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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Book SynopsisAs the site of the assassination that triggered World War I and the place where the term "ethnic cleansing" was invented during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, Bosnia has become a global symbol of nationalist conflict and ethnic division. But as Edin Hajdarpasic shows, formative contestations over the region began well before 1914, emerging...Trade ReviewScholars of the Balkans and beyond, have been waiting for an account like this for a long time—an account that is not afraid to ask difficult questions; approach them studiously, seriously, and in an interdisciplinary fashion; and answer them in a way that is supported by vast amount of evidence, grace, and honesty. * H-SAE *Elegantly written and full of unexpected (re)readings and provocative insights, this work towers over the already respectable stack of books on the cultural history of nationalism. What makes this work attractive is the wide culture and sophistication displayed, the ease with which Hajdarpasic moves from literary to philosophical allusions, the erudite interdisciplinary sweep, from anthropology to sociology and political science. This, more than the 'grounded theory,' really 'de-provincializes' its subject, and makes the work an important contribution not only to East European literature broadly, but to nationalism studies in general. * Austrian History Yearbook *A remarkably refreshing study that conveys clearly just how difficult it was for activists and governments not only to implant national consciousness in people largely indifferent to the idea, but, once they had done so, to guide its growth along lines that they could control.... Hajdarpasic's work makes an extremely valuable contribution to our understanding of the nineteenth-century Balkans and the roots of the fixation on nationalism evident in this area of history. It also should interest scholars in the wider field of nationalism studies, as it adopts an empirically grounded theoretical approach centered not only on the concept of the (br)other but on the open-ended nature of nationalism, which neither is controllable nor has any clear endpoint.... Hajdarpasic's work sets a new standard in modern Balkan history and should become a pillar of the field. * The American Historical Review *This is an impressive book, complex and challenging.... well-crafted, compellingly written, and extensively researched. It is probably the most important text to have been published on this subject in the English language. * Slavic Review *As a former Bosnian now living in the US, [Hajdarpasic] seeks a new paradigm—conceptually innovative and historical in its methodology—to obviate the vicissitudes of internecine nationalism in Bosnia.... Recommended. * Choice *A much-needed contribution that helps us understand not only contemporary Serbian and Croatian aspirations towards B-H, but also the roots of many notable artistic and cultural productions about the region.... An excellent historiographic work. * Slavic and East European Journal *Hajdarpasic's book is timely and relevant, not only in what it has to tell us about the binary nature of debates about national identity in the period treated by the book but also in southeastern Europe today.... The book also functions very well as a cultural history of Bosnia and Herzegovina and tackles an impressive number of literary and artistic works.... A very valuable and welcome addition to the English-language historiography of Bosnia and Herzegovina, specifically, and of the Balkans and nationalism studies more generally. * The Journal of Modern History *Hajdarpasic has written an insightfully nuanced, relevant and very much archival source- based monograph on transnational Serbian, Croatian and Bosnia-Herzegovina intellectual discourses during the long nineteenth century. His point of reference is an extraordinary spec- trum of nationalists – ethnographers, insurgents, teachers, academics, poets, politicians, and other actors often grouped together as intellectuals – who dreamed about and vied for the right to call Bosnia their own.... Hajdarpasic has contributed a valuable, exquisitely creative and in- sightful journey into the "South Slav problem" by southern European minds. * Jahrbcher fr Geschichte Osteuropas *Hajdarpasic's engagingly written book is a welcomed contribution to the studies of nationalism in general and late imperial Bosnia in particular. He successfully demonstrates how the writings of many national activists are studded with inconcsistencies, contradictions, half-knowledge, insults, irrational eruptions, expressions of hatred, calls for violent actions, and absurdities. * Südost-Forschungen *Hajdarpasic has produced a work throwing valuable light on nationalist thinking in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, one that will be a resource for all future scholars of the subject. * English Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Whose Bosnia?1. The Land of the People2. The Land of Suffering3. Nationalization and Its Discontents4. Year X, or 1914?5. Another ProblemEpilogue: Another BosniaNotes Index

