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WW Norton & Co Against the World
Book SynopsisA brilliant, eye-opening work of history that speaks volumes about today’s battles over international trade, immigration, public health and global inequalityTrade Review"Ms. Zahra’s narrative shows us how closely—even eerily—our present-day world resembles the state of the globe roughly a century ago.... The most engaging sections of Ms. Zahra’s vigorous and informative book are those in which she offers us biographical portraits of some of the players in the great game of globalization." -- Tunku Varadarajan - The Wall Street Journal"[Zahra] has written a panoramic work illustrating how societies across the world reacted in the interwar ear against the perceived threats of a globalised economy. " -- Financial Times"[A] superb history of the interwar period… Zahra has produced one of the best and most timely works of global history of the past few years." -- Gavin Jacobson - The New Statesman"A panoramic history of anti-globalisation… Zahra deftly weaves cutting-edge scholarship and human stories into concerns about democracy, markets and nation-states." -- Financial Times"Every story in this book is relevant and absorbing; Zahra plaits her narrative strands together with such deliberation and skill that nothing is out of place." -- Jennifer Szalai - The New York Times"Against the World counterintuitively offers a global history from the perspective of its discontents. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully told." -- Mae Ngai, Bancroft Award–winning author of The Chinese Question"Against the World is a tour de force: Tara Zahra brings her formidable talents as a writer and scholar to this elegant, consistently surprising, and richly peopled book." -- Sunil Amrith, author of Unruly Waters"Against the World not only alerts us to the central intellectual folly of our age. Splendidly timely, it also explains our bewildering present of war and rancorous mass politics, and outlines both challenges and possibilities in our shared future." -- Pankaj Mishra, author of Bland Fanatics"Every day brings another headline about the end of globalization but, as Tara Zahra shows us in her lively and learned new book, we have been here before.… Through vivid portraits of contemporaries from Czech shoe baron Tomás Bat’a to Hungarian-born femin" -- Quinn Slobodian, author of Globalists
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Nationalism in Asia
Book SynopsisUsing a comparative, interdisciplinary approach, Nationalism in Asia analyzes currents of nationalism in five contemporary Asian societies: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea.Trade ReviewA "measured, beautifully written book....Kingston's fine survey asks us to ponder [nationalism's] strengths and dangers, and reminds us to be careful of the 'politicians and polemicists' who enthusiastically hawk it." - David McNeill, The Japan TimesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Maps viii Introduction xv Part I National Identity 1 1 The Idea of Nation 3 2 Contemporary Culture Wars and National Identity 16 3 Nation Branding Confronts Troubling Realities 39 Part II Political Economy and Spectacle 57 4 Economic Nationalism 59 5 Democracy and Nationalism 88 6 Sports Nationalism 118 Part III Shackles of the Past 145 7 Chosen and Unchosen Traumas 147 8 Museums and Memorials 170 9 Textbook Nationalism and Memory Wars 196 Part IV Flashpoints and Fringes 217 10 Nationalism and Territorial Disputes 219 11 Nationalism and the Fringes 243 Select Bibliographical Guide to Nationalisms in Asia 273 Index 303
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Nationalism in Asia A History Since 1945
Book SynopsisUsing a comparative, interdisciplinary approach, Nationalism in Asia analyzes currents of nationalism in five contemporary Asian societies: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Maps viii Introduction xv Part I National Identity 1 1 The Idea of Nation 3 2 Contemporary Culture Wars and National Identity 16 3 Nation Branding Confronts Troubling Realities 39 Part II Political Economy and Spectacle 57 4 Economic Nationalism 59 5 Democracy and Nationalism 88 6 Sports Nationalism 118 Part III Shackles of the Past 145 7 Chosen and Unchosen Traumas 147 8 Museums and Memorials 170 9 Textbook Nationalism and Memory Wars 196 Part IV Flashpoints and Fringes 217 10 Nationalism and Territorial Disputes 219 11 Nationalism and the Fringes 243 Select Bibliographical Guide to Nationalisms in Asia 273 Index 303
£20.85
University of California Press Divided Loyalties
Book SynopsisDetailing the role played by non-elites, this book presents a perspective on nationalism in the Arab Middle East in the early 20th century. It documents the appearance of the popular committee and examines nationalist politics as a mass phenomenon that informs the politics of the region today.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction PART ONE: THE STRUCTURE OF POLITICAL ORGANIZATION IN FAYSALI SYRIA 1. From "Patriotic Agitation" to the Advent of Mass Politics 2. The Popular Committees PART TWO: NATIONALIST COMMUNITIES OF DISCOURSE 3· The Symbolic Component of Rival Nationalist Discursive Fields 4· The Integrative and Prescriptive Powers of Rival Nationalist Discursive Fields PART THREE: THE CEREMONIES OF NATIONALISMS 5. Mobilization from Above and the Invention of Traditions 6. Demonstrating Communities Conclusions Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Jewish State
Book SynopsisElucidates the broad cluster of cultural, historical, and ideological tenets which came to comprise Israel's contemporary political system. This book demonstrates that such tenets were not arbitrary but in fact developed logically from Jewish political habits and the circumstances of time.Trade Review"Not only has Dowty skillfully attached a tremendous amount of data to a sophisticated conceptual framework, but he has also produced a most readable volume. The Jewish State will surely become a core work in the field of Israeli domestic politics." - David Rodman, Israel Affairs "A careful, balanced and often highly insightful analysis of the making and workings of Israeli democracy. The strength of The Jewish State lies in its ability to elucidate the Israeli political system by examining the interaction between traditional Jewish politics, the pressures of security and immigration, ideological and religious conflicts and, not least, the struggle between Jews and Arabs. Dowty has an intimate knowledge of Israeli society and yet maintains the necessary detachment from the kind of political commitment that mars so many works by Israeli scholars." - Times Literary Supplement"Table of ContentsLIST OF MAPS AND TABLES PREFACE TO PAPERBACK EDITION PREFACE PART I · THE SHAPING OF ISRAELI DEMOCRACY 1. Democracy in Israel 2. Jewish Politics 3. The Zionist Revolution 4. Building a Civic State 5. The Filter of Security 6. The Erosion of Ideology PART II · CHALLENGES TO ISRAELI DEMOCRACY 7. The Communal Split 8. Religion and Politics 9. Arabs in Israel 10. The Impact of the West Bank and Gaza EPILOGUE NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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University of California Press Chinas New Nationalism
Book SynopsisLooks at the nature of China's nationalism, particularly as it involves Sino-American and Sino-Japanese relations - two bilateral relations that carry extraordinary implications for peace and stability in the twenty-first century.Trade Review"This book admirably fills a glaring gap in our understanding of how to think intelligently about China. Grounding his insights in an extensive survey of recent American and Chinese portrayals of the other country, the author demonstrates convincingly how even specialists can feed the 'fears and fantasies' that shape and distort our respective perceptions and reinforce the stereotypes that complicate the formulation of sound policy. Remarkably, the lessons are as valuable for Chinese readers as for American, for the general public as for the foreign policy expert." - J. Stapleton Roy, former U.S. ambassador to the People's Republic of China"Table of ContentsIntroduction: Dragon-Slayers and Panda-Huggers 1. Saving Face 2. Chinese Identity and "the West" 3. A "Century of Humiliation" 4. The "Kissinger Complex" 5. Victors or Victims? 6. China's Apology Diplomacy 7. Popular Nationalism and the Fate of the Nation 8. Chinese Nationalism and U.S.--China Relations in the Twenty-First Century Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
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University of California Press Jamaican Leaders
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.
