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Book SynopsisOften thought of as a thing of the past, nationalism remains surprisingly resilient in the postcolonial era, especially since the concepts of multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism have lost authority in recent years. The contributions assembled in Nationalism and the Postcolonial examine various forms, representations, and consequences of past and present nationalisms in languages, popular culture, and literature in or associated with Australia, Canada, England, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago Bringing together perspectives from linguistics, political science, cultural studies, and literary studies, the collection illustrates how postcolonial nationalism functions as a unifying mechanism of anti-colonial nation-building as well as a divisive force that can encourage discrimination and violence. Contributors: Natascha Bing, Prachi Gupta, Ralf Haekel, Kathrin Härtl, Idreas Khandy, Theresa Krampe, Lukas Lammers, Arhea Marshall, Hannah Pardey, Sina Schuhmaier, Hanna Teichler, Michael WestphalTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Notes on Contributors and Editors Nationalism and the Postcolonial: An Introduction   Sandra Dinter PART 1 The Languages of Nationalism 1 The Nationalist Ideology of Monolingualism in Postcolonial Theory   Michael Westphal 2 Talking Kenya*n  Dynamic Practices for a Heterogeneous Nation   Natascha Bing 3 The Hindi Language and the Imagination of the Indian Nation  Ramchandra Shukla’s Construction of Indian Civilization   Prachi Gupta PART 2 The Songs and Sounds of Nationalism 4 Singing the Postcolonial Independent in Trinbagonian Calypso   Arhea Marshall 5 Singing the Nation  The Condition of Englishness in the Lyrics of PJ Harvey and Kate Tempest   Sina Schuhmaier PART 3 Nationalisms in Postcolonial Popular Culture 6 Pop Culture  A Vehicle of State Nationalism in India   Idreas Khandy 7 Meet the ‘Holy Family’  From Multicultural Australia to Enforced Reconciliation in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia (2008)   Hanna Teichler 8 Intersections of Race, Sexuality, and National Identity in BioWare’s Mass Effect   Theresa Krampe PART 4 Nationalisms in Postcolonial Literatures 9 Blind Spots  Nationalism and the Photographic Gaze in Teju Cole’s Every Day Is for the Thief   Ralf Haekel 10 Emotional Nationalism in the New Nigerian Novel   Hannah Pardey 11 The British Empire and the ‘Laureate of Its Demise’  Postimperial Nostalgia in Jane Gardam’s Old Filth Trilogy   Lukas Lammers 12 ‘Bastardizing’ National Belonging  Derek Walcott and Joseph Conrad   Kathrin Härtl Index

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Book SynopsisNationalism and Revolution in Europe, 1763-1848 addresses enduring historiographical problems concerning the appearance of the first national movements in Europe and their role in the crises associated with the Age of Revolution. Considerable detail is supplied to the picture of Enlightenment era intellectual and cultural pursuits in which the nation was featured as both an object of theoretical interest and site of practice. In doing so, the work provides a major corrective to depictions of the period characteristic of earlier ventures -- including those by authors as notable as Hobsbawm, Gellner, and Anderson -- while offering an advance in narrative coherence by portraying how developments in the sphere of ideas influenced the terms of political debate in France and elsewhere in the years preceding the upheavals of 1789-1815. Subsequent chapters explore the composite nature of the revolutions which followed and the challenges of determining the relative capacity of the three chief sources of contemporary unrest -- constitutional, national, and social -- to inspire extra-legal challenges to the Restoration status quo.Trade Review"Nationalism and Revolution in Europe, 1763-1848 offers a fresh perspective on the rise and spread of nationalism in Europe and its relation to revolutionary movements. Adopting an intellectual history approach, Kostantaras shows that the phenomenon was more variegated, polyvalent, and multicentric then previously appreciated. This book is a must-read for all students of nationalism and revolution." - Dr. Thomas W. Gallant, Professor of Modern Greek History & Archaeology, University of California, San Diego "Especially geared towards those with cultural and linguistic interests, Dean Kostantaras has produced a learned and sophisticated examination, drawn from examples over nine decades of European history, about the origin of the concept of ‘the nation’." - James J. Sack, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Illinois at ChicagoTable of ContentsIntroduction Enlightenment-Era Representations of the Nation The Enlightenment Nation as a Site of Practice The French Revolution and Napoleonic Inheritance The Greek Revolution of 1821 Revolutions of 1830 Revolutions of 1848 Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBringing together sources from many countries and many centuries, this study critically analyses the growth of national thought and of nationalism — from medieval ethnic prejudice to the Romantic belief in a nation’s ‘soul’. The belief and ideology of the nation’s cultural individuality emerged from a Europe-wide exchange of ideas, often articulated in literature and belles lettres. In the last two centuries, these ideas have transformed the map of Europe and the relations between people and government. In tracing the modern European nation-state, cross-nationally and historically, as the outcome of a cultural self-invention, Leerssen also provides a surprising perspective on Europe’s contemporary identity politics. National Thought in Europe has been brought up to date in this new, third edition.Trade Review"Joep Leerssen has written a wide-ranging, lucid, concise and elegant essay that replaces the many European nationalisms in their cultural contexts. It should appeal to students and tell their teachers something new as well." Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University|"This book should be studied by all working in the field of nationalism. Leerssen is a scholar of the first rank, and I doubt if there is any serious scholar of nationalism who will fail to profit from this treasure house of erudition and reflection. The book is itself a delight to read." John Hutchinson, London School of Economics, in Nations and NationalismTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword to the Third Edition Preface Introduction Source Traditions Wilderness, Exoticism and the State’s Order: Medieval Views The Renaissance and Democratic Primitivism Anthropology and the Nation: Character and Climate in the Seventeenth Century Politics and the Nation: Patriotism and Democracy in Enlightenment Thought The Nation Empowered: Popular Sovereignty and National Unity in the French Revolution Culture and the Nation: Literature, the Public Sphere and Anti-French Relativism The Politics of National Identity Napoleon and the Rise of Political Romanticism Napoleon and the Rise of National Historicism Restoration and the Nation-State Nationalism as State Centralism Nationalism as Unification Nationalism as Separatism Identity Rampant The Nation’s Sources, the State’s Borders: Culture into Geopolitics The Nationalization of Culture Ethnic Nationalism and Racism Versailles and after Aftermath and Conclusions: Twentieth-Century Issues Taming National Sovereignty: Transnationalism and Internationalism Postnationalism Neonationalism: After the Cold War Beyond the Nation-State? Appendices Languages, Alphabets, Dialects and Language Politics Source References Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe essays in Nationalizing Empires want to overcome the strict dichotomy between empire and nation state that has dominated historiography for decades. Their main focus is nation-building in the imperial core. The authors in the volume subscribe to the concept that the nineteenth century was not the age of nation-states: rather it has to be described as the age of empires and nationalism. A number of historical examples have been identified where nation building projects in the imperial metropolis aimed at the preservation and extension of empires rather than at their dissolution or the transformation of entire empires into nation states. Such observations have until recently largely escaped theoretical reflection. The collection of essays written by outstanding scholars of the field cover a wide range of topics and case studies both from western and from eastern European history with a focus on the 19th and early 20th centuries.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: Building Nations In and With Empires - a Re-assessment 'A World Empire, Sea-Girt' The British Empire, State and Nations, 1780-1914 THE FIRST NAPOLEONIC EMPIRE, 1799-1815 Colonialism and Nation-Building in Modern France Nation-Building and Regional Integration: The Case of the Spanish Empire (1700-1914) Building the Nation Among Visions of German Empire The Romanov Empire and the Russian Nation The Habsburg Monarchy (1804 - 1918) Imperial Cohesion, Nation-Building and Regional Integration Modernization, Imperial Nationalism, and the Ethnicization of Confessional Identity in the Late Ottoman Empire Nation-Building and Nationalism in the Oldenburg Empire Empire, city, nation: Venice's imperial past and the 'making of Italians' from unification to fascism Comments European Old Regime and the Imperial Question: A Modernist View at a Contemporary Question. Empires and their Core territories on the Eve of 1914: A Comment "Imperial Nationalism" as Challenge for the Study of Nationalizing Imperial Armies. A Comparative and Transnational Study of Three Empires Multi-Ethnic Empires and Nation-Building: Comparative Perspectives on the late Nineteenth Century and the First World War

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first attempt to bridge the divide between studies addressing “economic nationalism” as a deliberate ideology and movement of economic “nation-building,” and the literature concerned with more diffuse expressions of economic “nationness” – from national economic symbols and memories to the “banal” world of product advertising. The editors draw attention to the importance of economic issues for the study of nations and nationalism, and the relative neglect of this relationship in contemporary scholarship. The authors of the essays come from disciplines as diverse as economic and cultural history, political science, business studies, as well as sociology and anthropology. Their chapters address the nationalism-economy nexus in a variety of realms, including trade, foreign investment, and national control over resources, as well as consumption, migration, and welfare state policies. Some of the case studies have a historical focus on nation-building in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, while others are concerned with contemporary developments. Several contributions provide in-depth analyses of single cases while others are comparative. The geographical focus of the contributions vary widely, although most deal with European countries.Trade Review"Stefan Berger and Thomas Fetzer have assembled a team of a dozen authors to tackle the question, through a mixture of literature reviews and case studies. They rightly argue that nationalism scholars tend to focus on state power and cultural representation at the expense of economics, while economists in turn largely overlook the question of nationalism. One of the central arguments in the book is that economic nationalism should be understood as a broader phenomenon than mere protectionism—the creation of tariff and other barriers to deter foreign trade and investment." -- Peter Rutland * H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences *Table of ContentsCONTENTS 1. Introduction by Stefan Berger and Thomas Fetzer PART I: Surveys 2. Historians, Nationalism Studies, and the Economy by Stefan Berger 3. Nationalism in Political Economy Scholarship by Thomas Fetzer PART II: Case Studies 4. Visions of Europe: European Integration and its Origins in Nineteenth Century Economic Thinking about Nation-Building by Harold James 5. Theoretical and Historical Reflections on Economic Nationalism in Germany and the United States in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Andreas Etges 6. Land Regimes in Nation-Building Processes and Nation-States: The Case of Israel in Comparative Perspective by Jacob Metzer 7. Disparities and Economic Nationhood in Yugoslavia by Žarko Lazarević 8. Pro-Urban Welfare in an Agricultural Country? Economic Nationalism and Welfare Regime Problems of Fit: Lessons from Interwar Romania by Sergiu Delcea 9. Nationalizing Consumption: Products, Brands, and Nations by Oliver Kühschelm 10. Nation Branding and Nationalism by Mads Mordhorst 11. National Interests and Foreign Direct Investment in East-Central Europe after 1989 by Vera Šćepanović 12. Economic Nationhood and International Migration: The Case of China by Pál Nyíri PART III: Beyond the Nation? 13. Embedding the Social Question into International Order: Economic Thought and the Origins of Neoliberalism in the 1930s by Hagen Schulz-Forberg 14. Economic Europeanness by Thomas Fetzer

