European Nations

Author : Miroslav Hroch
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781688342

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European Nations by Miroslav Hroch Pdf

One of the world’s leading theorists of nationalism offers a new synthesis In the history of modern political thought, no topics have attracted as much attention as nationalism, nation-formation, and patriotism. A mass of literature has grown around these vexed issues, muddying the waters, and a level-headed clarification is long overdue. Rather than adding another theory of nationalism to this maelstrom of ideas, Miroslav Hroch has created a remarkable synthesis, integrating apparently competing frameworks into a coherent system that tracks the historical genesis of European nations through the sundry paths of the nation-forming processes of the nineteenth century. Combining a comparative perspective on nation-formation with invaluable theoretical insights, European Nations is essential for anyone who wants to understand the historical roots of Europe’s current political crisis.

Author : Louk Hagendoorn,György Csepeli,Russell Farnen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351938471

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European Nations and Nationalism by Louk Hagendoorn,György Csepeli,Russell Farnen Pdf

This rich source book informs its reader in a comparative perspective about the political and social-economic past and present of fifteen Western, Central and Eastern European countries. This includes the economic and social aspects of the development of the nation state, descriptions of the current political structures and institutions, an account of the types of ethnic composition of the populations, definitions of citizenship and a background to the existing political parties and preferences. The countries involved are: the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands, Belgium, Britain, France, Spain and Italy. The authors are scholars in the fields of nationalism and ethnic conflict and they were invited to write their country chapters along the lines of a common format, paying special attention to the notion of state and nation building processes, citizenship definitions and minority issues. This book is a comprehensive reference guide for students and scholars in the fields of social sciences, European studies, history and other related disciplines and generally to those who are interested in the past and present of any one of the large number of countries described.

Author : Hanna Schissler,Yasemin Nuhoğlu Soysal
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 1571815503

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The Nation, Europe, and the World by Hanna Schissler,Yasemin Nuhoğlu Soysal Pdf

Textbooks in history, geography and the social sciences provide important insights into the ways in which nation-states project themselves. Based on case studies of France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Greece, Turkey Bulgaria, Russia, and the United States, this volume shows the role that concepts of space and time play in the narration of 'our country' and the wider world in which it is located. It explores ways in which in western European countries the nation is reinterpreted through European lenses to replace national approaches in the writing of history. On the other hand, in an effort to overcome Eurocentric views,'world history' has gained prominence in the United States. Yet again, East European countries, coming recently out of a transnational political union, have their own issues with the concept of nation to contend with. These recent developments in the field of textbooks and curricula open up new and fascinating perspectives on the changing patterns of the re-positioning process of nation-states in West as well as Eastern Europe and the United States in an age of growing importance of transnational organizations and globalization.

Author : Philip T. Hoffman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691175843

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Why Did Europe Conquer the World? by Philip T. Hoffman Pdf

The startling economic and political answers behind Europe's historical dominance Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations—such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution—fail to provide answers. Arguing instead for the pivotal role of economic and political history, Hoffman shows that if certain variables had been different, Europe would have been eclipsed, and another power could have become master of the world. Hoffman sheds light on the two millennia of economic, political, and historical changes that set European states on a distinctive path of development, military rivalry, and war. This resulted in astonishingly rapid growth in Europe's military sector, and produced an insurmountable lead in gunpowder technology. The consequences determined which states established colonial empires or ran the slave trade, and even which economies were the first to industrialize. Debunking traditional arguments, Why Did Europe Conquer the World? reveals the startling reasons behind Europe's historic global supremacy.

Author : Alan S. Milward
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 041521629X

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The European Rescue of the Nation-state by Alan S. Milward Pdf

Newly revised and updated, this second edition is the classic economic and political account of the origins of the European Community book offers a challenging interpretation of the history of the western European state and European integration.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs,United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Communist countries
ISBN : LOC:0009957494A

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Captive European Nations by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs,United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe Pdf

Author : Joachim Alexander Koops,Giulia Tercovich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Peacekeeping forces
ISBN : 1138503320

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European Approaches to United Nations Peacekeeping by Joachim Alexander Koops,Giulia Tercovich Pdf

This edited volume provides a comprehensive analysis of European approaches to United Nations peacekeeping by assessing past practice, present obstacles and future potentials related to nine core European countries' contributions to blue helmet operations. By providing in-depth case studies on Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom, this book offers an evaluation of European approaches as well as a wide range of facilitating and constraining factors related to the above mentioned countries' future involvement in UN peacekeeping. The book places particular emphasis on the recent involvement of European countries in the UN operation in Mali (MINUSMA) and explores to what extent this experience might lead to further marked increases of European supplies of troops and capabilities and thus a broader 'European return' to UN peacekeeping. Each chapter offers an up-to-date case study on key countries' policies, challenges and opportunities for a stronger re-engagement in UN Peacekeeping It provides a comprehensive analysis of the main challenges and concrete ways ahead for overcoming institutional, political, financial and military obstacles (both at European capitals and within the UN system) on the path towards a stronger re-engagement of European troop contributing countries in the field of UN Peacekeeping. Furthermore, each chapter includes a set of policy-relevant recommendations for future ways ahead. The chapters in this book were originally published in International Peacekeeping.