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University of California Press Sovereign Intimacy
Book SynopsisIn the early 1990s, Israeli television began dedicating Memorial Day airtime to videos produced by the grieving families of soldiers killed in the line of duty. When these videos first appeared, during a period of growing Israeli discontent with the occupation of southern Lebanon, they were widely perceived as a challenge to the state, reclaiming the dead from Israel's militaristic memory culture by resituating them in intimate domestic contexts via mediated commemorations. By tracing an emerging media system of freelance filmmaking, privatized television, state institutes of care, and grassroots campaigns, Laliv Melamed reveals how these videos nevertheless avoid a fundamental critique of Israeli militarism, which is instead invited into the familiar space of the home. These intimate connections of memory and media exploit bonds of kinship and reshape larger relationships between the state and its citizens, enabling a collective disavowal of colonial violence. InSovereign Intimacy, Melamed offers a poignant and critical view of the weaponization of home media and mourning in service of the neoliberal settler state.Trade Review"A much-welcome intervention. . . . Melamed’s work earnestly reckons with the urgent need to account for the haunting presence of Palestine in Israeli media practices to interrogate the visuality of Israel’s ever-growing colonial violence." * Film Quarterly *Table of ContentsContents Prologue. “OUR SONS” A Note on Sources Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE. SOVEREIGNTY 1. To Keep in Touch 2. Intimate Proxies 3. Scheduled Memories, Programmed Mourning PART TWO. INTIMACY 4. Figures of Speech 5. At Face Value Epilogue. Answering a Call Notes Filmography Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Sovereign Intimacy
Book SynopsisIn the early 1990s, Israeli television began dedicating Memorial Day airtime to videos produced by the grieving families of soldiers killed in the line of duty. When these videos first appeared, during a period of growing Israeli discontent with the occupation of southern Lebanon, they were widely perceived as a challenge to the state, reclaiming the dead from Israel's militaristic memory culture by resituating them in intimate domestic contexts via mediated commemorations. By tracing an emerging media system of freelance filmmaking, privatized television, state institutes of care, and grassroots campaigns, Laliv Melamed reveals how these videos nevertheless avoid a fundamental critique of Israeli militarism, which is instead invited into the familiar space of the home. These intimate connections of memory and media exploit bonds of kinship and reshape larger relationships between the state and its citizens, enabling a collective disavowal of colonial violence. InSovereign Intimacy,Trade Review"A much-welcome intervention. . . . Melamed’s work earnestly reckons with the urgent need to account for the haunting presence of Palestine in Israeli media practices to interrogate the visuality of Israel’s ever-growing colonial violence." * Film Quarterly *Table of ContentsContents Prologue. “OUR SONS” A Note on Sources Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE. SOVEREIGNTY 1. To Keep in Touch 2. Intimate Proxies 3. Scheduled Memories, Programmed Mourning PART TWO. INTIMACY 4. Figures of Speech 5. At Face Value Epilogue. Answering a Call Notes Filmography Bibliography Index
£27.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Nationalism
Book SynopsisTraces the philosophical foundations of the nationalist doctrine, the conditions which gave rise to it, and the political consequences of its spread in Europe and elsewhere.Trade Review"An indispensable text for a university student or anyone else who wishes to understand nationalism." Norman Wintrop, AJPHTable of ContentsEditorial Foreward. Introduction to the Fourth Edition. Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the First edition. 1. Politics in a new style. 2. Self determination. 3. State and the individual. 4. The excellence of diversity. 5. National self determination. 6. Nationalism and politics: I. 7. Nationalism and politics: II. Afterword. Further Reading. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Encounters with Nationalism
Book SynopsisThe forecast demise of nationalism under the new moral orders of communism and internationalism has proved illusory. In the present century, to an extent greater perhaps than in all others, nationalism has been the dominant force in the affairs of humankind.Trade Review"It is most of all for Gellner's willingness to confront rival explanations of nationalism that this collection is so compelling." Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. 1. Nationalism and Marxism. 2. Nationalism and the International Order. 3. From Kinship to Ethnicity. 4. The Betrayal of the Universal. 5. The Sacred and the National. 6. A Non-nationalist Pole. 7. Kemalism. 8. Enlightenment Against Faith. 9. The Price of Velvet: Tomas Masaryk and Vaclav Havel. 10. Reborn from below: The Forgotten Beginnings of the Czech National Revival. 11. The Nazi Jew-lover. 12. The Mightier Pen: The Double Standards of Inside-out Colonalism. 13. From the Ruins of the Great Contest: Civil Society, Nationalism and Islam. 14. An Alternative Vision. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd States Nations and Nationalism
Book SynopsisThe first general history of the evolution of states and nations in Europe from medieval times to the present. Written by one of the foremost of Germany's youngest generation of historians.Trade Review"Schulze's book is clearly aimed at a wide readership and is likely to be used widely in undergraduate courses on European history." History "Schulze demonstrates a high level of competence in tracing the growth of the nation and the state from the time of Charlemagne to the reign of Napoleon. But it is in his account of that point in the early 19th century when the nation and state fuse that his book achieves brilliance." ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface. Series Editor's Preface. Part I: States:. 1. The Advent of the Modern State. 2. Christianity and Reasons of State. 3. Leviathan. 4. The Constitutional State and the Rule of Law. Part II: Nations:. 5. The 'Nation' is not just any Nation. 6. Nation States and National Cultures. 7. The Pivotal Period. 8. The Invention of the 'Folk Nation'. 9. The Folk Nations in Reality. Part III: Nation States:. 10. The Revolutionary Nation State (1815-1871). 11. The Imperial Nation State (1871-1914). 12. The Total Nation State (1914-1945). Part IV: Nations, States and Europe:. 13. Nations, States and Europe. Notes. Bibliography. Index of Names.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Globalization and Identity
Book SynopsisGlobalization and Identity are an explosive combination, demonstrated by recent outbursts of communalist violence in many parts of the world. Their varying articulations highlight the paradox that accelerating global flows of goods, persons and images go together with determined efforts towards closure, emphasis on cultural difference and fixing of identities. This collection explores this paradox of ''flow'' and ''closure'' through a series of detailed case studies in comparative perspective.Trade Review"This mixture of the empirical and the theoretical as well as the emphasis on globalization as an ambivalent situation of flow and closure are the main strengths of this volume and as such it serves as a useful introduction to the topic, not least to those are put off by the overly theoretical approaches usually associated with the subject matter." John Walliss, Bookends "The immense merit of this volume to readers who are not steeped in the debates about globalization is that it makes the subject relevant to concerns widely shared in the world today. It is also easily comprehensible, with its, on the whole, enlightening case-studies." Patrick Chabal, International Affairs " With a rich confluence of diverse empirical material with social theory, the writers in this volume have made a strong and timely anthology for those interested in globalization or identity studies" Matthew Kurtz, University of Alaska AnchorageTable of ContentsIntroduction. (Birgit Meyer and Peter Geshiere). Nationalism and Transnationalism. Cirassian Encounters: The Self as Other and the Production of the Homeland in the North Caucasus. (Seteney Shami). Transnationalism in the Era of Nation-States: China, 1900-1945. (Prasenjit Duara). The French Colonial Policy of Assimilation and the Civility of the Originaires of the Four Communes (Senegal): A Nineteenth Century Globalization Project. (Mamadou Diouf). Enforcing the Human Rights of Citizens and Non-Citizens in the Era of Maastricht: Some Reflections on the Importance of States. (Jacqueline Bhabha). Commodities and Fantasies. Small Product, Big Issues: Value Contestations and Cultural Identities in Cross-Border Commodity Networks. Commodities and the Power of Prayer: Pentecostalist Attitudes Towards Consumption in Contemporary Ghana. (Birgit Meyer). Domesticating Diamonds and Dollars: Identity, Expenditure and Sharing in Southwestern Zaire (1984-1997). (Filip De Boeck). Globalization and the Power of Indeterminate Meaning: Witchcraft and Spirit Cults in Africa and East Asia. (Peter Geschiere). Theoretical Reflections. Time and the Global: Against the Homogeneous, Empty Communities in Contemporary Social Theory. John D. Kelly. Globalization and Virtuality: Analytical Problems Posed by the Contemporary Transformation of African Societies. (Wim van Binsbergen). Dead Certainty: Ethnic Violence in the Era of Globalization. (Arjun Appadurai). Epilogue: On Some Reports from a Free Space. (Ulf Hannerz). Notes on Contributors. Index
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Wiley Globalism Regionalism and Nationalism
Book Synopsis* Brings together contributions from leading Asian, North American and European scholars. * Presents varied perspectives on globalization, regionalism and nationalism particularly from the viewpoint of Asia. * Offers new insights into Asian perspectives on international affairs. .Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Foreward: Hideo Sato (University of Tsukuba). Presidential addresses from the 1998 conference of the Japan Association of International Relations and the International Studies Association. Introduction: Yoshinobu Yamamoto. 1. Globalization, Regionalism and Nationalism: Asia in Search of its Role in the 21st Century: Takehiko Kamo (deceased - former President of JAIR). 2. Avoiding Choices, Pursuing Opportunities: Asia in International Affairs, 1996 and 1998: Davis B. Bobrow (University of Pittsburgh, former President of ISA). 3. Collective Identity and Epochal Change in the International System: Rodney Bruce Hall (University of Pennsylvania). 4. Challenges of the Responses to Globalization:the Case of South East Asia: Prasert Chittiwatanapong. 5. Transnational Flows of People and International Exchange: Phenomena and Activities: Kenichiro Hirano (Waseda University). 6. Regionalism in East Asia and the Asia- Pacific: Ryuhei Hatsuse. 7. Japan and Micro-regionalism: Constructing the Japan Sea Rim Zone: Glenn D. Hook. 8. International Relations Theory and Chinese Foreign Policy: Tatsumi Okabe. 9. China and Japan in Search of their Roles in the 21st Century: Regionalism and Globalism: Shigeaki Uno (Seikei University). 10. Three Faces of Japan: Nationalist, Regionalist, Globalist Futures: Tsuneo Akaha (Monterey Institute of International Policy Studies). 11. The Impact of Changes in the International System on Domestic Politics: The Case of Japan in the 1990s: Shigeko N. Fukai (Okayama University). 12. Japan's Approach to Gender and Development: Plurality in Development Cooperation Policy and Practices: Satoko Kurata (Center for International Cooperation, Tokyo).
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Arab Nationalism
Book SynopsisThis is a much needed, concise survey of Arab nationalism both as an historical movement and a doctrine. The author identifies the particular characteristics and development of Arab nationalism and provides a wide-ranging history.Trade Review"[Choueiri] provides a wealth of detail based on the writings of al-Miqdadi, Ghurbal ... and many others. Largely expository in style, his book describes what they have to say about the Arab nation and about the political programmes needed to realize its potential. In doing so, he brings out the differences among them and sympathetically assesses the problems many encountered." Times Literary Supplement "Recommended particularly for university libraries and those interested in political theory and Middle East studies." CHOICE "Arab Nationalism is a well-written, fact-filled book that constitutes a useful single-volume study of the evolution of Arabism. It is well-suited for readers who have in interest in the international nuances and development of nationalism and for those Middle East history enthusiasts who wish to delve into a more specialized topic." History: Reviews of New BooksTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. Glossary. 1. Nationalism and Its Theories. The World of Unbelief and Negative Approaches. Rousseau's Passion. Kant's Guilt. The World of Positive Belief. A Question of Dignity. The Agnostics or Reluctantly Neutral. 2. Narrating the Nation. Lessons of History. The Rise of Islam. The Modern Age. Darwish al-Miqdadi: The Nation in History. Historical Structures. Lessons of History and Temporal Distances. An Egyptian Perspective. Islam and Arabism. 3. Cultural and Political Arabism. The Ottoman Background and European Rivalry. Cultural Arabism. The Fatherland and Patriotism. The Cultural and the Political. Political Arabism 1900-1945. Articulation of Pan-Arabism. Political Parties. 4. Educating the Nation: Sati' al-Husri. The Arab League. What is Nationalism?. 5. In Search of Theory. Regionalism. An Arab Polity. Al-Arsuzi: Language and Industry. Shahbandar: Leadership and Revolution. Michel 'Aflaq: The Vanguard. Socialism. Nationalism. Religion. New Politics. 6. Socialism and Pan-Arabism. The World of Social Arab Nationalism. Nasserism. Political Orientations. Theory and Practice. The Universal and the Specific. Ba'thism. 7. Epilogue: Civil Society and Democracy. Neo-Arabism. Notes. List of Dynasties. Further Reading. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Nations and Identities