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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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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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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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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

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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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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

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Book SynopsisThe Soviet Union was the first of Europe's multiethnic states to confront the rising tide of nationalism by systematically promoting the national consciousness of its ethnic minorities and establishing for them many of the institutional forms...Trade ReviewTerry Martin's Affirmative Action Empire is an exceptional and unique book, indispensable for any student of ethnic politics in the Soviet Union and its successor states, notably the Russian Federation. It is unique both in its comprehensive, in-depth treatment of the evolution of the Soviet nationalities policy from its inception until the end of the 1930s and in its reliance on Soviet archival sources that have become accessible only recently.... A major contribution to the history of the Soviet Union and to the study of ethnicity. -- Teresa Rakowska-Harmstone, Harvard University * Journal of Ukrainian Studies *The real virtue of Martin's book—and all of the best new Soviet scholarship—is not in the theoretical model it propounds, but in the power of its details, gleaned from previously unknown documents.... Martin is able, for the first time, to explain what it was that the Soviet Union's leaders actually intended their nationality policy to achieve.... Reading Martin's work,... one is struck, above all, by how much stranger the Soviet Union is beginning to seem, in retrospect, than we thought it was at the time, and how much more perverse.... Reading this history also gives us in the West an insight, however narrow, into the turmoil experienced in the non-Russian lands of the former Soviet Union during the last decade. Ukraine, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Georgia: these are now 'free' and independent states. Yet how real is this freedom? Might it not be another illusion, foisted upon them by a still powerful, and still much wealthier, Russian republic. * The New York Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisSince the fall of the Ceausescu regime, Romanian politics have been haunted by unresolved issues of the past. Irina Livezeanu examines a critical chapter in Eastern European history—the trajectory of the aggressive nationalism that dominated Romania...Trade ReviewIrina Livezeanu's excellent book on interwar Romania should be assigned as compulsory reading to all those who, in their understandable disdain for the Communist abuses of the past forty-five years, yearn for the 'good old days.'... Her masterful account... highlights once again how hateful a place East Central Europe was to the Jews, and how the pre-Communist past should be anything but extolled or emulated by contemporary intellectuals and politicians. -- Andrei S. Markovits * Austrian History Yearbook, 1997 *Only since the fall of Ceausescu have Romanians been able to attempt a reconstruction of their recent past and to interrogate it.... Dr. Livezeanu's book is one of great relevance for an understanding of nation-building in the contemporary world. It is the first major work in any language on the efforts by Romanian governments to harmonize the divergent groups in the newly-annexed terrorities and to consolidate the young state. -- Dennis Deletant * Slavonic Review *

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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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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.

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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

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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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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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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Book SynopsisIf the surface of Turkish politics has changed dramatically over the decades, the vocabulary for sorting these changes remains constant: Europe, Islam, minorities, the military, the founding father. This book explores the diverse mobilization and production of history and power in the primary figures that circulate in discourse about Turkey.

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates how national identity affects the dynamics of immigration. Revealing cross-national differences in how immigration and diversity are contended by different national governments, this book finds that how citizenship is constructed is the key variable defining the experience of Europe's immigrant populations.

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Book SynopsisDuring Poland’s century-long partition and in the interwar period of Poland’s reemergence as a state, Polish writers on both sides of the ocean shared a preoccupation with national identity.Trade Review“The bibliography, sources, notes, and index will be a treasure for scholars and researchers alike.” * Polish American Journal *“This is a pioneering work. Majewski found and made sense of a treasure trove of popular literature written in Polish for and about Polish immigrants to the US in the late 19th and early 20th century…” * Choice *Traitors and True Poles not only provides a valuable contribution to the study of Polish cultural and political history, but in a sensitive and respectful manner facilitates the understanding of American ethnic literature and multiculturalism, by adding the voice of the heretofore 'silent' Polish writers of the 'old immigration.'