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Book SynopsisThe authors of this book approach the emergence and endurance of the populist nationalism in post-socialist Eastern Europe, with special emphasis on Hungary. They attempt to understand the reasons behind public discourses that increasingly reframe politics in terms of nationhood and nationalism. Overall, the volume attempts to explain how the new nationalism is rooted in recent political, economic and social processes. The contributors focus on two motifs in public discourse: shift and legacy. Some focus on shifts in public law and shifts in political ethno-nationalism through the lens of constitutional law, while others explain the social and political roots of these shifts. Others discuss the effects of legacy in memory and culture and suggest that both shift and legacy combine to produce the new era of identity politics. Legal experts emphasize that the new Fundamental Law of Hungary is radically different from all previous Hungarian constitutions, and clearly reflects a redefinition of the Hungarian state itself. The authors further examine the role of developments in the fields of sociology and political science that contribute to the kind of politics in which identity is at the fore.Trade Review"The book makes a solid contribution both to the fields of Hungarian politics and national populism. Focusing on just three topics, it offers an in-depth account of the transformation of Hungarian politics during the last decade, combining research on constitutional law with political science. We need more works like this to help us understand the current transformation in postcommunist countries, as well as the effect of the transformation on the shift of views regarding liberal democracy. Applying political science approaches to the study of constitutional law offers new material to understand how populist leaders manipulate institutions and how this can affect both national minorities and the quality of democracy." https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2021.1977036 -- George Kordas * Europe-Asia Studies *Table of ContentsContents Margit Feischmidt, Balázs Majtényi: Introduction Kriszta Kovács: Constitutional Continuity Disrupted Zsolt Körtvélyesi: Continuity, Discontinuity and Constitution-Making: A Comparative Account Nóra Chronowski: A Nation Torn Apart by its Constitution? Nationality and Ethnicity in the Context of the Hungarian Fundamental Law Chris Moreh: Towards an illiberal extraterritorial political community? Hungary’s `Simplified Naturalisation’ and its ramifications Balázs Majtényi, György Majtényi: Shift in the Hungarian Roma policy after 2010 Margit Feischmidt: New forms of Nationalism in and the Discursive Construction of the Gypsy Other Virág Molnár: Civil Society and the Right-wing Radicalization of the Public Sphere in Hungary Eszter Bartha, András Tóth: Why Elite Workers' Attracted by the Radical Right? The Impact of Deeply Ingrained Nationalism and Perceptions of Exploitations Andrea Szabó, Dániel Oross, Dániel Róna: Divergent Understandings of Politics and Motivations for Civic Participation among the Politically Active Students

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Book SynopsisThe authors of this book retell the political and economic history of East-Central Europe, the post-communist Balkans, and the Baltic states and speculate about their future from the vantage point of three competing forces operating in the region: territorial imperialism, globalization, and nationalism. Exposed to imperial aspirations, the geographic area from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea has in the past 150 years been subject to alternating waves of globalization and nationalism. The nineteenth century Eastern European empires were open to forces of economic globalization, but all collapsed at the end of World War One. Emerging nation-states embraced the logic of Western-led globalization but were subjugated by Nazi and Soviet empires, which pursued policies of economic autarchy. The demise of the Soviet empire marked the revival of pre-1939 nation-states and the re-entry of forces of liberalism and globalization into the region, with multiple crises of economic transition, ethnic militancy, new forms of authoritarianism, and external security threats. By 2010 negative, nationalist-populist reactions against crises that globalization brought to Eastern Europe became the dominant political trend. The analysis involves the consideration about the very contemporary factors of Brexit and COVID, as well as Russia’s and China’s influences, and their effects on Eastern Europe.Table of Contents1 Introduction James W. Peterson and Jacek Lubecki Nationalism, Imperialism, and Globalization in the Shaping of Eastern Europe Background of Theories 2 Dialectics of Globalization: Empires and Nationalism Jacek Lubecki Control by Empires Prior to WW I, 1815–1914 Emergence of Nation-States after 1918 Nazi/Fascist Empire, 1930s and 1940s Communist Empire, 1945–89 Post-communist Expressions of Nationalism after 1989 3 Liberalism and Anti-Liberalism Jacek Lubecki The Spread of Liberalism and Its Discontentment Successes of Liberalism and Persistence of Anti-liberalism Conclusion: Eastern Europe between Nationalism and Globalization 4 Ethnic Challenges from Within and Without James W. Peterson Ethnic Warfare and Conflict within the States Migratory Pressures from the External Environment Theoretical Conclusion 5 Domestic and Global Security Challenges James W. Peterson Terrorist Threats inside the State Russian Imperial Challenges after Crimea Takeover, 2014 Theoretical Conclusion 6 The Cloud of COVID-19 as a Global Pressure on the Region and Its Individual States, 2020 and After James W. Peterson Key Historical Differences Impact of COVID-19 on Democratic Ratings Selected Case Studies of Political and Administrative Decisions during the 2020–22 Virus Election Outcomes during the Crisis Years Theoretical Conclusion 7 Conclusion: Imperialism, Globalization, and Nationalism in Eastern Europe in the Twenty-First Century James W. Peterson Imperialism Globalization Nationalism Theoretical Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRejecting the cliché about “weak identity and underdeveloped nationalism,” Bekus argues for the co-existence of two parallel concepts of Belarusianness—the official and the alternative one—which mirrors the current state of the Belarusian people more accurately and allows for a different interpretation of the interconnection between the democratization and nationalization of Belarusian society. The book describes how the ethno-symbolic nation of the Belarusian nationalists, based on the cultural capital of the Golden Age of the Belarusian past (17th century) competes with the “nation” institutionalized and reified by the numerous civic rituals and social practices under the auspices of the actual Belarusian state. Comparing the two concepts not only provides understanding of the logic that dominates Belarusian society’s self-description models, but also enables us to evaluate the chances of alternative Belarusianness to win this unequal struggle over identity. Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Nation in Theory Chapter 1 Nation-Formation Strategies in Contemporary Nation-Studies Chapter 2 State and Nation Chapter 3 Nationalism, Capitalism, Liberalism: The East European Perspective Chapter 4 Nationalism and Socialism: The Soviet Case Part II. The Rise and Development of the Belarusian National Idea Chapter 5 The First Belarusian Nationalist Movement: Between National and Class Interests Chapter 6 Byelorussian Republic within the Soviet State Chapter 7 Post-Soviet Conditions for Independence Part III. Belarusian Post-Communism Chapter 8 The Election of the First Belarusian President as a Mirror of Belarusian Preferences Chapter 9 “Labels” of the Belarusian Regime Chapter 10 “Triple Transformation” and Belarus Chapter 11 Prerequisites of Democratization and Authoritarianism in Belarus Part IV. Arguments and Paradoxes of Weak Belarusian Identity Chapter 12 Belarus as an Example of National and Democratic Failure Chapter 13 The Russian Factor in Belarusian Self-Perception Chapter 14 The Paradox of “National Pride” Chapter 15 Paradoxes of Political and Linguistic Russification Chapter 16 Lack of Religious Basis for National Unity Part V. The Struggle over Identity Chapter 17 Two Ideas of “Belarusianness” in Place of “Sole” National Idea Chapter 18 Belarusian-Specific Nature of the Public Sphere: Invisible Wall Chapter 19 Belarusian Tradition: The Alternative and Official Historical Narrations Chapter 20 Political Discourses of Alternative Belarusianness Chapter 21 National Ideology of the Belarusian State as a Political Articulation of Official Belarusianness Part VI. Cultural Manifestation versus Social Reification Chapter 22 Two Belarusian Approaches to the Politics of Identity Chapter 23 “The Belarusian Globe”: An Encyclopedia of What Existed before Communism Chapter 24 Belarusian National Film Misterium Occupation: Distancing Themselves from Soviets and Russians Chapter 25 Free Theater: Alternative Belarusianness on the Stage Chapter 26 Independent Rock Music: Critical Reflection and Protest Chapter 27 Medieval Reenactors: A Manifestation of Belarus’s European History Chapter 28 The Official Politics of Identity: Social Reification Strategy Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFifty-one texts illustrate the evolution of modernism in Eastern Europe. Essays, articles, poems, or excerpts from longer works offer new opportunities of possible comparisons of the respective national cultures. The volume focuses on the literary and scientific attempts at squaring the circle of individual and collective identities. Often outspokenly critical of the romantic episteme, these texts reflect a more sophisticated and critical stance than in the preceding periods. At the same time, rather than representing a complete rupture, they often continue and confirm the romantic identity narratives, albeit with "other means". The volume also presents the ways national minorities sought to legitimize their existence with reference to their cultural and institutional peculiarity.Table of ContentsEditorial Note Chapter I. Cultural modernization: Institutionalization of “national sciences” Chapter II. The “Critical turns”: Subverting the Romantic narratives Chapter III. Literary representations of the “national character” Chapter IV. Aesthetic modernism and collective identities Chapter V. Regionalism, autonomism and the minority identity-building narratives

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Book SynopsisBook has a two-fold ambition: to excavate the hitherto unknown eugenic movements in Central and Southeast Europe and to explain their relationship with racism, nationalism and anti-Semitism.Trade Review"These essays make the convincing argument that race was more important in Eastern Europe, compared with eugenics in other parts of the world, and that the region's political leaders believed that racial nationalism was the key to creating national identity, thus their support to the science of better breeding. Summing up: recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above." * Choice *"The editors tell us that in Central and Eastern Europe, eugenics and national racism were the cornerstones used in building the nation and the state. Far from giving in to the siren call of the forces of reaction, this 'parti de la nature', as Claude Lévi-Strauss calls it, brought together two modern and highly toxic substances: eugenics and ultra nationalism." * Medical History *"Filled with new information and original ideas and offering intriguing incentives for further research, this well-edited volume is not only a remarkable edition to the literature on European eugenics but provides invaluable insights into the broader currents of intellectual life in central and southeast Europe." * Slavic Review *"Bisher kaum bekannt war die Entwicklung der Eugenik in den ostmitteleuropäischen Staaten. Marius Turda und Paul J. Weindling haben sich dieses weissen Flecks angenommen und bieten mit ihrem Sammelband einen umfangreichen Überblick zu verschiedenen Aspekten und Tendenzen in den Ländern von Österreich bis Rumänien und von Estland bis nach Bulgarien. Während die Forschung zur Eugenik meist im Bereich der Medizinalgeschichte oder im Kontext des Nationalsozialismus abgehandelt wird, gehen die Autoren des Buches der Frage in einem allgemeinhistorischen Zusammenhang nach: Wie beeinflusste eugenisches Denken die Ausformung der Nationalismen in den jungen Staaten des 'Cordon sanitaire' oder konstituierte ihn gar? Der Sammelband is nicht nur ein aufschlussreiches Kompendium, er wird ein Standardwerk zum Thema Eugenik in Ostmitteleuropa bleiben." * Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas *"The Central European University Press is to be congratulated for publishing two outstanding scholarly analyses of the root causes of anti-Roma racism, which is rapidly taking center stage in the drama of the East European transition process. The books (Blood and Homeland and The Roma in Romanian History) fill a large gap in urgently needed knowledge. They may well become essential research tools for politicians and social and educational planning departments that are approaching the challenge of European integration. The books will be useful also for university courses in history, sociology, and politics, as well as Holocaust and genocide studies." * Transitions Online *Table of ContentsIntroduction Marius Turda and Paul Weindling: Eugenics, Race and Nation in Central and Southeast Europe, 1900-1940 Part I. Ethnography and Racial Anthropology Egbert Klautke: German “Race Psychology” and Its Implementation in Central Europe: Egon von Eickstedt and Rudolf Hippius Margit Berner: From “Prisoners of War Studies” to Proof of Paternity: Racial Anthropologists and the Measuring of “Others” in Austria Maria Teschler-Nicola: “Volksdeutsche” and Racial Anthropology in Interwar Vienna: The “Marienfeld Project” Rory Yeomans, Of Yugoslav Barbarians and Croatian Gentlemen Scholars: Nationalist Ideology and Racial Anthropology in Interwar Yugoslavia Sevasti Trubeta: Anthropological Discourse and Eugenics in Interwar Greece Part II. Eugenics and Racial Hygiene in National Contexts Michal Simunek, Between “Eugenics” and “Racial Hygiene”: Plans for the Regulation of Human Heredity in the Czech Lands, 1900-1925 Magdalena Gavin, Progressivism and Eugenic Thinking in Poland, 1905-1939 Marius Turda, “Faj egészségtana” or “Eugenika”? The First Debates on Eugenics in Hungary, 1910-1918 Christian Promitzer, Taking Care of the National Body: Eugenic Visions in Interwar Bulgaria, 1905-1940 Ken Kalling, The Self Perception of A Small Nation: The Reception of Eugenics in Interwar Estonia Paul J. Weindling, Central Europe Confronts German Racial Hygiene: Friedrich Hertz, Hugo Iltis and Ignaz Zollschan as Critics of Racial Hygiene Part III. Religion, Public Health and Population Policies Kamila Uzarczyk, “Moses als Eugeniker”? The Reception of Eugenic Ideas in Jewish Medical Circles in Interwar Poland Monica Löscher: Eugenics and the Catholic Church in Interwar Austria Sabine Schleiermacher, Eugenics and Protestantism: Public Health, Population Policy and Protestant Welfare Organisations during the Weimar Republic Herwig Czech, From Welfare to Selection: Vienna’s Public Health Office and the Implementation of Racial Hygiene Politics under the Nazi Regime Maria Bucur, Fallen Women and Necessary Evils: Eugenic Representations of Prostitution in Interwar Romania Part IV. Anti-Semitism, Nationalism and Biopolitics Răzvan Pârâianu, Culturalist Nationalism and Anti-Semitism in Fin-de-Siècle Romania Attila Pók, The Politics of Hatred: Scapegoating in Interwar Hungary Aristotle Kallis, Racialist Politics and Bio-Medical Totalitarianism in Interwar Europe Roger Griffin, Tunnel Visions and Mysterious Trees: Modernist Projects of National and Racial Regeneration, 1880-1939

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Book SynopsisThe major dilemma this volume addresses is the function of national identity in a modern society, for despite the trend towards globalization, the world continues to be riddled with national conflict. Kloskowska begins by looking at the controversy between two competing concepts of the origin of the nation - political and ethnic, and examines in particular the characteristics of ethnic differences on personal identity and the appropriation of national culture. Her theories are based upon autobiographies by individuals belonging to various national minorities in Poland and other areas where ethnic borders are blurred. The group studied includes mostly young intellectuals from the Ukraine, Belaruss and Silesian-Germans. She examines the national attitudes of the various countries the ethnic minorities have been forced to live with. In conclusion, Kloskowska takes the view that national cultures are either `open' or `closed' and stresses the importance of participating in more than one cultural medium.Trade Review"The book addresses important questions and provides much-needed empirical materials." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsPart 1 Theory, history and anthropology of a nation; controversies around the concept of nation; historical perspective; `Patria' - fatherland. Part 2 The culturalistic sociological perpective; complexity and diversity of national symbolic communities; national stereotypes and the concept of national identity; personal identity as related to national identification and the appropriation of national culture; empirical materials. Part 3 National conversions; national conversion as a borderland phenomenon; Polish conversion of A.V. Winkler; German conversions. Part 4 National minorities; variants of Ukrainity; problem of Belarus nationality; Silesian national dilemmas; old and young generation; open and closed national attitudes in borderland situation. Part 5 Centre of national culture; portrait of the wartime generation; young Poles in the period of democratic breakthrough; young Poles facing others. Part 6 Epilogue on emigration; scales of Polishness; negation of Polishness; Polish identification. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis is a historical study, taking as its narrative focus the life, death and posthumous fate of Vasil Levski (1837-1873), arguably the major and only uncontested hero of the Bulgarian national pantheon. The main title refers to the 'thick description' of the reburial controversy during the final phase of communist Bulgaria, which centered on the search for Levski's bones. The book gives a specific understanding also of the relationship between nationalism and religion in the post-communist period, by analyzing the recent canonization of Levski. The processes described, although with a chronological depth of almost two centuries, are still very much in the making, and the living archive expands not only in size but with the constant addition of surprising new forms they take.At another level, the book engages in a variety of general theoretical questions. It offers insights into the problems of history and memory: the question of public, social or collective memory; the nature of national memory in comparison to other types of memory; the variability of memory over time