Book SynopsisThis work brings together selections from some of the most significant writings on the idea of national identity over the last 400 years. Beginning with Hobbes's and Locke's early formulations of the modern state, the excerpts chosen illustrate the rich history of the national idea.Trade Review"Pecora is an extremely thoughtful, intelligent, and substantial scholar. This book will be enormously helpful to students and teachers in colonial and postcolonial studies. The selections are wide-ranging and acutely chosen, and will allow students to connect history to the present, or better still, to see the present as part of a continuing, questionable history." Michael Wood, Princeton University "This is a timely, reader-friendly anthology that should be widely used both for academic and for more general purposes. It offers 'classic readings,' as well as a range of 'contemporary perspectives.' The introduction provides a clear overview from the 1600s down to our postcolonial and transnational moment." Patrick Brantlinger, Indiana University "Providing an excellent selection of key documents from Hobbes's Leviathan (1651)to Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism (1993), Nations and Identities offers the reader genuine insight into the way problems of nation-building and unbuilding, identity-formation and deformation have been addressed across time. Pecora introduces the anthology with an incisive essay that outlines major issues shaping the contemporary discussion of nations and national identity. This book will be of great value for its readers both in courses and across the disciplines." Dominick LaCapra, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction: Vincent P. Pecora. Part I: Inventing the Modern State:. 1. Leviathan (1651): Thomas Hobbes. 2. Two Treatises of Government (1690): John Locke. Part II: From Divine to Human History:. 3. The New Science (1725; 1744): Giambattista Vico. 4. The Spirit of the Laws (1748): Charles Louis de Secondat (Baron de Montesquieu). 5. The Social Contract, Origin of Inequality, and Government of Poland (1754-72): Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 6. Dissertations on Ossian (1763): James Macpherson. 7. Ideas for a Philosophy of History of Mankind (1784-91): Johann Gottfried von Herder. 8. Discourse on the Hindus (1786): Sir William Jones. 9. Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790): Edmund Burke. Part III: The Spirit of a People:. 10. Study on Sovereignty (Composed 1793-8; First Published 1884): Joseph de Maistre. 11. Addresses to the German Nation (1808): Johann Gottlieb Fichte. 12. The Philosophy of History (1830-1): G. W. F. Hegel. 13. The Inequality of Human Races (1854): Arthur de Gobineau. 14. Considerations on Representative Government (1861): John Stuart Mill. 15. Nationality (1862): John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton. 16. To the Italians (1871): Giuseppe Mazzini. 17 What is a Nation? (1882): Ernest Renan. 18. Our America (1891): José Martí. 19. The Jewish State (1896): Theodor Herzl. 20. The Conservation of Races (1897): W. E. B. Du Bois. 21. Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899): Houston Stewart Chamberlain. Part IV: Nations at the End of Empires:. 22. Home Rule, Enlightened Anarchy, and National Language (1909-39): Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. 23. The Right of Nations to Self-Determination (1914): V. I. Lenin. 24. Addresses: The Fourteen Points and League of Nations (1918-19): Woodrow Wilson. 25. Aims and Objects of Movement for Solution of Negro Problem (1924): Marcus Garvey. 26. The Myth of the Twentieth Century (1930): Alfred Rosenberg. 27 Three Guineas (1938): Virginia Woolf. 28. Discourse on Colonialism (1955): Aimé Césaire. 29 On National Culture (1959): Frantz Fanon. Part V: Contemporary Perspectives:. 30. The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States (1963): Clifford Geertz. 31. Nations and Nationalism (1983): Ernest Gellner. 32. Imagined Communities (1983): Benedict Anderson. 33. The Riddle of Midnight: India, August 1987: Salman Rushdie. 34. The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question (1987): Partha Chatterjee. 35. The Origins of Nations (1989): Anthony D. Smith. 36. A Kind of Scar: The Woman Poet in a National Tradition (1989): Eavan Boland. 37. Narrating the Nation (1990): Homi K. Bhabha. 38. Culture and Imperialism (1993): Edward W. Said. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Nations and Identities
Book SynopsisThis work brings together selections from some of the most significant writings on the idea of national identity over the last 400 years. Beginning with Hobbes's and Locke's early formulations of the modern state, the excerpts chosen illustrate the rich history of the national idea.Trade Review"Pecora is an extremely thoughtful, intelligent, and substantial scholar. This book will be enormously helpful to students and teachers in colonial and postcolonial studies. The selections are wide-ranging and acutely chosen, and will allow students to connect history to the present, or better still, to see the present as part of a continuing, questionable history." Michael Wood, Princeton University "This is a timely, reader-friendly anthology that should be widely used both for academic and for more general purposes. It offers 'classic readings,' as well as a range of 'contemporary perspectives.' The introduction provides a clear overview from the 1600s down to our postcolonial and transnational moment." Patrick Brantlinger, Indiana University "Providing an excellent selection of key documents from Hobbes's Leviathan (1651)to Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism (1993), Nations and Identities offers the reader genuine insight into the way problems of nation-building and unbuilding, identity-formation and deformation have been addressed across time. Pecora introduces the anthology with an incisive essay that outlines major issues shaping the contemporary discussion of nations and national identity. This book will be of great value for its readers both in courses and across the disciplines." Dominick LaCapra, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction: Vincent P. Pecora. Part I: Inventing the Modern State:. 1. Leviathan (1651): Thomas Hobbes. 2. Two Treatises of Government (1690): John Locke. Part II: From Divine to Human History:. 3. The New Science (1725; 1744): Giambattista Vico. 4. The Spirit of the Laws (1748): Charles Louis de Secondat (Baron de Montesquieu). 5. The Social Contract, Origin of Inequality, and Government of Poland (1754-72): Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 6. Dissertations on Ossian (1763): James Macpherson. 7. Ideas for a Philosophy of History of Mankind (1784-91): Johann Gottfried von Herder. 8. Discourse on the Hindus (1786): Sir William Jones. 9. Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790): Edmund Burke. Part III: The Spirit of a People:. 10. Study on Sovereignty (Composed 1793-8; First Published 1884): Joseph de Maistre. 11. Addresses to the German Nation (1808): Johann Gottlieb Fichte. 12. The Philosophy of History (1830-1): G. W. F. Hegel. 13. The Inequality of Human Races (1854): Arthur de Gobineau. 14. Considerations on Representative Government (1861): John Stuart Mill. 15. Nationality (1862): John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton. 16. To the Italians (1871): Giuseppe Mazzini. 17 What is a Nation? (1882): Ernest Renan. 18. Our America (1891): José Martí. 19. The Jewish State (1896): Theodor Herzl. 20. The Conservation of Races (1897): W. E. B. Du Bois. 21. Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899): Houston Stewart Chamberlain. Part IV: Nations at the End of Empires:. 22. Home Rule, Enlightened Anarchy, and National Language (1909-39): Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. 23. The Right of Nations to Self-Determination (1914): V. I. Lenin. 24. Addresses: The Fourteen Points and League of Nations (1918-19): Woodrow Wilson. 25. Aims and Objects of Movement for Solution of Negro Problem (1924): Marcus Garvey. 26. The Myth of the Twentieth Century (1930): Alfred Rosenberg. 27 Three Guineas (1938): Virginia Woolf. 28. Discourse on Colonialism (1955): Aimé Césaire. 29 On National Culture (1959): Frantz Fanon. Part V: Contemporary Perspectives:. 30. The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States (1963): Clifford Geertz. 31. Nations and Nationalism (1983): Ernest Gellner. 32. Imagined Communities (1983): Benedict Anderson. 33. The Riddle of Midnight: India, August 1987: Salman Rushdie. 34. The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question (1987): Partha Chatterjee. 35. The Origins of Nations (1989): Anthony D. Smith. 36. A Kind of Scar: The Woman Poet in a National Tradition (1989): Eavan Boland. 37. Narrating the Nation (1990): Homi K. Bhabha. 38. Culture and Imperialism (1993): Edward W. Said. Index.
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Harvard University Press Reinventing Russia
Book SynopsisBrudny argues that the rise of the Russian nationalist movement was a combined result of the reinvention of Russian national identity by a group of intellectuals, and the Communist Party's active support of this reinvention in order to gain greater political legitimacy.Trade ReviewMr. Brudny provides a salient background to understanding one of the great phenomena of post-1945 history: how Russians arrive at their view of the West. -- Ron Laurenzo * Washington Times *Brudny is a good guide to the origins of what probably lies ahead. -- Geoffrey A. Hosking * Times Literary Supplement *If readers think that today's anti-Western, antimarket, antisemitic variety of Russian nationalism is simply the fallout from the country's current misery, they should think again. With care and intelligence, Brudny traces its lineage back to the Khrushchev years. What began among the so-called village prose writers as a lament for a rural past ravaged by Stalin's experimentation gradually accumulated further grievances: the devastation of Russian culture and monuments, the infiltration of 'corrupting' Western values, and ultimately under Gorbechev the 'criminal' destruction of Russian power. Much of the book concentrates on how Khrushchev and Brezhnev tried--but ultimately failed--to harness this discontent for their own purposes. -- Robert Legvold * Foreign Affairs *Brudny's survey of relations between Russian nationalism and the Soviet state provides an in-depth insight into one of the most complicated aspects of the Soviet multi-national state. -- Taras Kuzio * International Affairs *A thought-provoking book. * Virginia Quarterly *Brudny shows that Russian cultural nationalism was a powerful force in the post-Stalin years, with ultimate political consequences. In meticulous detail Brudny sets out the various strains of Russian nationalism and points to the regime's encouragement of a certain kind of nationalism as a means of bolstering legitimacy through the 'politics of inclusion'...This volume is a significant contribution to the literature. -- R. J. Mitchell * Choice *In Reinventing Russia, situated at the intersection of culture (specifically the literature of the village prose movement) and politics, Brudny has managed admirably to draw out the wider implications of his inquiry and provided an extremely useful set of orientation points in the current, seemingly so chaotic, political debate in Russia. -- Hans J. Rindisbacher * European Legacy *Brudny's book paints a fascinating picture. It delineates a rich Soviet culture and society, one that is much more varied than has been previously depicted by most Western researchers. The overriding importance of the book derives from its argument that the post-Stalinist cultural debate in the Soviet Union is what created the infrastructure for the seemingly odd alliance between communist ideology and the nationalist intelligentsia--today's 'red-brown' alliance. It's a significant contribution to our understanding of the history of the nationalist idea...[Reinventing Russia provides] an enthralling overview of a historic development that has been neglected by most Western researchers...His book proves once more that anyone who seeks to understand developments in Eastern Europe cannot do so by merely analyzing the economic policy of the political maneuvers of the governing elite. -- Shlomo Avineri * Ha'aretz Book Review *Yitzhak Brudny offers us a most persuasive attempt to explain the intricate, often puzzling relation between Soviet political and cultural bureaucracy and the rise of Russian nationalism in the post-Stalin era. His analysis of Russian nationalist ideology and its role in the corrosion of the official Soviet dogmas is uniquely insightful and provocative. Students of Soviet and post-Soviet affairs will find in Brudny's splendidly researched book an indispensable instrument to grasp the meaning of the still perplexing developments that led to the breakdown of the Leninist state. In the growing body of literature dealing with nationalism and national identity, this one stands out as boldly innovative, theoretically challenging, and culturally sophisticated. -- Vladimir Tismaneanu, University of Maryland, College Park, author of Fantasies of SalvationYitzhak Brudny has produced an impressive and scholarly account of the divisions within the Russian political and cultural elite during the last four decades of the Soviet Union's existence. His book is important both for the fresh light it throws on that period and as essential context for interpreting the debates on nationhood and statehood which rage in Russia today. -- Archie Brown, University of OxfordReinventing Russia provides us with a vivid portrayal of the politics behind the rise of Russian nationalism in post-Stalinist Russia. It is a finely detailed study of not only the relationship of political authority to the spread of nationalist ideas, but also reciprocally of the role played by these ideas in shaping the political. -- Mark Beissinger, University of Wisconsin-MadisonRival nationalists literally shook the Soviet Union apart. The very structure of the Soviet state encouraged all major ethnic groups--including the Russians--to view battles over resources in terms of ethnic and national conflict. Brudny, in this important study, explores precisely how rival nationalist claims emerged during the years following Stalin's death, and why they proved to be simultaneously so robust and pernicious. -- Blair Ruble, Director, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson CenterThe strength of Yitzhak M. Brudny's book, Reinventing Russia, is its explanation of how Russian Nationalists worked to advance their causes from the time of Stalin's death to the Soviet Union's demise. -- Cpt. Todd Laughman, USAF * Military Review *His analysis is enriched by Soviet archival materials recently made available; by examination of an immense range of published materials; and by interviews in Russia beginning in 1989. Consequently, the book will be very helpful for all concerned with the final decades of the Soviet system and its immediate aftermath in the Russian Republic. -- John A. Armstrong * Journal of Modern History *Yizhak Brudnyadds a new intellectual perspective to previous explications of Russian nationalism by illuminating the relationship between nationalist writers and the state. Unlike other scholars, who have analyzed Russian nationalism from an economic or sociological starting point, Brudny addresses his treatment on the idea that in communist societies the "politics of culture" achieves an unprecedented importance...Reinventing Russia breaks much new ground, transcending earlier studies and illuminating recent Russian political culture through the medium of intellectual history. -- Todd Lee * History *In his excellent book Reinventing Russia: Russian Nationalism and the Soviet State, 1953-1991, historian Yitzhak Brudny demonstrates how post-Stalinist Soviet leaders used nationalism to fill the ideological gaps left by Marxism-Leninism, which was losing its power to inspire the population. -- Amy Knight * Globe and Mail *In his excellent book Reinventing Russia: Russian Nationalism and the Soviet State, 1953-1991, historian Yitzhak Brudny demonstrates how post-Stalinist Soviet leaders used nationalism to fill the ideological gaps left by Marxism-Leninism, which was losing its power to inspire the population. -- Amy Knight * Globe and Mail *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Russian Nationalists in Soviet Politics 2. The Emergence of Politics by Culture, 1953-1964 3. The First Phase of Inclusionary Politics, 1965-1970 4. The Rise and Fall of Inclusionary Politics, 1971-1985 5. What Went Wrong with the Politics of Inclusion? 6. What Is Russia, and Where Should It Go? Political Debates, 1971-1985 7. The Zenith of Politics by Culture, 1985-1989 8. The Demise of Politics by Culture, 1989-1991 Epilogue: Russian Nationalism in Postcommunist Russia Notes Index
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Harvard University, Asia Center China Made
Book SynopsisIn the early 20th century, China began to import and then to manufacture thousands of consumer goods. Politicians feared trade deficits. Intellectuals feared loss of national sovereignty. And manufacturers wondered how they could survive a flood of cheap imports. Gerth argues that the responses of these groups helped foster modern nationalism.