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Book SynopsisDuring Poland’s century-long partition and in the interwar period of Poland’s reemergence as a state, Polish writers on both sides of the ocean shared a preoccupation with national identity.Trade Review“The bibliography, sources, notes, and index will be a treasure for scholars and researchers alike.” * Polish American Journal *“This is a pioneering work. Majewski found and made sense of a treasure trove of popular literature written in Polish for and about Polish immigrants to the US in the late 19th and early 20th century…” * Choice *Traitors and True Poles not only provides a valuable contribution to the study of Polish cultural and political history, but in a sensitive and respectful manner facilitates the understanding of American ethnic literature and multiculturalism, by adding the voice of the heretofore 'silent' Polish writers of the 'old immigration.'

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Book SynopsisThe collective memories of Nazism that developed in postwar Germany have helped define a new paradigm of memory politics. From Europe to South Africa and from Latin America to Iraq, scholars have studied the German case to learn how to overcome internal division and regain international recognition.InTrade Review“By juxtaposing his insightful readings of historiography with his analyses of mass media, Kansteiner makes even more powerfully clear how little impact historians have had on the public’s understanding of the Nazi past.... He does not tell us how to escape our marginal status; but throughout this important book, he forcefully reminds us of how marginal we are and how little attention we’ve paid to arenas, like television, where many more people learn about the past than in the books we write.” * Modern History *“Kansteiner has made an important contribution to the crowded and growing field of works that explore the way we look at the Federal Republic’s quest to find a way of remembering the perpetrators, victims, and bystanders of the twentieth century’s worst, and perhaps least comprehensible, crime.” * H-German *“Unlike other academic literatures that evolve only slowly, the study of working through the Holocaust in Germany has experienced continued change, now well into its third generation. Wulf Kansteiner’s new study provides an outstanding contribution to the literature.” * Holocaust and Genocide Stories *“An enlightening synthesis of the topic.” * Neue Politische Literatur *“Wulf Kansteiner's In Pursuit of German Memory is theoretically sophisticated and a model of empirical research. In a field too widely open to impressionistic essays, it represents an outstanding scholarly contribution.” * author of Nazi Germany and the Jews *“One of the most authoritative and inventive voices on the perpetually important issue of Germany’s relationship to the Nazi past. In Pursuit of German Memory... allows one to take full measure of Kansteiner’s impressive oeuvre and the methodological and thematic threads holding it together.”“This is a tour de force that is going to propel Professor Kansteiner into the front ranks of scholars in the fields of memory and postwar German history. It is empirically rich, cleverly organized, conceptually sophisticated, full of thoughtful and measured judgments and very well written. It pulls together a mass of material in a coherent and enlightening way. Many of the topics and controversies Kansteiner analyzes have been discussed before, but not so thoughtfully, and not within such a wide general and historical framework. We all have much to learn from the efforts of several generations of Germans to suppress, control and exploit the past for a wide mix of political and psychological reasons.” * author of The Tragic Vision of Politics *“Wulf Kansteiner’s In Pursuit of German Memory presents fascinating views on the various ways in which the catastrophic Nazi legacy has been handled in Germany after 1945. Combining originality with broad scope and in depth analysis, this is a major achievement.” * author of Constructing the Past *