and social space; alternative memories; and, memory's techniques like commemorations, the mechanism of creating and transmitting memory.Trade Review"An enjoyable but daunting volume; Maria Todorova entertains with straightforward prose while she tackles a subject that is in its breadth and depth unusually complex. Todorova's book arrives at a promising moment in the evolution of nationalism studies. The author engages several theoretical debates, and in doing so revives the quest for impartiality in academic research." * American Historical Review *"A complex, clever, and compelling book. It is an excellent guide to a major nineteenth-century revolutionary figure, and it provides a fascinating study in the political exploitation and manipulation of legend and myth." * Journal of Modern History *"This book is many things, but foremost it is a detailed analysis of the social and political processes that crafted a nineteenth-century Bulgarian revolutionary, Vasil Levski, into the most admired and revered hero in Bulgaria. Although the current representation of his revolutionary actions would suggest that this was inevitable, Maria Todorova shows that this was not necessarily the case. His ascendancy to the pinnacle of Bulgaria’s heroic pantheon was a result of continual contestation and debate from his death in 1873 through the 1920s. As his preeminence was consolidated, different groups with opposing political philosophies all tapped into his celebrity to advance their platforms, further enhancing his aura and elevating him toward saintly status. This is an impressive piece of scholarship demonstrating meticulous historical research with both primary and secondary sources combined with engaging personal expositions based on the author’s close connection to some of the major protagonists and events. It is an important contribution to scholarship in both method and content. It is also an important contribution to the literature on nationalism generally, particularly the growing interest in varieties of nationalisms. The book thus speaks to multiple disciplines, including history, political science, sociology, and anthropology. It is also augmented by a lovely collection of color prints that further enhance its readability. The result is an outstanding book that combines the best of the historian’s craft with novel innovations" * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Bones of Contention or Professionals, Dilettantes, and Who Owns History 1.1 A A"social dramaA" at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 1.2 From breach to crisis 1.3 No redress, or where are Levski's bones? 1.4 A socialist public sphere? 1.5 A"ProfessionalsA" and A"dilettantesA" 1.6 Recognizing the schism or what is worse: bad professionals or good nationalists? Part II. The Apostle of Freedom or What Makes a Hero? 2.1 What is a hero and are heroes born? 2.2 The A"makingA" of Vasil Levski 2.3 A banner for all causes: appropriating the hero 2.4 Contesting the hero 2.5 The literary and visual hypostases of the hero 2.6 From hero for all to dissident and back Part III. The National Hero as Secular Saint: The Canonization of Levski 3.1 The split or how a bicephalous organism functions 3.2 The canonization and its implications 3.3 Levski and the Bulgarian church: memory and narration 3.4 The orchestration of a grass-roots cultus 3.5 Commemoration, ritual and the sacred 3.6 Heroes and saints: the dialectics of reincarnation Conclusion; Appendices; Index

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Book SynopsisThis work analyzes the processes of nation-building in nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Southeastern Europe. A product of transnational comparative teamwork, this collection represents a coordinated interpretation based on ten varied academic cultures and traditions. The originality of the approach lies in a combination of three factors: seeing nation-building as a process that is to a large extent driven by intellectuals and writers, rather than just a side effect of infrastructural modernization processes; looking at the regional, cross-border ramifications of these processes (rather than in a rigid single-country-by-country perspective); and, looking at the autonomous role of intellectuals in these areas, rather than just seeing Southeastern Europe as an appendix to Europe-at-large, passively undergoing European influences.The essays explore the political instrumentalization of the concepts of folk, people and ethnos in Southeastern Europe in the 'long 19th century' by mapping the discursive and institutional itineraries through which this set of notions became a focal point of cultural and political thought in various national contexts; a process that coincided with the emergence of political modernity.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Ethnos and Citizens: Versions of Cultural-Political Construction of Identity 1.1 Reconciliation of the Spirits and Fusion of the Interests: A"OttomanismA" as an Identity Politics 1.2 The People Incorporated: Constructions of the Nation in Transylvanian Romanian Liberalism, 1838-1848 1.3 A"We, the MacedoniansA": The Paths of Macedonian Supra-Nationalism (1878-1912) 1.4 History and Character: Visions of National Peculiarity in the Romanian Political Discourse of the Nineteenth-Century Part II. Nationalization of Sciences and the Definitions of the Folk 2.1 Barbarians, Civilized People and Bulgarians: Definition of Identity in Textbooks and the Press (1830-1878) 2.2 Narrating 'the People' and 'Disciplining' the Folk: the Constitution of the Hungarian Ethnographic Discipline and the Touristic Movements (1870-1900) 2.3 Who are the Bulgarians? A"Race,A" Science and Politics in Fin-de-Siecle Bulgaria 2.4 Imagining of National Spaces in Interwar Romania. The Emergence of Geopolitics Part III. The Canon-Builders 3.1 Jovan Jovanović Zmaj and the Serbian Identity between Poetry and History 3.2 A"OttomanA" or A"WesternA": Two Version of Albanianness at the Turn of the 19th Century 3.3 A Contested Nation-Builder: Şemseddin Sami FrashA"ri (1850-1904) and the Construction of Albanian and Turkish Nations