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Harvard University Press The Ukrainian West
Book SynopsisMonths before crowds in Moscow dismantled monuments to Lenin, residents of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv toppled theirs. Risch argues that Soviet politics of empire created this anti-Soviet city, and that opposition from the periphery as much as from the imperial center was instrumental in unraveling the Soviet Union.Trade ReviewRisch's examination of the political, social, and cultural history of Lviv—one of the major Soviet windows on the West—is unmatched in its detail and depth of understanding. His analysis of the rise of nonconformist trends in the sphere of popular culture heralds a welcome addition to the history of Soviet society in the post-World War II era. -- Serhii Plokhii, Harvard UniversityAn intriguing account of cultural life in Lviv. This work stands out as the best introduction to the city's recent history in English. Risch makes an important contribution to Soviet, Ukrainian, East European, borderlands, and urban history alike. -- Mark von Hagen, Arizona State University
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Harvard University Press Changing Homelands
Book SynopsisNeeti Nair’s account of the partition in the Punjab rejects the idea that essential differences between the Hindu and Muslim communities made political settlement impossible. Far from being an inevitable solution, partition—though advocated by some powerful Hindus—was a stunning surprise to the majority of Hindus in the region.Trade ReviewThis engagingly written book places Punjabi Hindus at the center of Partition scholarship. Nair’s often devastating examination of the complex considerations and unfathomable burdens that weighed on the minds of millions as they ‘chose’ to migrate reveals fresh thinking about religion and politics in South Asia. -- Mridu Rai, author of Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights, and the History of KashmirNair’s powerful book claims that for Punjab’s Hindus there was nothing inevitable about the coming of partition. She offers new and challenging interpretations of major events and personalities, which will transform our understandings of Punjab’s relationship to the Indian nationalist movement. Her discussion of Punjab’s partition and the subsequent memory of partition among Delhi Hindus is a tour de force. -- David Gilmartin, author of Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of PakistanThe well-researched study, providing a wealth of information drawn from a wide variety of sources, serves more than a purely academic purpose. It gives the lay reader a clearer understanding of the subcontinent’s history in its crucial phase, the part of history that continues to be distorted by diverse groups of holy crusaders. -- J. Sri Raman * The Hindu *Historian Neeti Nair’s Changing Homelands, a fine addition to the new generation of Partition scholarship, adeptly navigates sensitive historical terrain to shed new light on the complicated story of Punjab’s Hindus, and the relation of Punjab to the larger Indian national movement… Nair traces the evolution of the term ‘communalism’ in anti-colonial nationalist politics from the first decade of the twentieth century, thereby complicating the easy synonymy the term has come to occupy with exclusionary bigotry today. This is crucial work if we are to dissipate the polarized debates that we have inherited and often perpetuate. In excavating the role played by the politics of Punjab’s influential Hindu minority, even as she attempts to impart multiple dimensions to the key players and situations involved, Nair puts forward an original, bold and responsible interpretation which adds considerably to the existing literature that focuses overwhelmingly on Muslim politics and the role of the British in ‘explaining’ Partition and the inception of communal politics in India. -- Sahana Ghosh * Contemporary South Asia *An extremely able work. -- A. G. Noorani * Frontline *Gives you new food for thought. -- Syed Badrul Ahsan * Daily Star *Neeti Nair confidently handles the tangled responses of Punjabi Hindu politicians to the issue of minority rights and safeguards in the late colonial era, thereby shedding fresh light on Punjab’s relationship to the Indian nationalist movement… Nair consults a variety of source materials and offers original interpretations for her readers. -- Ian Talbot * American Historical Review *The book makes a serious claim that the partition of Punjab should not be seen merely in relation to the ‘known’ politics of the Muslim League; rather, to understand the events of 1947, one needs to look at the complex politics of colonial Punjab, particularly the ideas, beliefs and moves of those Punjabi leaders, who claimed to represent the interests of ‘Hindus.’ …The modes by which ‘politics,’ an organized and collective activity, is performed in a colonial context is another important and perhaps the most fascinating theme of the book. One finds an engaging discussion on three well-known political figures—Lala Lajpat Rai, Swami Shraddhanand and Bhagat Singh. Nair does not take the conventional route to approach these figures; rather, she tries to place them in their own context to unpack those political aspects, which are not associated with the established images of these leaders… Nair makes a powerful claim that the given histories of Partition need to be questioned to understand the processual nature of such events. In this sense, Nair makes a serious contribution to Partition Studies—an emerging field of intellectual engagement with histories and memories of the Partition of the Indian subcontinent. -- Hilal Ahmed * The Book Review *[Changing Homelands] challenges the conventional understanding on the political causes leading to division of a nation into two… [Nair’s] account is to a large extent groundbreaking and adds a new perspective to the existing discourse on India’s partition. There is an underlying inquisitiveness embedded throughout this exhaustive account for which the author deserves critical appreciation… The author’s arguments are imposing and sure to draw attention. Her language is clear and engaging and her bibliography offers a rich assortment including several primary documents which authenticate the narrative and add further value to the overall broader arguments. -- Priyanka Singh * Canadian Journal of History *Neeti Nair has written a comprehensive and complex history of the Punjabi Hindus in the first half of the twentieth century. Changing Homelands begins by tracing the rise of communalism in the 1920s and ends with partition in the 1940s. The author has offered new insights about the role of prominent personalities, like Swami Shraddhanand, Lajpat Rai, and Bhagat Singh… Changing Homelands is…a valuable account of the partition of the Punjab. More important, Nair’s book is probably the most substantial and nuanced history of urban Punjabi Hindus that has been written so far. She will be widely read. -- Rohit Wanchoo * H-Net Reviews *Neeti Nair’s Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India raises the pivotal question of Punjabi Hindus who, being ‘suddenly’ rendered a minority in their land, had to migrate to what became/remained India. The case of the Punjabi Hindus is atypical—they were minority Hindus in Muslim-majority Punjab, who had to migrate to become part of a majoritarian Hindu community in India. In India today, where Muslims constitute the major minority, it is hard to imagine Hindus as a minority. The book can help us imagine, across time, the fate of such a large minoritarian Punjabi Hinduism. This is historically significant as the present state of minority Hinduism in Pakistan (chiefly in Sindh) is too miniscule to provide a useful comparative point of analysis. Nair’s book helps sensitize us to the enormous contingency of majority and minority formation—and perhaps no question is more significant for South Asian polities today…Nair’s book demonstrates the compound causal assemblages and nexuses that led to Partition rather than the teleology of ‘communalism’—and the chief value of this type of analysis might lie in the fact that the identified political elements can then be meaningfully re-assembled in a way that can moderate conflict, guilt and misunderstanding in the present. -- Nikhil Govind * India International Centre Quarterly *It is in this emphasis on the heterogeneous history of nationalism and Partition, and in its contestation of the exclusivity of categories like communal, anti-colonial or nationalist that this book can claim its distinctive place in South Asian historiography… In recent years a number of historians have argued about the nation living in heterogeneous time. This book buttresses that argument with significant empirical evidence, culled from conventional archives as well as retrieved through oral history methods. In that sense, it is an important addition to the genre of Partition literature. -- Sekhar Bandyopadhyay * Indian Historical Review *Drawing on an impressively wide range of archival sources, Changing Homelands gives us a compelling account of the contingent and far-from-inevitable onset of partition in Punjab. -- Nikhil Rao * Journal of Asian Studies *This book is an important addition to the field of ‘Partition Studies’ that has sought to complicate the earlier historiographical silences around the 1947 Partition of India and its narrativization as an aberrational moment of insanity in an otherwise non-violent history of Indian national independence. Nair’s revisionist attention to the warp and weft of religious anticolonial politics in early twentieth century Punjab illuminates the disjunctures and differences between the power negotiations among religiously defined Punjabi communities that retrospectively got named ‘communalist’ and contemporary Hindutva… Through careful and textured archival analysis of the political discourse around key events leading up to the Partition, Changing Homelands offers us a fresh and valuable perspective on the Punjabi experience of Partition and its continued affective resonance for so many refugees and their descendants in contemporary Delhi. It is as much a book about modern power relations in South Asia as it is a book about the failures and lost opportunities that constitute the history of Partition. This book is useful not only for those interested in the Partition, but also for those interested in the history of empire as well as South Asia. -- Kavita Daiya * Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient *Provides a valuable corrective to the historiography of politics in late colonial Punjab that has more often than not been over-determined by the impulse to explain partition… Nair marshals a wide range of sources to demonstrate that while some Punjabi Hindus undoubtedly supported partition, the historical evidence does not demonstrate that this particular way of imagining a homeland and belonging to it had gained overwhelming support, or even the upper hand, among all or most Punjabi Hindus in the decades preceding partition… Neeti Nair’s main contribution lies in providing a revisionist perspective to the Punjabi Hindus’ complicity in partitioning the province; but Changing Homelands is much more than a regional study of the ‘high politics’ of partition in the Punjab. With consummate skill, the narrative interweaves archival research with oral history, and fleshes out the connections between the high politics of partition and the situation on the ground. Her work is emblematic of a new wave of partition studies, in which an untenable separation of elite and subaltern politics has given way to rich mappings of their interconnections. -- Uditi Sen * Journal of Genocide Research *An important addition to the emerging research on this region’s politically traumatic event, Neeti Nair’s Changing Homelands highlights how Partition memory, stored in oral histories, has been largely constructed by the region’s subsequent politics and by people’s willful act of forgetting some portions of history… The story of Partition is only now beginning to be unpacked, as South Asians try to break free from the formulaic versions fed to them in the initial nation-building decades. In this context, Nair’s juxtaposing and interrogating of different strands of memory-making tools will be immensely useful, especially because oral history is just now taking off in India. While many academic historians dismiss oral history as inauthentic even today, this book helps the reader go beyond the simple act of rejection or acceptance. It advocates a more nuanced study of how memory works and how history is fluid and unfixed. -- Rama Lakshmi * Oral History Review *Nair offers fresh interpretations of Punjab’s relationship with the national movement. -- Sohini Majumdar * Refugee Watch Online *It is an excellent work of meticulous research. Its argument is sharp and well executed. In many ways, what Joya Chatterji accomplished in her book, Bengal Divided (1994), Nair does for Punjab. Nair’s is a fine illustration of Rancière’s dissensus: it derails the received wisdom on Partition. Nair cogently builds her argument by dwelling on Punjabi Hindu politics. She discusses diverse ideological currents among Punjabi Hindus (and Sikhs) and attends to their entanglements, inconsistencies and evolution. -- Irfan Ahmad * South Asia *[An] extremely impressive study of the Partition of India… Nair’s accomplishment in Changing Homelands is, above all else, her meticulously close attention to detail as she patiently unravels a number of vital strands in this larger tangle. She delivers a necessarily dense and complex, but very readable, narrative of what transpired in the Punjab (her focus), primarily over roughly a half century. -- Geoffrey Kain * South Asian Review *As a history of activities of Hindus in the Punjab, this book is a useful addition to understanding the history of the Punjab. -- R. D. Long * Choice *