Author : Robert C. Austin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030845438

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A History of Central Europe by Robert C. Austin Pdf

This textbook offers a survey of the history of Central Europe since 1848, from the ‘Springtime of Nations’, through the world wars and communist period, to NATO and EU membership. With an emphasis on nation-building, it gives the reader a better understanding of not just political history but also of the region’s economic development and of everyday life. The book brings the reader right up to the present, considering contemporary issues such as the impact of the 2015 refugee crisis, migration out of Central Europe, the weakening of democratic institutions and the re-emergence of nationalism. Throughout, it offers fresh perspectives, gives agency to Central Europe, and pays attention to the ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity of the region. This is essential reading for students taking courses on Central/East-Central Europe. It is also suitable for courses on 19th and 20th Century Europe, or for anyone with an interest in the region.

Author : K. Laatikainen,K. Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230503731

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The European Union at the United Nations by K. Laatikainen,K. Smith Pdf

This is the first book to examine in-depth the EU's relationship with the UN and to analyze critically the EU's contribution to 'effective multilateralism'. The contributors show that the EU most often fails to make the UN as effective as it should be in addressing global challenges.

Author : Rajendra A. Chitnis,Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen,Rhian Atkin,Zoran Milutinović
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781789620528

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Translating the Literatures of Small European Nations by Rajendra A. Chitnis,Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen,Rhian Atkin,Zoran Milutinović Pdf

The most detailed and wide-ranging comparative study to date of how European literatures written in less well known languages try, through translation, to reach the wider world, rejecting the predominant narrative of tragic marginalization with case studies of endeavour and innovation from nineteenth-century Swedish women's writing to twenty-first-century Polish fantasy.

Author : Dr. Liliya Berezhnaya,Heidi Hein-Kircher
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781789201482

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Rampart Nations by Dr. Liliya Berezhnaya,Heidi Hein-Kircher Pdf

The “bulwark” or antemurale myth—whereby a region is imagined as a defensive barrier against a dangerous Other—has been a persistent strand in the development of Eastern European nationalisms. While historical studies of the topic have typically focused on clashes and overlaps between sociocultural and religious formations, Rampart Nations delves deeper to uncover the mutual transfers and multi-sided national and interconfessional conflicts that helped to spread bulwark myths through Europe’s eastern periphery over several centuries. Ranging from art history to theology to political science, this volume offers new ways of understanding the political, social, and religious forces that continue to shape identity in Eastern Europe.

Author : Tatiana Kuzmic
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810133990

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Adulterous Nations by Tatiana Kuzmic Pdf

In Adulterous Nations, Tatiana Kuzmic enlarges our perspective on the nineteenth-century novel of adultery, showing how it often served as a metaphor for relationships between the imperialistic and the colonized. In the context of the long-standing practice of gendering nations as female, the novels under discussion here—George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest, and Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, along with August Šenoa’s The Goldsmith’s Gold and Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Quo Vadis—can be understood as depicting international crises on the scale of the nuclear family. In each example, an outsider figure is responsible for the disruption experienced by the family. Kuzmic deftly argues that the hopes, anxieties, and interests of European nations during this period can be discerned in the destabilizing force of adultery. Reading the work of Šenoa and Sienkiewicz, from Croatia and Poland, respectively, Kuzmic illuminates the relationship between the literature of dominant nations and that of the semicolonized territories that posed a threat to them. Ultimately, Kuzmic’s study enhances our understanding of not only these five novels but nineteenth-century European literature more generally.

Author : J. Holland (John Holland) Rose
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1290612757

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The Developement of the European Nations, 1870-1914 by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Mikael Af Malmborg
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1845205790

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The Meaning of Europe by Mikael Af Malmborg Pdf

Mention the word Europe in today's society and you are greeted with a range of responses, from impassioned debate, to scepticism and outright hostility. Yet long before the emergence of the modern European Union, the concept of Europe played a vital role in the creation of national identity. This book considers the wealth of contemporary and historical attitudes towards Europe and how these vary both within and between nation-states. Why are some countries 'Europhiles' whilst others are 'Europho bic'? How has Europe alternately been perceived as a threat to local culture and identity or as the core of nation-building? Why are individual responses to Europe so diverse? Comparing and contrasting experiences from twelve very different countries, the authors explore the multitude of ways in which established national discourses are reconciled with an emerging identity within the EU. In doing so, this book makes an important contribution to what has proved to be one of the most controversial and heated debates of our time.

Author : A. Ichijo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230313897

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Europe, Nations and Modernity by A. Ichijo Pdf

This work offers a fresh perspective to the study of 'Europe' by placing the discussion of 'What is Europe?' and 'What is it to be European?', in a wider context of the study of modernity through a collection of nine case studies.