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Book SynopsisThis title argues for an original, unorthodox conception of the relationship between globalization and contemporary nationalism. While the prevailing view holds that nationalism and globalization are clashing forces of opposition, Sabanadze establishes that these forces tend to become allied. Sabanadze acknowledges that nationalism does react against rising globalization and represents a form of resistance against globalizing influences, but the Basque and Georgian cases prove that globalization and nationalism can be complementary rather than contradictory tendencies. Nationalists have often served as promoters of globalization, seeking out globalizing influences and engaging with global actors out of their very nationalist interests. In the case of both Georgia and the Basque Country, there is little evidence to suggest the existence of any strong, politically organized nationalist opposition to globalization. On the contrary, a predominant relationship between globalization and nationalism appears to be that of complementarity and mutual support, where nationalism often promotes rather than resists globalization. This work discusses why, on a broader scale, different forms of nationalism develop differing attitudes towards globalization and engage in different relationships.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Nationalism Resurgent: Central Paradox of the Global Era? Chapter 3 Globalization Hypothesis and Its Fallacies Chapter 4 Globalization and Georgian Nationalism Chapter 5 Globalization and Basque Nationalism Chapter 6 Globalization and Nationalism: the Relationship Revisited Bibliography

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Book SynopsisRejecting the cliche about weak identity and underdeveloped nationalism, Bekus argues for the co-existence of two parallel concepts of Belarusianness - the official and the alternative one - which mirrors the current state of the Belarusian people more accurately and allows for a different interpretation of the interconnection between the democratization and nationalization of Belarusian society. The book describes how the ethno-symbolic nation of the Belarusian nationalists, based on the cultural capital of the Golden Age of the Belarusian past (17th century) competes with the nation - institutionalized and reified by the numerous civic rituals and social practices under the auspices of the actual Belarusian state. Comparing the two concepts not only provides understanding of the logic that dominates Belarusian society's self-description models, but also enables us to evaluate the chances of alternative Belarusianness to win this unequal struggle over identity.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Nation in Theory 1. Nation-Formation Strategies in Contemporary Nation-Studies 2. State and Nation 3. Nationalism, Capitalism, Liberalism: The East European Perspective 4. Nationalism and Socialism: The Soviet Case Part II. The Rise and Development of the Belarusian National Idea 5. The First Belarusian Nationalist Movement: Between National and Class Interests 6. Byelorussian Republic within the Soviet State 7. Post-Soviet Conditions for Independence Part III. Belarusian Post-Communism 8 The Election of the First Belarusian President as a Mirror of Belarusian Preferences 9. LabelsA" of the Belarusian Regime 10. Triple TransformationA" and Belarus 11. Prerequisites of Democratization and Authoritarianism in Belarus Part IV. Arguments and Paradoxes of Weak Belarusian Identity 12. Belarus as an Example of National and Democratic Failure 13. The Russian Factor in Belarusian Self-Perception 14. The Paradox of National PrideA" 15. Paradoxes of Political and Linguistic Russification 16. Lack of Religious Basis for National Unity Part V. The Struggle over Identity 17. Two Ideas of BelarusiannessA" in Place of SoleA" National Idea 18. Belarusian-Specific Nature of the Public Sphere: Invisible Wall 19. Belarusian Tradition: The Alternative and Official Historical Narrations 20. Political Discourses of Alternative Belarusianness 21. National Ideology of the Belarusian State as a Political Articulation of Official Belarusianness Part VI. Cultural Manifestation versus Social Reification 22. Two Belarusian Approaches to the Politics of Identity 23. The Belarusian GlobeA": An Encyclopedia of What Existed before Communism 24. Belarusian National Movie Misterium Occupation: Distancing Themselves from Soviets and Russians 25. Free Theater: Alternative Belarusianness on the Stage 26. Independent Rock Music: Critical Reflection and Protest 27. Medieval Reenactors: A Manifestation of Belarus's European History 28. The Official Politics of Identity: Social Reification Strategy Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis anthology critically re-examines and re-articulates the discursive boundary that binds the region called East Asia in order to produce Trans-Pacific Studies. Recognizing that the creation of regional boundaries depends on a new configuration of both inter- and intra-national power relations and the ideological constructs that generate historical, ideological, and cultural effects, this volume proposes that the term “trans-Pacific” be mobilized to complicate the phrase “East Asian” as the boundary of academic discipline and socio-cultural discourse. The anthology also examines the historical conditions under which “East Asia” was constructed as an area and the trans-Pacific directives that nurtured the sense of nationality in each component nation of East Asia.With the contribution of: Sun Ge (The Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences); Soyoung Kim (Korean National University of Arts); Hyoduk Lee (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies); Jie-Hyun Lim (Hanyang University); Lisa Lowe (University of California); Tessa Morris-Suzuki (The Australian National University); Naoki Sakai (Cornell University), Yuko Shibata (Saint John's University); Annmaria Shimabuku (University of California); Ikuo Shinjou (University of the Ryukyus); Hyon Joo Yoo (University of Vermont).Table of ContentsIntroduction; National Ontology and the New Asian Immigrant in US Empire after September 11; Trans-Pacific Studies and US - Japan Complicity; Re-Imagining the Space of East Asia - from Empire to Cold War and Beyond; The Political Formation of the Homoerotics and the Cold War: Battle of the Gazes at and from Okinawa; Transnationality of the Victimhood Nationalism; Making Sense of East Asia: From China's Point of View; East Asia as an Objective of an Intellectual History; Securing Okinawa for Miscegenation: A Biopolitical Reading of Nagado Eikichi's "Tent Village of Garama"; Postcolonial Hiroshima, Mon Amour: Franco-Japanese Collaboration in the American Shadow; Postcolonial Film Historiography in Taiwan and South Korea: The Puppet Master and Chihwaseon; The Incurable Feminine of Women without a Country in East Asian Cinema.