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Harvard University Press What Is a Palestinian State Worth
Book SynopsisWhat is a Palestinian state worth? This book poses questions about the history, meaning, future, and resolution of the Israel/Palestine conflict.Trade ReviewNusseibeh recommends reframing the conflict and advocates that negotiators look beyond the conference room to focus on the reality in the homes and streets of Palestinians and Israelis, and envision a collective peace, progress, and safety…His philosophical and balanced book is unfailingly sensitive and empathetic to both sides. * Publishers Weekly *In a display of rationality uncommon to discussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Nusseibeh takes an impartial vantage point, trying to sort out a mess largely generated by overblown and hyperactive political identities…Nusseibeh is an experienced and bold politician and a shrewd intellectual. His views, accordingly, demand serious consideration. * Boston Review *Sari Nusseibeh is not a Palestinian Gandhi—he is a secular intellectual, not a saint, and while he has occupied prominent roles in Palestinian life (formerly as a leader of the first intifada and a Palestinian Authority diplomat, currently as president of al-Quds University), he has never commanded a mass following. But in his short new book he comes closer to advocating a Gandhian strategy than any other Palestinian leader I know of. -- Adam Kirsch * Tablet Magazine *Sari Nusseibeh repeatedly expresses his belief that change is possible if people have the self-confidence and faith in themselves to act. He sees his task as an educator to be one of inculcating such faith. And he also describes, in several chapters of his often moving book, a moral basis for political action that can speak to all of us. Like Gandhi, and like Abdallah Abu Rahmah and Ali Abu Awwad…Nusseibeh seeks not to coerce his opponents—in this case the Israeli people along with their political and military institutions—into changing their self-destructive course but to change their will, or their feelings. He wants them to step back from prejudice and an obsession with brute force and to open their eyes. He wants them to find in themselves the generosity of spirit needed in order to take a chance on peace, whether in the form of two states or a single binational entity or, perhaps, some kind of confederation. -- David Shulman * New York Review of Books *The ideas might sound strange in their departure from conventional wisdom about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the positions of leaders and pundits on both sides, but it's good policy to pay attention. In the past, Sari Nusseibeh has taken positions that his fellow Palestinians condemned—and then, a couple of uprisings and aborted peace conferences later, embraced. -- Haim Watzman * Chronicle of Higher Education *Nusseibeh's informal style, urgent and passionate, and especially his call to sit down with the enemy, will engage all sides in intense debate. -- Hazel Rochman * Booklist *There is nothing like it in the literature of this conflict. Every year thousands of articles and blog posts are produced about how to end the conflict. They all feel stale. This book does not. -- Greg Waldmann * Open Letters Monthly *
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Harvard University Press The Brethren
Book SynopsisIn 1777, North Carolina farmers planned a coup against local patriots. Brendan McConville shows they were motivated not by Crown loyalty but by love of individual and religious libertyas they understood them. Complicating revolutionary narratives, the plotters feared American independence would usher in the very tyranny it claimed to contest.Trade Review[McConville’s] use of archival and printed primary sources to discern thoughts and actions of obscure people [is] a rare feat…Important and well worth reading and discussing. -- Carole Watterson Troxler * North Carolina Historical Review *An engaging read. In addition to enlightening readers on issues affecting the yeoman population in the Revolution, this book will appeal particularly to those who are interested in religious history as well as aficionados of the Carolinas’ history. -- Kelly Mielke * Journal of the American Revolution *McConville’s study is the first to uncover the history of the Brethren, bringing this fascinating story to light…The Brethren is a great example of how scholars can use sparse sources and some imagination to craft a compelling narrative and argument. -- Savannah Flanagan * Past Tense Graduate Review of History *In this innovative and vivid history, McConville deploys deft and deep research to recover a long-hidden struggle within the American Revolution for the soul of a new nation. The Brethren reveals a contradictory, divisive, violent, and volatile revolution that pivoted on the allegiance of rural Christians alienated from the more secular leaders of their state. -- Alan Taylor, author of American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804McConville gives us an American Revolution we have never really seen. The Brethren demonstrates the hidden power of anti-Catholicism, loyalism, slave revolts, and a crucial conflict among patriots. It turns out that many ordinary Americans were determined to save their religion equally from King George III and from America’s own rationalist elite. -- Woody Holton, author of Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American RevolutionIn reconstructing the Lewellen conspiracy, McConville recovers the complexity and nuance of the American Revolution on the ground. This isn’t a story of idealistic Founding Fathers making the Enlightenment real, but of common people making sense of momentous changes. Written with great verve and flair, this book challenges our assumptions about the nature of the Revolution itself. -- Francis D. Cogliano, author of Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson’s Foreign PolicyMcConville provides a compact and elegant account of conspiratorial resistance to Revolutionary authority by alienated Anglicans in North Carolina, revealing important new perspectives on shifting religious and political orientations in the Revolution. Recovering a world unfamiliar, transient, and disconcerting, The Brethren amply repays readers interested in exploring the confused conflicts and abrupt dislocations of ordinary Americans during the Revolutionary crisis. -- Stephen A. Marini, author of Radical Sects of Revolutionary New England
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Harvard University Press Muslim Chinese Ethnic Nationalism in the Peoples
Book SynopsisThis second edition of Dru Gladney’s critically acclaimed study of the Muslim population in China includes a new preface by the author, as well as a valuable addendum to the bibliography, already hailed as one of the most extensive listing of modern sources on the Sino-Muslims.Trade ReviewGladney locates the significance of the Hui (and the study of minorities) in their challenge to the dominant Chinese and Western perceptions of China… [A] fine, pioneering work. * Journal of Asian Studies *Muslim Chinese is an anthropological study of the Hui based on three years’ fieldwork in China and supported by a formidable battery of references, including most of the important scholarship on Hui history, society, and literature that has emerged… A vivid and detailed picture of Hui life and attitudes. * China Quarterly *
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Princeton University Press Constitutional Patriotism
Book SynopsisOffers a different theory of citizenship and civic allegiance for culturally diverse liberal democracies. This book argues for a form of political belonging centered on universalist norms, adapted for specific constitutional cultures.Trade Review"Is it possible to develop a 'patriotic' attachment to what is basically a set of intellectual positions? This is the question Muller attempts to answer in this short, bracing book. His analysis is centered on the Federal Republic of Germany, a government deliberately designed to eliminate the need to be 'German' in order to be a German citizen... What can be learned from this experience can, Muller hopes, be brought to bear on similar problems facing the newborn EU. A clearly written, thoughtful, and enjoyable analysis."--M. Berheide, Berea College, for Choice "In Constitutional Patriotism, Werner Muller, who teaches politics at Princeton, has provided a thorough and engaging defense of the concept."--Michael Lind, American Prospect "[T]his is an interesting and thoughtful book. There are many open ended arguments and some gaps (for me the ambiguity of theoretical republicanism loomed large), however, overall it is be welcomed as a valuable contribution to current political theory."--Andrew Vincent, Nations and NationalismTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Chapter One: A Brief History of Constitutional Patriotism 15 Chapter Two: Nations without Qualities? Toward a Theory of Constitutional Patriotism 46 Chapter Three: A European Constitutional Patriotism? On Memory, Militancy, and Morality 93 Afterword: But Is It Enough? 141 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 149 NOTES 153 INDEX 175
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Princeton University Press Liberal Loyalty
Book SynopsisArgues that we owe civic obligations to the state if it is sufficiently just, and that constitutionally enshrined principles of justice in themselves - rather than territory, common language, or shared culture - are grounds for obedience to our particular state and for democratic solidarity with our fellow citizens.Trade Review"Are liberals left with either a repugnant cultural nationalism or a floating cosmopolitanism, or can they create a coherent liberal account that grounds citizens' loyalty to a particular state? Stilz forcefully argues that they can. After skillfully exposing problems with both cosmopolitan and nationalist liberalisms and effectively refuting liberal-leaning anarchists, Stilz turns to Kant, Rousseau, and Habermas for inspiration, arguing that liberals must conceptualize loyalty as a political duty to support institutions that promote liberal freedoms."--Choice "Stilz has articulated with great clarity and consistency an alternative to both consent-theories of political obligation and to their nationalist counterparts. That alternative will find many supporters, and deserves to be taken very seriously even by its critics."--Lea Ypi, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "One of the values of Stilz's work is her attempt to reclaim particular terms and categories from contemporary political and philosophical discourse... The end of her work, the articulation of a rationally arrived-at duty of justice leading us to be loyal to democratic institutions and processes, is a worthwhile and ongoing project."--John Randolph LeBlanc, American Review of Politics "Anna Stilz's book [is] a thoughtful, compelling meditation on liberal citizenship."--Steven Johnston, Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsPreface vii PART ONE: Equal Freedom and the State Chapter 1: Introduction 3 Chapter 2: Authority 27 Chapter 3: Democracy 57 Chapter 4: Political Obligation and Justice 85 PART TWO: Solidarity and Allegiance Chapter 5: Freedom and Culture in Rousseau 113 Chapter 6: Nationalism or Patriotism? 137 Chapter 7: Democracy as Collective Action 173 Chapter 8: Conclusion 209 Bibliography 213 Index 221
