in the twentieth century to the 1998 peace agreement in Northern Ireland, are varied in their approaches but all interesting and enlightening. The contributors find that in most cases the political system was rebuilt first, while societal reconciliation took many decades-an important lesson for peace processors everywhere." * Stuart Kaufman, University of Delaware *Table of ContentsIntroduction —Bill Kissane PART I. RECONSTRUCTING THE NATION IN INTERWAR EUROPE Chapter 1. The Legacy of Civil War of 1918 in Finland —Risto Alapuro Chapter 2. "A Nation Once Again"? Electoral Competition and the Reconstruction of National Identity After the Irish Civil War, 1922-1923 —Bill Kissane Chapter 3. State, Nation, and Violence in Spanish Civil War Reconstruction —Michael Richards PART II. RECONSTRCTION WITHOUT CONFLICT RESOLUTION Chapter 4. Enemies of the Nation—A Nation of Enemies: The Long Greek Civil War —Riki van Boeschoten Chapter 5. Political Contention and the Reconstruction of Greek Identity in Cyprus, 1960-23 —Chares Demetriou Chapter 6. Under (Re)Construction: The State, the Production of Identity, and the Countryside in the Kurdistan Region in Turkey —Joost Jongerden PART III. RECONSTRUCTION UNDER EXTERNAL SUPERVISION Chapter 7. Ethnicity Pays: The Political Economy of Postconflict Nationalism in Bosnia-Herzegovina —Denisa Kostovicova and Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic Chapter 8. Nationalism and Beyond: Memory and Identity in Postwar Kosovo/Kosova —Ruth Seifert Chapter 9. Reconstruction Without Reconciliation: Is Northern Ireland a "Model"? —James Hughes Conclusion —Bill Kissane Index Acknowledgments
£59.50
University of Pennsylvania Press Nationalism Language and Muslim Exceptionalism
Book SynopsisDrawing on fieldwork in Iraq, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines, Nationalism, Language, and Muslim Exceptionalism compares the politics of six Muslim separatist movements, locating shared language and print culture as a central factor in Muslim ethnonational identity.Trade Review"An entirely original and important contribution to the study of nationalism, this book brings together a broad range of ideas about ethnicity, language, and religion and deftly weaves together an elegant theory that not only explains why some Muslim societies choose to turn toward or away from fundamentalism but what to do about it." * John A. Hall, James McGill Professor in Sociology, McGill University *Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Muslim Nations Chapter 3. National Tongues Chapter 4. Modern Standard Arabs Chapter 5. Tongue Ties: The Kurds of Iraq Chapter 6. Natives of the "New Frontier": The Uyghurs of Xinjiang Chapter 7. Print Culture and Protest: The Sindhis of Pakistan Chapter 8. Speaking to the Nation: The Kashmiris of India Chapter 9. From Nationalism to Islamism? The Acehnese of Indonesia Chapter 10. Religious Community Versus Ethnic Diversity: The Moros of the Philippines Chapter 11. Nationalism, Language, and Islam Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£62.90
Rutgers University Press Nations and Nationalism A Reader
Book Synopsis Nationalism has become a topic of wide-ranging significance and heated debate over recent years, with a huge expansion in the amount of literature available. Bringing together the best and most representative of these writings, Nations and Nationalism is an essential reader for students of political theory and related fields. Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Part 1 THE ORIGINS OF NATIONALISM Part 2 APPROACHES TO NATIONALISM Part 3 DIFFERENTIATING NATIONALISM - NATIONALISM, RACISM, ETHNICITY Part 4 FORMS OF NATIONALISM Part 5 NATIONAL SELF-DETERMINATION AND NATIONALIST MOBILISATION Part 6 GLOBALISATION, CITIZENSHIP AND NATIONALISM Further Reading References Copyright Acknowledgements Index
£34.20
Wayne State University Press Pan Africanism in the African Diaspora An
Book SynopsisBased on original materials gathered from extensive international travel, hundreds of interviews and empirical field research, thims text studies Pan-African organizations and their political activities inside black communities.
£27.96
New York University Press Black Sun Aryan Cults Esoteric Nazism and the
Book SynopsisOffers a unique perspective on far right neo-Nazism viewing it as a new form of Western religious heresyTrade Review"Excellent book provides a lucid and often chilling guide." * Journal of European Studies *"Presents a troubling picture of the mindset of the modern Far Right." * Library Journal *"[An] important work." * Philadelphia Inquirer *"Anyone who remembers the devastation wrought by Nazi fanaticism can only be astonished and dismayed by this book. Who could have foreseen that half a century after the defeat of the Third Reich the Jews would once again be perceived as a demonic power intent on destroying the & Aryan race, or that Hitler would be imagined as a divine being who is about to return to earth to complete the Holocaust? For the matter, who could have foreseen that the preposterous & pagan cult developed by Heinrich Himmler would ever be revived? Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke shows not only that these things have indeed happened but how and why they have happened. He also suggests what dangers they may portend. Black Sun is both an enthralling and a deeply disturbing work. It deserves the most serious attention and a wide readership." -- Norman Cohn,author of The Pursuit of the Millennium and Warrant for Genocide"Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke has done pioneering work in the field of the occult roots of Nazism. In the present volume he performs the same invaluable service with regard to the ideological fantasies of post war neofascism." -- Walter Laqueur
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