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Book SynopsisConfucianism, Chinese History and Society is a collection of essays authored by world renowned scholars on Chinese studies, including Professor Ho Peng Yoke (Needham Research Institute), Professor Leo Ou-fan Lee (Harvard University), Professor Philip Y S Leung (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Professor Liu Ts'un-Yan (Australian National University), Professor Tu Wei-Ming (Harvard University), Professor Wang Gungwu (National University of Singapore) and Professor Yue Daiyun (Peking University). The volume covers many important themes and topics in Chinese Studies, including the Confucian perspective on human rights, Nationalism and Confucianism, Confucianism and the development of Science in China, crisis and innovation in contemporary Chinese cultures, plurality of cultures in the context of globalization, and comparative study of the city cultures in modern China. These essays were originally delivered at the Professor Wu Teh Yao Memorial Lectures. Wu Teh Yao (1917-1994) was an educator, political scientist, specialist in Confucianism and original drafter of the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.Table of ContentsA Confucian Perspective on Human Rights (Tu Wei-Ming); Nationalism and Confucianism (Wang Gungwu); Did Confucianism Hinder the Development of Science in China? (Ho Peng Yoke); East meets West: The Impact on China and her Response (Liu Ts'un-Yan); Across Translingual Landscape: Crisis and Innovation in Contemporary Chinese Cultures (Leo Ou-fan Lee); Zheng He: Navigator, Discoverer and Diplomat (Chin Ling-Yeong); Plurality of Cultures in the Context of Globalization and a New Perspective of Comparative Literature (Yue Daiyun); The Scientific Merit of Educational Studies (Cho-Yee To); In the Beginning: Searching for Childhood in Chinese History and Philosophy (Hsiung Ping-Chen); The Walls and Waters: A Comparative Study of the City Cultures in Modern China - Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong (Philip Y S Leung).

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Book SynopsisA beautifully-written, broadly accessible, and forthright argument for a solution to the migration crisis: open the gates.Because of restrictive borders, human beings suffer and die. Closed borders force migrants seeking safety and dignity to journey across seas, trudge through deserts, and clamber over barbed wire. In the last five years alone, at least 60,000 people have died or gone missing while attempting to cross a border. As we deny, cast out, and crack down, we have stripped borders of their creative potential — as lines of contact, catalyst, and blend — turning our thresholds into barricades.Brilliant and provocative, The Case for Open Borders deflates the mythology of national security through border lockdowns by revisiting their historical origins; it counters the conspiracies of immigration’s economic consequences; it urgently considers the challenges of climate change beyond the boundaries of narrow national identities. This book grounds its argument in the experiences and thinking of those on the frontlines of the crisis, spanning the world to do so. In each chapter, through detailed reporting, journalist and translator John Washington profiles a character impacted by borders. He adds to those portraits provocative analyses of the economics and ethics of bordering, concluding that if we are to seek justice or sustainability we must fight for open borders.In recent years, important thinkers have begun to urge a profoundly different approach to migration, but no book has made the argument as accessible or as compelling. Washington’s case shines with the multitudinous voices of people on the move, a portrait in miniature of what a world with open borders will give to our common future.Trade Review“A powerful and convincing case for human solidarity and cooperation for which Washington provides a roadmap. Unlike many commentaries and books about the fraught border, he does not leave out the Indigenous communities whose homelands have existed in the area for centuries before the border was violently imposed by the United States in 1848.” —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Not “A Nation of Immigrants:” Settler-Colonialism , White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion "John Washington makes a strong, eloquent and even inspiring case for the relaxation and ultimately the abolition of border controls." —JM Coetzee"John Washington’s The Case for Open Borders is a compelling, empathetic argument, a far-reaching look into the origins of borders. Washington is one of our most thoughtful, creative, and humane journalists, and this new work will make people think differently about what they think they already know, about what divides and unites the world in new, surprising ways. Highly recommended." —Greg Grandin"Perhaps the most profound book you’ll read this year. Washington cleaves through all the cruel obfuscations and militaristic cant that derange our border and immigration politics and offers a better human alternative. Borders will not save us, or our rapidly broiling planet, but Washington's reportorial courage and ethical clarity just might." —Junot DíazTable of ContentsPrelude: What’s at Stake?Chapter One: Abu Yassin and The Friendship DamChapter Two: The Historical ArgumentChapter Three: Shafa and Hard Kinetic SolutionsChapter Four: The Economic ArgumentChapter Five: Never Merely TheaterChapter Six: The Case for Urgency, or The Environmental CaseChapter Seven: What Would Open Borders Look Like?Chapter Eight: How I Came to Open BordersChapter Nine: Josiel and Iron ObelisksChapter Ten: 22 Arguments for Open Borders

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