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Princeton University Press Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century From
Book SynopsisLike a great dynasty that falls to ruin and is eventually remembered more for its faults than its feats, Arab nationalism is remembered mostly for its humiliating rout in the 1967 Six Day War, for inter-Arab divisions, and for words and actions distinguished by their meagerness. But people tend to forget the majesty that Arab nationalism once was.Trade Review"A timely, illuminating and highly readable overview of the history of the Arab national movement, from its origins in the 19th century to the present... [The book] not only brings events alive, but also leads to fresh assessments and a better-informed understanding of the politics of one of the world's most volatile and violent regions."--Avi Shlaim, Guardian "Dawisha has written a fine analysis of the heyday and decline of the ideology of Arab nationalism... With a sound theoretical apparatus and making good use of memoirs by those involved, Dawisha provides an excellent guide to the origins of the movement and the reality behind the rhetoric."--Choice "[A] splendid recent obituary of the movement."--Economist "Dawisha tackles [an] intimidatingly big subject with success. He has mastered the vast literature on the subject, weeding out the contentious or just plain wrong accounts and integrating the several good studies that get it right. Added to this is his own considerable expertise."--L. Carl Brown, Foreign Affairs "[Dawisha] relates the many angles of this rich, complex, and multifaceted subject in a readable, lucid, and economic manner."--Israel Gershoni, American Historical Review "Dawisha carefully navigates between various, contested historical narratives to create a balanced, authoritative historical work. He relates the many angles of this rich, complex, and multifaceted subject in a readable, lucid, and economic manner that nonspecialists will appreciate. His book is a comprehensive account of the evolution of Arab nationalism and an insightful evaluation of the role it played in shaping the modern Arab Middle East."--Israel Gershoni, American Historical Review "[O]ne of the most comprehensive studies on pan-Arab nationalism to date."--Amaney Jamal, Political Science Quarterly "Adeed Dawisha's highly readable, clear-eyed, and sober historical account of Arab nationalism is an important contribution to our understanding of its rapid rise to fame and equally rapid fall from grace. Combining the seasoned insights of a veteran Middle East scholar, recent scholarship, and the memoirs of Arab leaders and intellectuals, Dawisha has produced a major addition to the study of Arab nationalism and the politics of the region."--Michael Barnett, Middle East Journal "A wonderfully insightful and analytical study of a significant political phase in the Middle East."--Jonas Kauffeldt, History: Reviews of New Books "This book is a major intellectual advance in the study of comparative political ideologies in general, and Arab political thought in particular."--Bill S. Mikhail, Middle East Policy "This provocative book is likely either to delight or infuriate. It will certainly delight all those who have, all along, considered Arab nationalism to be an irritant and would gleefully read its obituary set in gloating prose. But the fury of the adherents or sympathizers of Arab nationalism will be all the greater as the author lays out his case in a highly controversial and contentious manner."--Youssef M. Choueiri, Studies in Contemporary Islam "Adeed Dawisha has given us a timely, illuminating and highly readable overview of the history of the Arab national movement, from its origins in the 19th century to the present. His book combines an analysis of the ideas of Arab nationalism and their roots in European thought, with a fast-moving political narrative, full of dramatic ups an downs... [He] brings to his task a rare personal insight, as well as mastery of the voluminous Arabic sources on the subject. There is a great deal of new material here which not only brings events alive, but also leads to fresh assessments and a better-informed understanding of the politics of one of the world's most volatile and violent regions."--Avi Shlaim, The ObserverTable of ContentsCHAPTER ONE: Defining Arab Nationalism 1 CHAPTER TWO: Early Stirrings: The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 14 CHAPTER THREE: Sati' al-Husri's Theory of Arab Nationalism 49 CHAPTER FOUR: Arab Nationalism and Competing Loyalties: From the 1920s to the Arab Revolt in Palestine 75 CHAPTER FIVE: The Path to Nationalist Ascent: From the Palestinian Revolt to the Egyptian Revolution 107 CHAPTER SIX: Consolidating Arab Nationalism: The Emergence of "Arab" Egypt 135 CHAPTER SEVEN: Arab Nationalism on the March,1955-1957 160 CHAPTER EIGHT: The Apex of Arab Nationalism: The United Arab Republic andthe Iraqi Revolution, January-September 1958 186 CHAPTER NINE: Arab Nationalism's Downward Slide,1958-1967 214 CHAPTER TEN: 1967 and After: The Twilight of Arab Nationalism 252 CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Demise of Arab Nationalism: A Postmortem 282 CHAPTER TWELVE Requiem for Arab Nationalism 314 Bibliography 333 Index 349
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Princeton University Press Arab Patriotism The Ideology and Culture of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This study is a significant step in clarifying identity in the Arab provinces during the 19th century regarding both the Ottoman Empire and within the provinces themselves." * Choice *"Mestyan is at his best when he excavates and reconstructs lines connecting diverse and often obscure individuals to equally diverse institutions of power."---Wilson Chacko Jacob, American Historical Review"Adam Mestyan’s Arab Patriotism is an ambitious project on the Ottoman province of Egypt . . . in the nineteenth century."---Side Emre, Bustan"Arab Patriotism is an ambitious study. Dealing with Egyptian history from the 1830s to the 1890s, it addresses two hitherto relatively unexplored subjects. . . . Throughout, the study presents fresh material and opens new perspectives on Egyptian history. The book is a significant contribution to the history of modern Egypt."---James Jankowski, Journal of Arabic LiteratureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii List of Tables ix Notes on Transliteration, Names, Titles, and Currency xi Introduction 1 I The Making of the Khedivate 17 1 The Ottoman Origins of Arab Patriotism 21 2 The Ottoman Legitimation of Power: The Khedivate 50 3 The European Aesthetics of Khedivial Power 84 II "A Garden with Mellow Fruits of Refinement" 121 4 A Gentle Revolution 125 5 Constitutionalism and Revolution: The Arab Opera 164 III The Reinvention of the Khedivate 199 6 Harun al-Rashid under Occupation 203 7 Behind the Scenes: A Committee and the Law, 1880s-1900s 238 8 Distinction: Mustafa Kamil and the Making of an Arab Prince 268 Conclusion: The Ottoman Origin of Arab Nationalisms 303 Acknowledgments 309 Abbreviations 311 Works Cited 313 Index 345
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Princeton University Press Why Nationalism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Interesting and provocative. . . . Highly ambitious."---Jonathan Derbyshire, Financial Times"Tamir’s work makes an important contribution by forcing us to recognize that national feeling, however defined, isn’t going away. Her argument is that the resurgence in nationalism derives in part from a reaction against an economic structure whose benefits flow mostly to those at the top, those who have rejected any responsibility for helping their fellow members of the national community. That is an argument progressives can and should incorporate into their presentation. But we can’t do that if we reject the very idea of a national community, what Tamir defines as the ‘political we.’"---Ian Reifowitz, Daily Kos"Progressives are getting nostalgic for nationalism. . . . Why Nationalism is an important contribution to this growing literature. Yael Tamir elegantly recounts nationalism’s virtues."---Peter Spiro, Lawfare"[Tamir] courageously defends moderate and universal nationalist outlooks, masterfully distinguishes between these and the murky populist wave washing over societies worldwide and endangering the Western democratic order . . . . [Why Nationalism] is outstanding in that it combines her background as a political philosopher with her many years of hands-on political experience, something that can’t be said of many scholars in the West who are now focusing on these issues."---Shlomo Avineri, Haaretz"Free-market libertarians and social democrats both have lots to learn from this measured and thoughtful book."---David Conway, Jewish Chronicle
£18.00
Princeton University Press The Joshua Generation
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£37.80
Princeton University Press Let the People Rule
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£22.50
Princeton University Press Nation Building
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Stein Rokkan Prize, European Consortium for Political Research""Co-Winner of the Barrington Moore Book Award, Comparative-Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association""In this fascinating account of state- and nation-building across time and space, Wimmer does a great job in convincing readers of the explanatory value of his theory."---Sean Mueller, Regional and Federal Studies"This is a book of profound and far-reaching significance for those wishing to understand how nations are built.—John Torpey, Sociological Forum"
£25.20
Princeton University Press Modis India
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Christophe Jaffrelot, Winner of the Prix Raymond de Boyer de Sainte-Suzanne, Académie française (for the original French edition)""Financial Times Best Books of 2021: Politics""A The Hindu Top 10 Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year""Modi’s India is a masterpiece of careful research."---James Crabtree, Financial Times"The most comprehensive study of Modi’s India to date offers a bleak and unsparing view of the direction of the country."---Gideon Rachman, Financial Times, Best Books of The Year 2021"Christophe Jaffrelot’s book is a work of outstanding scholarship, a formidable documentation and compelling commentary on how India has changed in the first seven years under the leadership of Narendra Modi. . . .it is only a scholar of exceptional assurance and erudition who would attempt such an audaciously comprehensive, contemporary history written in real-time rather than with hindsight, and succeed simultaneously to inform, stir and provoke his readers."---Harsh Mander, Telegraph of India"Modi’s India is an exhaustive account of contemporary Indian politics, which impressively draws on numerous sources and examines a range of issues . . . . this work emerges as an important contribution to the study of the future of democracy in India and beyond."---Pratim Ghosal, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics"The strengths of this book are many."---Stephanie Duclos-King, Religious Studies Review
£27.00
