The Art Of Nation Building

Author : H.V. Nelles
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442658974

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In 1908 Canada celebrated its 300th anniversary – the tercentenary of Champlain's founding of Quebec City. In two glorious weeks of parades, ceremonies, balls, and festivities, Canadians commemorated their history in a spectacle that would not be surpassed until the centennial of 1967. The climax of the 1908 celebration was an historical pageant in which 4000 sumptuously costumed citizens re-enacted classic events in Canada's history. Canada's leading painters were also there to capture these memorable scenes for posterity. The past was being celebrated, but with the present and the future in mind. In The Art of Nation-Building, H.V. Nelles uses contemporary literary techniques to convey the scope, colour, and intensity of the tercentenary from various perspectives. Drawing on the intimate diaries and letters of leading social and political figures, he leads us behind the scenes, disclosing the politics of memory, the theatrics of history, and the making of a modern monarchy. Nelles reveals what we actually do when we commemorate, how we use the past, and the multivocal character of mass celebration This richly illustrated, thought-provoking interpretation of public celebrations offers a novel perspective on Quebec and on the upcoming celebration of the millennium. Winner of two prestigious prizes: the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize (CHA) and the Prix Lionel-Groulx (IHAF).

Author : Henry Vivian Nelles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Canada
ISBN : OCLC:1012173805

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Author : H. V. Nelles
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802084316

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Draws on the intimate diaries and letters of leading social and political figures to look behind the scenes of the pageantry of the 1908 anniversary of the founding of Quebec City, disclosing the politics of memory and the theatrics of history.

Author : Keith W. Mines
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781640122826

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Why Nation-Building Matters by Keith W. Mines Pdf

Why Nation-Building Matters establishes a framework for building security forces, economic development, and political consolidation that blends soft and hard power into a deployable and effective package.

Author : Rachel Tsang,Eric Taylor Woods
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134592081

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The Cultural Politics of Nationalism and Nation-Building by Rachel Tsang,Eric Taylor Woods Pdf

Rituals and performances are a key theme in the study of nations and nationalism. With the aim of stimulating further research in this area, this book explores, debates and evaluates the role of rituals and performances in the emergence, persistence and transformation of nations, nationalisms and national identity. The chapters comprising this book investigate a diverse array of contemporary and historical phenomena relating to the symbolic life of nations, from the Yasukuni Shrine in Japan to the Louvre in France, written by an interdisciplinary cast of world-renowned and up-and-coming scholars. Each of the contributors has been encouraged to think about how his or her particular approach and methods relates to the others. This has given rise to several recurring debates and themes running through the book over how researchers ought to approach rituals and performances and how they might best be studied. The Cultural Politics of Nationalism and Nation-Building will appeal to students and scholars of ethnicity and nationalism, sociology, political science, anthropology, cultural studies, performance studies, art history and architecture.

Author : Andreas Wimmer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691177380

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Nation Building by Andreas Wimmer Pdf

A new and comprehensive look at the reasons behind successful or failed nation building Nation Building presents bold new answers to an age-old question. Why is national integration achieved in some diverse countries, while others are destabilized by political inequality between ethnic groups, contentious politics, or even separatism and ethnic war? Traversing centuries and continents from early nineteenth-century Europe and Asia to Africa from the turn of the twenty-first century to today, Andreas Wimmer delves into the slow-moving forces that encourage political alliances to stretch across ethnic divides and build national unity. Using datasets that cover the entire world and three pairs of case studies, Wimmer’s theory of nation building focuses on slow-moving, generational processes: the spread of civil society organizations, linguistic assimilation, and the states’ capacity to provide public goods. Wimmer contrasts Switzerland and Belgium to demonstrate how the early development of voluntary organizations enhanced nation building; he examines Botswana and Somalia to illustrate how providing public goods can bring diverse political constituencies together; and he shows that the differences between China and Russia indicate how a shared linguistic space may help build political alliances across ethnic boundaries. Wimmer then reveals, based on the statistical analysis of large-scale datasets, that these mechanisms are at work around the world and explain nation building better than competing arguments such as democratic governance or colonial legacies. He also shows that when political alliances crosscut ethnic divides and when most ethnic communities are represented at the highest levels of government, the general populace will identify with the nation and its symbols, further deepening national political integration. Offering a long-term historical perspective and global outlook, Nation Building sheds important new light on the challenges of political integration in diverse countries.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621968719

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Music Makes the Nation by Anonim Pdf

Author : H. Fuller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137448583

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Building the Ghanaian Nation-State by H. Fuller Pdf

Ghana has always held a position of primacy in the African political and historical imagination, due in no small part to the indelible impression left president Kwame Nkrumah. This study examines the symbolic strategies he used to construct the Ghanaian state through currency, stamps, museums, flags, and other public icons.