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Book SynopsisThough often associated with foreigners and refugees, many Somalis have lived in Kenya for generations, in many cases since long before the founding of the country.Trade Review“From Weitzberg’s finely detailed discussion of several stages of the Somalis’ history in northern Kenya emerges the picture of a local mode of interaction across boundaries through kinship ties that have legitimacy and functionality of their own, notwithstanding the expectations and impositions of the different national governments…[i]t is a marvelous example of how historical research that combines archival material with fieldwork can shed light on contemporary events.” * H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online *“Particularly refreshing [is] how Weitzberg challenges scholarly conventions by using oral poetry to offer insights into how ‘rank-and-file nomadic people’ see and shape their identity as Somalis.…Her examination of Kenyan Somali identity urges us to reflect on what we think we know about citizenship and belonging more broadly. Her work is a much-needed contribution in this contemporary moment, when people in corridors of power are deciding who is a foreigner and who has rights to move freely in this world.” * The Washington Post online *“[Weitzberg’s] insights into competing definitions of belonging in the region are significant, and push us to critically reflect on the complex relationships between people and territorial boundaries.…A thought-provoking call for scholars to complicate their understandings of the nation state, belonging, ethnicity, and mobility, and productively reimagines epistemological approaches to oral sources.” * Canadian Journal of African Studies *“At its core, (We Do Not Have Borders) is a study of voices: of memory and storytelling, of fragments and contradictions…. These voices punctuate political histories and provide a lens into the everyday idioms, experiences, and reflections of Somalis in Kenya. Weitzberg’s use of poetry is particularly evocative and effective, highlighting the voices of women and temporal fluidity.” * American Historical Review *“[The] eye for a wider picture is a major strength of this book. However, perhaps its greatest strength is in the quality and sensitivity of its historiography…We Do Not Have Borders is a crucial book that demonstrates the central role of Somalis within Kenyan history, one that is highly relevant for contemporary debates on nations, borders, and belonging. I very much recommend it.” * African Studies Review *“At a time when Kenyan politics is ever more xenophobic, when thousands of Somalis are being rounded up, incarcerated, and screened as enemies of the state, this book could not be more timely. It is meaningful for all interested in the historical configuration of African politics, and should be read widely by historians, political scientists, and policymakers.”

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Book SynopsisIntends to assess the fate of the nation as a subject of disciplinary inquiry. This title investigates whether the nation remains central, adequate, or even possible as an analytical category for studying history. It includes twenty essays that exemplify cultural approaches to histories of nationalism and imperialism.Trade Review“After the Imperial Turn is an important collection of essays marking the 'coming of age' of 'new imperial history.’ One of its great strengths is its range—from the big picture to the local study, from the pedagogic to the institutional, from the British exemplar to a number of comparative perspectives, from the U.S. to the Caribbean and Hong Kong. This is an essential read for aspiring young historians.”—Catherine Hall, author of Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867“This is a timely intervention in the conversation on the nation sparked by critiques of the imperial foundations of modern nations and disciplines. It both assesses the fruits of the ‘imperial turn’ in scholarship and charts new directions on how to think and teach in the aftermath of the critiques of the nation. Incorporating perspectives from a range of disciplines and locations, the essays offer challenging reflections on the historicity of the present.”—Gyan Prakash, editor of After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial DisplacementsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: On the Inadequacy and the Indispensability of the Nation / Antoinette Burton 1 1. Nations, Empires, Disciplines: Thinking beyond the Boundaries Rethinking British Studies: Is There Life after Empire? / Susan D. Pennybacker 27 Transcending the Nation: A Global Imperial History? / Stuart Ward 44 Empire and “the Nation”: Institutional Practice, Pedagogy, and Nation in the Classroom / Heather Streets 57 We've Just Started Making National Histories, and You Want Us to Stop Already? / Ann Curthoys 70 Losing Our Way after the Imperial Turn: Charting Academic Uses of the Postcolonial / Terri A. Hasseler and Paula M. Krebs 90 Rereading the Archive and Opening up the Nation-State: Colonial Knowledge in South Asia (and Beyond) / Tony Ballantyne 102 2. Fortresses and Frontiers: Beyond and Within Unthinking French History: Colonial Studies beyond National Identity / Gary Wilder 125 Notes on a History of “Imperial Turns” in Modern Germany / Lora Wildenthal 144 After “Spain”: A Dialogue with Josep M. Fradera on Spanish Colonial Historiography / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara 157 Making the World Safe for American History / Robert Gregg 170 Asian American Global Discourses and the Problem of History / Augusto Espiritu 186 Race, Nationality, Mobility: A History of the Passport / Radhika Viyas Mongia 196 3. Reorienting the Nation: Logics of Empire, Colony, Globe Periodizing Johnson: Anticolonial Modernity as Crux and Critique / Clement Hawes 217 The Pudding and the Palace: Labor, Print Culture, and Imperial Britain in 1851 / Lara Kriegel 230 Double Meanings: Nation and Empire in the Edwardian Era / Ian Christopher Fletcher 246 The Fashionable World: Imagined Communities of Dress / Kristin Hoganson 260 The Romance of White Nations: Imperialism, Popular Culture, and National Histories / Hsu-Ming Teo 279 Britain's Finest: The Royal Hong Kong Police / Karen Fang 293 One-Way Traffic: George Lamming and the Portable Empire / John Plotz 308 The Whiteness of Civilization: The Transatlantic Crisis of White Supremacy and British Television Programming in the United States in the 1970s / Douglas M. Haynes 324 Selected Bibliography 343 About the Contributors 357 Index 361