Princeton University Press Arab Patriotism The Ideology and Culture of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This study is a significant step in clarifying identity in the Arab provinces during the 19th century regarding both the Ottoman Empire and within the provinces themselves." * Choice *"Mestyan is at his best when he excavates and reconstructs lines connecting diverse and often obscure individuals to equally diverse institutions of power."---Wilson Chacko Jacob, American Historical Review"Adam Mestyan’s Arab Patriotism is an ambitious project on the Ottoman province of Egypt . . . in the nineteenth century."---Side Emre, Bustan"Arab Patriotism is an ambitious study. Dealing with Egyptian history from the 1830s to the 1890s, it addresses two hitherto relatively unexplored subjects. . . . Throughout, the study presents fresh material and opens new perspectives on Egyptian history. The book is a significant contribution to the history of modern Egypt."---James Jankowski, Journal of Arabic Literature
£28.80
Princeton University Press Why Nationalism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A stimulating reading about nationalism and democracy for both scholars and practitioners interested in contemporary politics."---Alon Helled, Democratization
£999.99
Princeton University Press The Joshua Generation Israeli Occupation and the
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£999.99
Princeton University Press Resurrecting the Jew
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Vucinich Book Award, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies""Winner of the Rachel Feldhay Brenner Award, The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America"
£25.20
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Rhetoric of Donald Trump Nationalist
Book SynopsisAnalyses the nationalist and populist themes that dominate the rhetoric of President Trump and links those themes to a persona that has evolved from celebrity outsider to presidential strongman. This is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand how Trump's rhetoric undermines basic principles at the heart of American democracy.Trade ReviewThe author provides a refreshingly clear-eyed, deeply-informed, and rigorously argued examination of the phenomenon that is Donald Trump. Rowland is especially helpful in exploring the relationship between the particulars of Trump's language practices and their more general implications for populism, democracy, and the American presidency. This is a work of singular achievement." - Stephen Howard Browne, professor of communication arts and sciences, Pennsylvania State University, and author of The First Inauguration: George Washington and the Invention of the Republic"Of some eighty studies of Trump's rhetoric that have appeared between 2015 and 2020, Robert Rowland's book The Rhetoric of Donald Trump: Nationalist Populism and American Democracy is the best. Rowland develops a theoretical framework that explains Trump's rhetoric and why it is effective. In so doing, he extends rhetorical theories of both affect and genre. As he notes, treating Trump's rhetoric as an expression of an affective genre is not only important for explaining Trump's success but also for illuminating the rise of nationalist populism in Europe and for suggesting important ways of extending genre criticism beyond a narrow situational approach. That Rowland is one of the leading theorists of genre studies gives his theoretical argument added power." - David A. Frank, professor of rhetoric, Clark Honors College, University of Oregon"The Rhetoric of Donald Trump takes the reader on an in-depth analysis of Trump's communication-from his campaign oratory to his presidential speeches and from his tweets to his COVID-19 briefings. Throughout this excellent book, Robert C. Rowland incisively demonstrates how Trump's unforgiving nationalism, populist attacks on elites, and violation of rhetorical norms, in tandem with the persona of a celebrity outsider that has evolved into that of an authoritarian leader, have forged a bond of identity with his followers that persists. Rowland also points to the grave dangers that Trump's rhetoric pose to American democracy." - Denise M. Bostdorff, author of The Presidency and the Rhetoric of Foreign Crisis and Proclaiming the Truman Doctrine: The Cold War Call to Arms"In this important and carefully researched volume, Professor Robert C. Rowland examines and critiques Donald Trump's strategic exploitation of some of the darkest and most divisive elements of American populist and anti-immigrant sentiments. Rowland provides a strong warning of the dangers posed to the vitality of our democracy and our most important institutions by this rhetoric. Trump and Trumpism have sadly captured the hearts and minds of the Republican Party and its most devoted followers, and this book explains why this style of discourse may persist for years to come." - Thomas A. Hollihan, professor, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, and author of Uncivil Wars: Political Campaigns in a Media Age
£37.76
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Real Americans National Identity Violence and
Book SynopsisBoldly challenges the conventional wisdom that a shared devotion to the Constitution is the essence of what it means to be American. In his careful analysis of US history, Jared Goldstein demonstrates how movements deploy the rhetoric of constitutional devotion to express their national visions and justify their violence.Trade ReviewProfessor Jared Goldstein deftly explores how persons with exclusionary ideologies have claimed that those ideologies are rooted in the same Constitution that other Americans have claimed is committed to realizing the creed laid out in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. Real Americans details the history of claims that the Constitution of the United States was designed for white persons, for Protestants, for native-born citizens, or for some combination of the three. An eye-opener and a page-turner on the dark side of American constitutional identity." - Mark A. Graber, regents professor, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law"From the country’s inception, Americans have used the language of constitutional fidelity and devotion not only to reaffirm desirable and civically unifying creedal principles but also to foment exclusionary, divisive, and morally reprehensible values. Racists, ethno- and Christian nationalists, and other illiberal extremists have consistently wrapped themselves in the mantle of the Constitution while casting themselves as the compact’s most loyal defenders. For this reason, we cannot afford to take pious invocations of constitutional faith at face value. Jared Goldstein’s seminal study is essential reading for anyone hoping to understand some of the most disturbing currents of contemporary American politics." - Ken I. Kersch, professor of political science, Boston College, and author of American Political Thought: An Invitation"Goldstein’s illuminating book does a beautiful job of highlighting the ideological elasticity of the federal US Constitution—the way in which constitutional loyalty has served as a critical bedrock for a wide variety of American nationalisms. Through a series of compelling case studies, Real Americans focuses especially on exclusionary and illiberal forms of national belonging that have been encased in constitutional rhetoric. This book is a bracing rejoinder to the more familiar and rosy presentations of American constitutional culture and deserves as broad an audience as possible." - Aziz Rana, Richard and Lois Cole Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
£73.10
University Press of Kansas Real Americans National Identity Violence and
Book SynopsisBoldly challenges the conventional wisdom that a shared devotion to the Constitution is the essence of what it means to be American. In his careful analysis of US history, Jared Goldstein demonstrates how movements deploy the rhetoric of constitutional devotion to express their national visions and justify their violence.Trade ReviewProfessor Jared Goldstein deftly explores how persons with exclusionary ideologies have claimed that those ideologies are rooted in the same Constitution that other Americans have claimed is committed to realizing the creed laid out in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. Real Americans details the history of claims that the Constitution of the United States was designed for white persons, for Protestants, for native-born citizens, or for some combination of the three. An eye-opener and a page-turner on the dark side of American constitutional identity." - Mark A. Graber, regents professor, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law"From the country’s inception, Americans have used the language of constitutional fidelity and devotion not only to reaffirm desirable and civically unifying creedal principles but also to foment exclusionary, divisive, and morally reprehensible values. Racists, ethno- and Christian nationalists, and other illiberal extremists have consistently wrapped themselves in the mantle of the Constitution while casting themselves as the compact’s most loyal defenders. For this reason, we cannot afford to take pious invocations of constitutional faith at face value. Jared Goldstein’s seminal study is essential reading for anyone hoping to understand some of the most disturbing currents of contemporary American politics." - Ken I. Kersch, professor of political science, Boston College, and author of American Political Thought: An Invitation"Goldstein’s illuminating book does a beautiful job of highlighting the ideological elasticity of the federal US Constitution—the way in which constitutional loyalty has served as a critical bedrock for a wide variety of American nationalisms. Through a series of compelling case studies, Real Americans focuses especially on exclusionary and illiberal forms of national belonging that have been encased in constitutional rhetoric. This book is a bracing rejoinder to the more familiar and rosy presentations of American constitutional culture and deserves as broad an audience as possible." - Aziz Rana, Richard and Lois Cole Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
£26.06
Pluto Press Surplus Citizens
Book SynopsisHow grassroots movements have survived and thrived amidst a harsh political and economic crisisTrade Review'An extraordinary achievement. Kotouza's incisive contribution to critical social theory and to the analysis of the contemporary dynamics of capitalist social relations should be read by all' -- Werner Bonefeld, author of 'Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: On Subversion and Negative Reason''In this original study, Kotouza powerfully shows how national social struggles, like the ones we witnessed in Greece in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, are littered with contradictions and exclusions. Nevertheless by taking the politics of the excluded as its horizon, Surplus Citizens offers us the hope of a more inclusive, transnational politics' -- Elena Loizidou, Birkbeck University of London'An extraordinary guide to our present' -- Joshua Clover, author of 'Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings''Breaking the ethno-national and state-centred cage into which discussions of the Greek crisis have largely been confined, Kotouza's book puts questions of race, gender and migration at the core of its analysis and provides us with a powerful model for investigating the dynamics and limits of contemporary surplus rebellions' -- Alberto Toscano, author of 'Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Transliteration List of Abbreviations Introduction: Squares and Frontiers PART I - HISTORIES: UNDEAD AND INVISIBLE CONFLICTS, TRANSFORMATIONS, CRISIS 1. The Making of Greek Capitalism through Race, Gender and Class 2. Victories, Defeats and Neoliberal Transformation, 1973–2008 3. Symptoms of Crisis PART II - BECOMING SURPLUS: STRUGGLE AND ITS LIMITS 4. Social Struggle, Non-Identity and Popular Democracy 5. Citizens from Democracy to Riot 6. Labour and Superfluity 7. Solidarity, Charity or Exchange? 8. The Forest Against Work, Workers Against the Forest 9. Care, Vulnerability and Gender Politics PART III - NATIONALISM, BIOPOLITICS AND STRUGGLE AT THE BORDERS 10. Everyday Racism, Crisis Nationalisms and Migrant ‘Autonomy’ 11. Surplus Population Management by a Nation-State in Crisis 12. Nationalism from Below 13. Migrant Struggle and Anti-Fascism Conclusion Index
