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Author: Geoffrey A. Hosking
Publisher: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781850653349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume, a group of specialists look at the general and theoretical nature of myth on a universal basis, and examine the specific myths of various nations. The aim is to try and illuminate the deeper, underlying issues of nationalism that cause so much conflict throughout the world.
Author: George Schopflin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1136677240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMyths are central to the way we live and how we define ourselves. In this pioneering book, a group of specialists--among them Anthony Smith, Norman Davies, Geoffrey Hosking and George Schopflin--look at the general and theoretical nature of myth on a universal basis and examine the specific myths of various nations. With nationhood and ethnicity at the centre of political attention, the book is timely in illuminating the deeper, underlying issues of nationalism that cause so much conflict throughout the world.
Author: Gérard Bouchard
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-02
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1136221107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMyths are a major, universal sociological mechanism which is still rather poorly understood Demonstrates the relevance and the potential of myths as a research area Provides a timely shift in the usual focus of national studies, which typically centers on ethnicity, immigration, integration, citizenship, cultural diversity and nationalism Demonstrates the nature and the functioning of myths in contemporary societies, as a nexus of meanings that feed identities, memory and utopias Contributions from international authors
Author: Patrick J. Geary
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2003-02-02
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0691114811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDismantling nationalist myths about how the nations of Europe were born, this text contrasts them with the actual history of Europe's transformation between the fourth and ninth centuries - the period of grand migrations that nationalists hold dear.
Author: M. Elizabeth Ginway
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780838755648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScience fiction, because of its links to science and technology, is the consummate literary vehicle for examining the perception and cultural impact of the modernization process in Brazil. Because of the centrality of the role played by the military dictatorship (1964-85) in imposing industrialization and economic development policies on Brazil, this book examines the genre in the periods before, during, and after the dictatorship, encompassing the years 1960-2000. The analysis shows that a reading of Brazilian science fiction based on its use of paradigms of Anglo-American science fiction and myths of Brazilian nationhood provides a unique look into Brazil's modern metamorphosis as it finds itself on the periphery of the globalized world.
Author: Veljko Vujačić
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-03-26
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1107074088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the role of Russian and Serbian nationalism in dissolution of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in 1991.
Author: Serhii Plokhy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-07-26
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 1139536737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the years following the Napoleonic Wars, a mysterious manuscript began to circulate among the dissatisfied noble elite of the Russian Empire. Entitled The History of the Rus', it became one of the most influential historical texts of the modern era. Attributed to an eighteenth-century Orthodox archbishop, it described the heroic struggles of the Ukrainian Cossacks. Alexander Pushkin read the book as a manifestation of Russian national spirit, but Taras Shevchenko interpreted it as a quest for Ukrainian national liberation, and it would inspire thousands of Ukrainians to fight for the freedom of their homeland. Serhii Plokhy tells the fascinating story of the text's discovery and dissemination, unravelling the mystery of its authorship and tracing its subsequent impact on Russian and Ukrainian historical and literary imagination. In so doing he brilliantly illuminates the relationship between history, myth, empire and nationhood from Napoleonic times to the fall of the Soviet Union.
Author: Amelia Kalant
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-06-01
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 1135938083
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough readings of literature, canonical history texts, studies of museum displays and media analysis, this work explores the historical formation of myths of Canadian national identity and then how these myths were challenged (and affirmed during the 1990 standoff at Oka. It draws upon history, literary criticism, anthropology, studies in nationalism and ethnicity and post-colonial theory.
Author: Colette Beaune
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 448
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An excellent and fascinating book. . . . A completely fresh rethinking. . . . Once I started it, I became so intrigued that I could not put it down."--John F. Benton, California Institute of Technology
Author: A. Aktar
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-02-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0230297323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNationalism in the Troubled Triangle is the first systematic study of nationalism in Cyprus, Greece and Turkey from a comparative perspective. Bringing scholars from Greece, Turkey and both sides of Cyprus (and beyond) together, the book provides a critical account of nation-building processes and nationalist politics in all three countries.