Author : Rachel Tsang,Eric Taylor Woods
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134592012

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The Cultural Politics of Nationalism and Nation-Building by Rachel Tsang,Eric Taylor Woods Pdf

Rituals and performances are a key theme in the study of nations and nationalism. With the aim of stimulating further research in this area, this book explores, debates and evaluates the role of rituals and performances in the emergence, persistence and transformation of nations, nationalisms and national identity. The chapters comprising this book investigate a diverse array of contemporary and historical phenomena relating to the symbolic life of nations, from the Yasukuni Shrine in Japan to the Louvre in France, written by an interdisciplinary cast of world-renowned and up-and-coming scholars. Each of the contributors has been encouraged to think about how his or her particular approach and methods relates to the others. This has given rise to several recurring debates and themes running through the book over how researchers ought to approach rituals and performances and how they might best be studied. The Cultural Politics of Nationalism and Nation-Building will appeal to students and scholars of ethnicity and nationalism, sociology, political science, anthropology, cultural studies, performance studies, art history and architecture.

Author : Peter Aronsson,Gabriella Elgenius
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317569145

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National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010 by Peter Aronsson,Gabriella Elgenius Pdf

Europe’s national museums have since their creation been at the centre of on-going nation making processes. National museums negotiate conflicts and contradictions and entrain the community sufficiently to obtain the support of scientists and art connoisseurs, citizens and taxpayers, policy makers, domestic and foreign visitors alike. National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010 assess the national museum as a manifestation of cultural and political desires, rather than that a straightforward representation of the historical facts of a nation. National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010 examines the degree to which national museums have created models and representations of nations, their past, present and future, and proceeds to assess the consequences of such attempts. Revealing how different types of nations and states – former empires, monarchies, republics, pre-modern, modern or post-imperial entities – deploy and prioritise different types of museums (based on art, archaeology, culture and ethnography) in their making, this book constitutes the first comprehensive and comparative perspective on national museums in Europe and their intricate relationship to the making of nations and states.

Author : Patrick Kane
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 1848856040

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The Politics of Art in Modern Egypt by Patrick Kane Pdf

Art and cultural production in Egypt during much of the last hundred years has operated against a backdrop of political crisis and confrontation. Patrick Kane focuses on the turbulent changes of the 1920s to 1960s, when polemical discourse and artistic practice developed against the entrenched and co-opted conservatism of elite and state culture. Radical forms of cultural criticism and dissonance emerged, and this legacy continues to resonate through contemporary activism and dissent. Kane charts the rise of key art movements, like the Egyptian Surrealists and the Contemporary Art Group, and explores their resistance to the Nahda paradigm of elite culture, as well as Nasser's state authoritarianism and nationalist agenda. Through the work of artists and critics like Abd al-Hadi al-Gazzar and Gamal al-Sagini, Kane provides rare insight into the Egyptian cultural and aesthetic experience, and how it has been shaped within a context of political and social conflict.

Author : Karl W. Deutsch,William J. Foltz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Political science
ISBN : OCLC:993421680

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Nation-Building by Karl W. Deutsch,William J. Foltz Pdf

Author : Jennifer Jolly
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781477314227

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Creating Pátzcuaro, Creating Mexico by Jennifer Jolly Pdf

In the 1930s, the artistic and cultural patronage of celebrated Mexican president Lázaro Cárdenas transformed a small Michoacán city, Pátzcuaro, into a popular center for national tourism. Cárdenas commissioned public monuments and archeological excavations; supported new schools, libraries, and a public theater; developed tourism sites and infrastructure, including the Museo de Artes e Industrias Populares; and hired artists to paint murals celebrating regional history, traditions, and culture. The creation of Pátzcuaro was formative for Mexico; not only did it provide an early model for regional economic and cultural development, but it also helped establish some of Mexico's most enduring national myths, rituals, and institutions. In Creating Pátzcuaro, Creating Mexico, Jennifer Jolly argues that Pátzcuaro became a microcosm of cultural power during the 1930s and that we find the foundations of modern Mexico in its creation. Her extensive historical and archival research reveals how Cárdenas and the artists and intellectuals who worked with him used cultural patronage as a guise for radical modernization in the region. Jolly demonstrates that the Pátzcuaro project helped define a new modern body politic for Mexico, in which the population was asked to emulate Cárdenas by touring the country and seeing and embracing its land, history, and people. Ultimately, by offering Mexicans a means to identify and engage with power and privilege, the creation of Pátzcuaro placed art and tourism at the center of Mexico's postrevolutionary nation building project.

Author : René Grotenhuis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9462982198

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Nation-building as Necessary Effort in Fragile States by René Grotenhuis Pdf

René Grotenhuis analyses policies intended to bring stability to fragile states and shows how they ignore the question of what gives people a sense of belonging to a nation-state.

Author : Harris Mylonas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139619813

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The Politics of Nation-Building by Harris Mylonas Pdf

What drives a state's choice to assimilate, accommodate or exclude ethnic groups within its territory? In this innovative work on the international politics of nation-building, Harris Mylonas argues that a state's nation-building policies toward non-core groups - individuals perceived as an ethnic group by the ruling elite of a state - are influenced by both its foreign policy goals and its relations with the external patrons of these groups. Through a detailed study of the Balkans, Mylonas shows that how a state treats a non-core group within its own borders is determined largely by whether the state's foreign policy is revisionist or cleaves to the international status quo, and whether it is allied or in rivalry with that group's external patrons. Mylonas injects international politics into the study of nation-building, building a bridge between international relations and the comparative politics of ethnicity and nationalism.