£24.29
Pluto Press Surplus Citizens Struggle and Nationalism in the
Book SynopsisHow grassroots movements have survived and thrived amidst a harsh political and economic crisisTrade Review'An extraordinary achievement. Kotouza's incisive contribution to critical social theory and to the analysis of the contemporary dynamics of capitalist social relations should be read by all' -- Werner Bonefeld, author of 'Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: On Subversion and Negative Reason''In this original study, Kotouza powerfully shows how national social struggles, like the ones we witnessed in Greece in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, are littered with contradictions and exclusions. Nevertheless by taking the politics of the excluded as its horizon, Surplus Citizens offers us the hope of a more inclusive, transnational politics' -- Elena Loizidou, Birkbeck University of London'An extraordinary guide to our present' -- Joshua Clover, author of 'Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings''Breaking the ethno-national and state-centred cage into which discussions of the Greek crisis have largely been confined, Kotouza's book puts questions of race, gender and migration at the core of its analysis and provides us with a powerful model for investigating the dynamics and limits of contemporary surplus rebellions' -- Alberto Toscano, author of 'Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Transliteration List of Abbreviations Introduction: Squares and Frontiers PART I - HISTORIES: UNDEAD AND INVISIBLE CONFLICTS, TRANSFORMATIONS, CRISIS 1. The Making of Greek Capitalism through Race, Gender and Class 2. Victories, Defeats and Neoliberal Transformation, 1973–2008 3. Symptoms of Crisis PART II - BECOMING SURPLUS: STRUGGLE AND ITS LIMITS 4. Social Struggle, Non-Identity and Popular Democracy 5. Citizens from Democracy to Riot 6. Labour and Superfluity 7. Solidarity, Charity or Exchange? 8. The Forest Against Work, Workers Against the Forest 9. Care, Vulnerability and Gender Politics PART III - NATIONALISM, BIOPOLITICS AND STRUGGLE AT THE BORDERS 10. Everyday Racism, Crisis Nationalisms and Migrant ‘Autonomy’ 11. Surplus Population Management by a Nation-State in Crisis 12. Nationalism from Below 13. Migrant Struggle and Anti-Fascism Conclusion Index
£72.25
Pluto Press Under the Cover of Chaos
Book SynopsisA cultural analysis of anxiety, alienation and narcissism in America.Trade Review'A profound and insightful analysis of the diverse forces that have led to Trump's election. Everyone should read this book if they want to understand the rise of authoritarianism in the United States' -- Henry Giroux, McMaster University Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest, author of On Critical Pedagogy'This is a timely book, to say the least. Beyond the moment, however, Grossberg's vision is thought-provoking, stirring, even exciting as well as frightening because it shows that there are new things to say about the morass of American and other democratic politics today and new ways to understand our situation. It's also a rattling good read' -- Meaghan Morris, University of SydneyTable of ContentsPreface Part I: From Trump to the Conjuncture 1. The Terror and the Beast 2. Telling Stories and Stories Told 3. Other Stories are Possible, and Possibly Even Better Part II: In Search of the Conjuncture 4. The New Right 5. The Reactionary Right 6. Affective Landscapes Part III: A Conjunctural Politics 7. Back to the Present: A Reactionary Counter-Modernity 8. Conclusions? Appendix: Cultural Studies and Conjunctural Analysis Bibliography Thanks
£16.14
Pluto Press Under the Cover of Chaos Trump and the Battle for
Book SynopsisA cultural analysis of anxiety, alienation and narcissism in America.Trade Review'A profound and insightful analysis of the diverse forces that have led to Trump's election. Everyone should read this book if they want to understand the rise of authoritarianism in the United States' -- Henry Giroux, McMaster University Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest, author of On Critical Pedagogy'This is a timely book, to say the least. Beyond the moment, however, Grossberg's vision is thought-provoking, stirring, even exciting as well as frightening because it shows that there are new things to say about the morass of American and other democratic politics today and new ways to understand our situation. It's also a rattling good read' -- Meaghan Morris, University of SydneyTable of ContentsPreface Part I: From Trump to the Conjuncture 1. The Terror and the Beast 2. Telling Stories and Stories Told 3. Other Stories are Possible, and Possibly Even Better Part II: In Search of the Conjuncture 4. The New Right 5. The Reactionary Right 6. Affective Landscapes Part III: A Conjunctural Politics 7. Back to the Present: A Reactionary Counter-Modernity 8. Conclusions? Appendix: Cultural Studies and Conjunctural Analysis Bibliography Thanks
£72.25
Pluto Press 32 Counties The Failure of Partition and the Case
Book SynopsisPartitioning Ireland was an experiment that has lasted a century. Now it is time for it to come to an endTrade ReviewThe phrase 'If we don't learn from the past, we are doomed to repeat it', seems more apt about Ireland than anywhere else. To look at Ireland through the prism of class is to see not what might have been but what brightness the future might bring. Kieran Allen's new book is Irish history seen anew, from below, bristling with practical lessons for working-class struggle today' -- Eamonn McCann, politician, journalist and political activist'Showing how partition was not to separate two hostile cultures but a strategy to defend the British empire, it traces the grisly story through to the return of the national question today when Irish unity can be posed again on a new socialist basis. Essential reading for anyone who wants to change Irish society' -- Brid Smith, People Before Profit TD'An important contribution to a debate that has been reignited. It is an excellent tool for activists who are navigating the arguments in favour of ending partition' -- Gerry Carroll, MLA Stormont Assembly for West Belfast‘Makes a compelling case that Connolly’s class-oriented vision offers a way out of the sectarian maze Ireland has been trapped in since partition’ -- ‘Jacobin’'If there is one book you need to read to grasp what’s going on in Ireland, and Northern Ireland specifically, it must be Kieran Allen’s 32 Counties’ -- ‘Counterfire’Table of ContentsPreface 1. ‘A Carnival of Reaction’: The Origins of Partition 2. Republicans and Loyalists 3. British Imperialism 4. Managed Sectarianism 5. Protestant Workers 6. The Return of the National Question 7. The Left and Irish Unity 8. What Kind of United Ireland? Notes Index
£72.25
University of British Columbia Press Empires and Autonomy
Book SynopsisThis collaborative study explores moments in the history of globalization and autonomy to provide insights into changes overtaking the contemporary world.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Introduction / Stephen M. Streeter, John C. Weaver, and William D. Coleman2 Tibet and the Chinese World-Empire / Timothy Brook3 Litigating for Freedom in the British Empire, 1815-22: The Universal and Local in Tension / John C. Weaver4 Ottoman Military and Social Transformations, 1826-28: Engagement and Resistance in a Moment of Global Imperialism / Virginia Aksani5 Wired Religion: Spiritualism and Telegraphic Globalization in the Nineteenth Century / Jeremy Stolow6 The Internationalization of Capital Then and Now: The Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Samir Saul7 Global Industrial Enclaves: Company Towns and Export-Processing Zones Compared, 1900-2000 / Neil White8 Freedom of the Ether or the Electromagnetic Commons? Globality, the Public Interest, and Multilateral Radio Negotiations in the 1920s / Daniel Gorman9 A Globalization Moment: Franklin D. Roosevelt in Casablanca (January 1943) and the Decolonization/Development Impulse / Ronald W. Pruessen10 Paradigm Shift and the Nuremberg Trials: The Emergence of the Individual as a Subject and Object of International Law / Adrian L. Jones11 The US-Led Globalization Project in the Third World: The Struggle for Hearts and Minds in Guatemala and Vietnam in the 1960s / Stephen M. Streeter12 A Globalizing Moment: The United Nations' Decades for Development and the North African Countries / Yassine Essid13 Snakes That Are Rainbows: Indigenous Worldviews and the Constitution of Autonomy / Ravi De Costa14 Globalization and US Empire: Moments in the Forging of the Global Turn / Ulf HedetoftNotes; Works Cited; Contributors; Index
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Empires and Autonomy
Book SynopsisThis collaborative study explores moments in the history of globalization and autonomy to provide insights into changes overtaking the contemporary world.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Introduction / Stephen M. Streeter, John C. Weaver, and William D. Coleman2 Tibet and the Chinese World-Empire / Timothy Brook3 Litigating for Freedom in the British Empire, 1815-22: The Universal and Local in Tension / John C. Weaver4 Ottoman Military and Social Transformations, 1826-28: Engagement and Resistance in a Moment of Global Imperialism / Virginia Aksani5 Wired Religion: Spiritualism and Telegraphic Globalization in the Nineteenth Century / Jeremy Stolow6 The Internationalization of Capital Then and Now: The Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Samir Saul7 Global Industrial Enclaves: Company Towns and Export-Processing Zones Compared, 1900-2000 / Neil White8 Freedom of the Ether or the Electromagnetic Commons? Globality, the Public Interest, and Multilateral Radio Negotiations in the 1920s / Daniel Gorman9 A Globalization Moment: Franklin D. Roosevelt in Casablanca (January 1943) and the Decolonization/Development Impulse / Ronald W. Pruessen10 Paradigm Shift and the Nuremberg Trials: The Emergence of the Individual as a Subject and Object of International Law / Adrian L. Jones11 The US-Led Globalization Project in the Third World: The Struggle for Hearts and Minds in Guatemala and Vietnam in the 1960s / Stephen M. Streeter12 A Globalizing Moment: The United Nations' Decades for Development and the North African Countries / Yassine Essid13 Snakes That Are Rainbows: Indigenous Worldviews and the Constitution of Autonomy / Ravi De Costa14 Globalization and US Empire: Moments in the Forging of the Global Turn / Ulf HedetoftNotes; Works Cited; Contributors; Index
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Against Orthodoxy
Book SynopsisThis volume challenges conventional approaches to the study of nationalism in the context of its violent resurgence.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Slobodan Drakulic and Trevor W. HarrisonPart 1: Theory and History1 Academic Nationalism / Slobodan Drakulic2 Do Nationalists Have Navels? Where Is Childhood in Nationalism Theory? / Karen Stanbridge3 Tolerant Majorities, Loyal Minorities, and “Ethnic Reversals”: Constructing Minority Rights at Versailles, 1919 / Liliana Riga and James KennedyPart 2: Minorities and Civil Society4 Neither Perennial nor Modern: Christian-Muslim Enmities in the Balkans / Slobodan Drakulic5 Understanding Multiculturalism in Divided Societies: Exploring a New Path / Elke Winter6 Canada’s French Fact -- or Facts? / Rémi Léger7 Civic and Ethnic Nationalist Narratives in Ethiopia / Sarah VaughanPart 3: Politics and the State8 Militarism and Nationalism in Japan / Trevor W. Harrison9 Who Are the Nationalists? A Profile of Scottish National Party Supporters / Michael Rosie and Ross Bond10 After the PRI: Neo-Liberalism and Nationalism in Mexico / Julián Castro-ReaPart 4: The International Dimension11 Messianic Nationalism: The American Imperative / Michael Parenti12 Islamic Nationalism, Imperialism, and the Middle East / Trevor W. Harrison13 Progressive Inter-Nationalist Nationalisms: The Return of Transformative, Anti-Imperialist Traditions / Gordon Laxer14 Implacable Foes or Strange Bedfellows? The Promise and Pitfalls of Eco-Nationalism in a Globalized World / John HanniganConclusion / Trevor W. Harrison and Slobodan DrakulicIndex
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