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Book SynopsisDuring the first half of the twentieth century, Japanese immigrants entered Brazil by the tens of thousands. Examining these significant but rarely studied transnational movements and the experiences of Japanese-Brazilians, this book includes essays that rethink complex issues of ethnicity and national identity.Trade Review“Jeffrey Lesser’s achievement is that he and his colleagues have assembled the most comprehensive, multi-dimensional portrayal to date of the Japanese in Brazil as well as Brazilians of Japanese descent who have gone to work temporarily in Japan. Their research deftly illustrates how the multiple identities of immigrants and their descendants, as well as transnational labor migrants, can generate a plethora of responses as to where and what their real home actually is. As such, this book makes a seminal contribution to Asian, Latin American, and migration studies.”—Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, University of California, Riverside"Searching for Home Abroad makes a major contribution to Brazilian studies and to our empirical and theoretical understanding of transnational migration, liminality, and the construction of transnational identities. Its contributors—from history, sociology, anthropology, and ethnomusicology—provide us with a rich, nuanced, and very much needed understanding of early-twentieth-century Japanese immigration in Brazil, as well as the more recent Japanese-Brazilian emigration to Japan."—Leo Spitzer, author of Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from NazismTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Glossary xi Introduction: Looking for Home in All the Wrong Places / Jeffrey Lesser 1 Japanese, Brazilians, Nikkei: A Short History of Identity Building and Homemaking / Jeffrey Lesser 5 Speaking in the Tongue of Antipode: Japanese Brazilian Fantasy on the Origin of Language / Shuhei Hosokawa 21 Identity Transformations among Okinawans and Their Descendants in Brazil / Koichi Mori 47 Interlude: Circle K Rules / Karen Tei Yamashita 67 Searching for Home, Wealth, Pride, and "Class": Japanese Brazilians in the "Land of Yen" / Angelo Ishi 75 Urashima Taro's Ambiguating Practices: The Significance of Overseas Voting Rights for Elderly Japanese Migrants to Brazil / Joshua Hotaka Roth 103 Homeland-less Abroad: Transnational Liminality, Social Alienation, and Personal Malaise / Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda 121 Feminization of Japanese Brazilian Labor Migration to Japan / Keiko Yamanaka 163 Do Japanese Brazilians Exist? / Daniel T. Linger 201 Contributors 215 Index 217

