Power and the Nation in European HistoryLen Scales, Oliver Zimmer Cambridge University Press, 9 de juny 2005 - 389 pàgines Few would doubt the central importance of the nation in the making and unmaking of modern political communities. The long history of 'the nation' as a concept and as a name for various sorts of 'imagined community' likewise commands such acceptance. But when did the nation first become a fundamental political factor? This is a question which has been, and continues to be, far more sharply contested. A deep rift still separates 'modernist' perspectives, which view the political nation as a phenomenon limited to modern, industrialised societies, from the views of scholars concerned with the pre-industrial world who insist, often vehemently, that nations were central to pre-modern political life also. This book engages with these questions by drawing on the expertise of leading medieval, early modern and modern historians. |
Continguts
Were there nations in Antiquity? | 33 |
The idea of the nation as a political community | 54 |
continuity | 67 |
the early English experience | 105 |
being English in medieval Ireland | 143 |
The state and Russian national identity | 195 |
identity regionality and | 232 |
The nation in the age of revolution | 248 |
Enemies of the Nation? Nobles foreigners and the constitution | 275 |
Nation nations and power in Italy c 17001915 | 295 |
Political institutions and nationhood in Germany 17501914 | 315 |
Nation nationalism and power in Switzerland c 17601900 | 333 |
Britain c 1800c 1914 | 354 |
Index | 370 |
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Pàgina 344 - Liah Greenfeld, Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1992; Eric J.
Pàgina 33 - Pharaoh only ; and the king of Ethiopia. The main events of our fifty years' period are the conquest of Samaria, the capital of the kingdom of Israel, by the Assyrians in 721 BC, and the failure of Sennacherib to possess himself of Jerusalem in 701. Of the final scope of Isaiah's ideas, so far as we can apprehend it, and of the character and grandeur of his prophetic deliverances, I do not here speak.
Pàgina 230 - Act for the better propagation and preaching of the Gospel in Wales, for the ejecting scandalous ministers and schoolmasters, and redress of some grievances — to continue in force for three years.
Pàgina 315 - In other words, men and women decide who they are by reference to who and what they are not. Once confronted with an obviously alien 'Them', an otherwise diverse community can become a reassuring or merely desperate 'Us'.
Pàgina 119 - Plantagenets ; but without them, if you will consider well, what had it ever been ? A gluttonous race of Jutes and Angles, capable of no grand combinations ; lumbering about in potbellied equanimity ; not dreaming of heroic toil and silence and endurance, such as leads to the high places of this Universe, and the golden mountain-tops where dwell the Spirits of the Dawn. Their very ballotboxes and suffrages, what they call their "Liberty...
Pàgina 38 - For a discussion of this, see Adrian Hastings, The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), esp. pp. 57-9. This appropriation was true also of Quakers, and traditionalists decried the erosion of the outward signs of that 'peculiarity'.
Pàgina 246 - ... occasion should arise, but that I shall be able to prove it so. To the argument founded on this spiritless and pitiful position, time has given an answer, by bringing forth that stupendous event, the Revolution in France, an event which I do but name, for who is he that can praise it as it merits? Where is the dread now of absolute power, or the arbitrary nod of the monarch in France? Where is the intolerance of Popish bigotry? The rights of man are at least as well understood there as here,...
Pàgina 56 - Nationalism itself can be defined as an ideological movement for the attainment and maintenance of autonomy, unity and identity on behalf of a population deemed by some of its members to constitute an actual or potential 'nation'.
Pàgina 39 - Horowitz, Ethnic Groups in Conflict (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985), 56. 67. Schama, Landscape and Memory, 15. 68. Katherine Verdery, "Nationalism, Postsocialism, and Space in Eastern Europe,
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What Is a Nation?: Europe 1789-1914 Timothy Baycroft,Mark Hewitson Previsualització no disponible - 2006 |