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Book SynopsisA study of the effects of translation practices and historical writings in the Philippines on questions of nationalismTrade Review“Following up on Contracting Colonialism, Vicente L. Rafael studies the Philippine nationalists’ failed attempts to lay claim to Spanish, and the emergence of a hungry Tagalog meaning-machine eager to ‘host the foreign in the familiar.’ Rafael takes his readers on an astonishing trip through the Philippine cultural archive, from vernacular comedia, epic and novel, to underground newspapers, speeches, and the captured documents of secret societies, examining language as an unstoppable producer of social and political possibilities, including the possibility of the national. No one grasps better than Rafael the ambiguous agency of language in colonialism and decolonization.”—Mary Louise Pratt, New York University“In the tradition of James Siegel and Benedict Anderson, Vicente L. Rafael has given us a daring book about the ambivalent origins of the nation in the Philippines. It will be loved and emulated by students of nationalism, Southeast Asia, and comparative literary studies everywhere. There is good reason for this, for it is a beautiful book, a book of readings for lovers of literature, a book about literature for the media age. Mostly, however, it is a book about the foreignness in us all: an unassailable refutation of nationalist ideologies of purity.”—Rosalind C. Morris, author of In the Place of Origins: Modernity and Its Mediums in Northern Thailand“This latest work is one of erudition and unique insight. What is characteristic of Rafael’s prose is not only its eloquence but the meticulous unpacking of every snippet of source material, which is mined for its heuristic value, propelling the argument towards often unique lateral understandings. This is a work that would be of great value to Philippinists in particular and to those who are interested in the development of nationalist thought in Southeast Asia more broadly.” -- Julius J. Bautista * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Preface xv Introduction: Forgiving the Foreign 1 1. Translation and Telecommunication: Castilian as Lingua Franca 17 2. The Phantasm of Revenge: On Rizal's Fili 36 3. The Call of Death: On Rizal's Noli 4. The Colonial Uncanny: The Foreign Lodged in the Vernacular 96 5. Making the Vernacular Foreign: Tagalog as Castilian 119 6. Pity, Recognition, and the Risks of Literature in Balagtas 132 7. "Freedom = Death": Conjurings, Secrecy, Revolution 159 Afterword: Ghostly Voices: Kalayaan's Address 183 Notes 191 Works Cited 213 Index 223

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Book SynopsisThe Ustasha regime and its militias carried out a ruthless campaign of ethnic cleansing that killed an estimated half million Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies, and ended only with the defeat of the Axis powers in World War II. In Visions of Annihilation, Rory Yeomans analyses the Ustasha movement’s use of culture to appeal to radical nationalist sentiments and legitimize its genocidal policies.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Gary W. Gallagher and Elizabeth R. Varon | 1 Waiting for the Perfect Moment: Abby Kelley Foster and Stephen Foster’s Union War Frank J. Cirillo | 9 Elizabeth Keckly’s Union War Tamika Y. Nunley | 39 To Save the Union “in Behalf of Conservative Men”: Horatio Seymour and the Democratic Vision for War Jack Furniss | 63 The Union as It Was: Northern Catholics’ Conservative Unionism William B. Kurtz | 91 “Certain Ill-Considered Phrases”: Edward Bates and the Disunionist Dangers of Radical Rhetoric Jesse George-Nichol | 114 “Responsible to One Another and to God”: Why Francis Lieber Believed the Union War Must Remain a Just War D. H. Dilbeck | 143 Building a Union of Banks: Salmon P. Chase and the Creation of the National Banking System Michael T. Caires | 160 “To Transmit and Perpetuate the Fruits of This Victory”: Union Regimental Histories and the Great Rebellion in Immediate Retrospect Peter C. Luebke | 186 Notes 201 Bibliographic Note 241 List of Contributors 245 Index 247

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Gary W. Gallagher and Elizabeth R. Varon | 1 Waiting for the Perfect Moment: Abby Kelley Foster and Stephen Foster’s Union War Frank J. Cirillo | 9 Elizabeth Keckly’s Union War Tamika Y. Nunley | 39 To Save the Union “in Behalf of Conservative Men”: Horatio Seymour and the Democratic Vision for War Jack Furniss | 63 The Union as It Was: Northern Catholics’ Conservative Unionism William B. Kurtz | 91 “Certain Ill-Considered Phrases”: Edward Bates and the Disunionist Dangers of Radical Rhetoric Jesse George-Nichol | 114 “Responsible to One Another and to God”: Why Francis Lieber Believed the Union War Must Remain a Just War D. H. Dilbeck | 143 Building a Union of Banks: Salmon P. Chase and the Creation of the National Banking System Michael T. Caires | 160 “To Transmit and Perpetuate the Fruits of This Victory”: Union Regimental Histories and the Great Rebellion in Immediate Retrospect Peter C. Luebke | 186 Notes 201 Bibliographic Note 241 List of Contributors 245 Index 247

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