The Modernist Nation

Author : Ahmet Ersoy,Maciej G¢rny,Vangelis Kechriotis
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789637326615

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Modernism: The Creation of Nation-States by Ahmet Ersoy,Maciej G¢rny,Vangelis Kechriotis Pdf

Notwithstanding the advantages of physical power, the struggle for survival among societies is not merely a matter of serial armed clashes but of the nation's spiritual resources that in the end always decide upon the victory. In Europe, there indeed exist independent countries, insignificant from the point of view of the entire civilization, and born by sheer coincidence, yet, this coincidence, this fancy, or diplomatic ploy that created them can just as easily bring them to an end---the nations that count in the political calculations are only the enlightened ones. Therefore, our nation should not merely grow in power, strengthen its character, and foster in people the feeling of love for homeland, but also---inasmuch as it is possible---breath the fresh breeze of humanity's general progress, feed it to the nation, absorb its creative energy. Until now, we have trusted and lived only in the weary conditions, conditions devoid of health-giving elements---now, as a result the nation's heart beats too slowly and its mind works too tediously. We ought to open our windows to Europe, to the wind of continental change and allow it to air our sultry home, since as not all health comes from the inside, not all disease comes from the outside.

Author : Carolin Viktorin,Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht,Annika Estner,Marcel K. Will
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785339240

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Nation Branding in Modern History by Carolin Viktorin,Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht,Annika Estner,Marcel K. Will Pdf

A recent coinage within international relations, “nation branding” designates the process of highlighting a country’s positive characteristics for promotional purposes, using techniques similar to those employed in marketing and public relations. Nation Branding in Modern History takes an innovative approach to illuminating this contested concept, drawing on fascinating case studies in the United States, China, Poland, Suriname, and many other countries, from the nineteenth century to the present. It supplements these empirical contributions with a series of historiographical essays and analyses of key primary documents, making for a rich and multivalent investigation into the nexus of cultural marketing, self-representation, and political power.

Author : J. Rex
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230375604

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Ethnic Minorities in the Modern Nation State by J. Rex Pdf

The author deals with the problem in political theory of how modern nation states must be structured in order to realise the two separate goals of equality of opportunity and the recognition of cultural diversity between groups. Subsequent chapters argue against a number of West European critics for a society of this type and the concept of multiculturalism is developed as it is applied in other contexts in Eastern Europe and North America.

Author : Nancy P. Appelbaum,Anne S. Macpherson,Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807862315

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Race and Nation in Modern Latin America by Nancy P. Appelbaum,Anne S. Macpherson,Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt Pdf

This collection brings together innovative historical work on race and national identity in Latin America and the Caribbean and places this scholarship in the context of interdisciplinary and transnational discussions regarding race and nation in the Americas. Moving beyond debates about whether ideologies of racial democracy have actually served to obscure discrimination, the book shows how notions of race and nationhood have varied over time across Latin America's political landscapes. Framing the themes and questions explored in the volume, the editors' introduction also provides an overview of the current state of the interdisciplinary literature on race and nation-state formation. Essays on the postindependence period in Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, and Peru consider how popular and elite racial constructs have developed in relation to one another and to processes of nation building. Contributors also examine how ideas regarding racial and national identities have been gendered and ask how racialized constructions of nationhood have shaped and limited the citizenship rights of subordinated groups. The contributors are Sueann Caulfield, Sarah C. Chambers, Lillian Guerra, Anne S. Macpherson, Aims McGuinness, Gerardo Renique, James Sanders, Alexandra Minna Stern, and Barbara Weinstein.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271047208

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Documenting Spain: Artists, Exhibition Culture, and the Modern Nation, 1929Ð1939 by Anonim Pdf

The news media have given us potent demonstrations of the ambiguity of ostensibly truthful representations of public events. Jordana Mendelson uses this ambiguity as a framework for the study of Spanish visual culture from 1929 to 1939--a decade marked, on the one hand, by dictatorship, civil war, and Franco's rise to power and, on the other, by a surge in the production of documentaries of various types, from films and photographs to international exhibitions. Mendelson begins with an examination of El Pueblo Español, a model Spanish village featured at the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona. She then discusses Buñuel's and Dalí's documentary films, relating them not only to French Surrealism but also to issues of rural tradition in the formation of regional and national identities. Her highly original book concludes with a discussion of the 1937 Spanish Pavilion, where Picasso's famed painting of the Fascist bombing of a Basque town--Guernica--was exhibited along with monumental photomurals by Josep Renau. Based upon years of archival research, Mendelson's book opens a new perspective on the cultural politics of a turbulent era in modern Spain. It explores the little-known yet rich intersection between avant-garde artists and government institutions. It shows as well the surprising extent to which Spanish modernity was fashioned through dialogue between the seemingly opposed fields of urban and rural, fine art, and mass culture.

Author : Joshua A. Fogel
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812238204

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The Teleology of the Modern Nation-State by Joshua A. Fogel Pdf

Although we may be aware that China and Japan were not nation-states until relatively recently, we still speak and write about Han dynasty China or Jomon Japan. And almost all historians refer to prehistoric China or Japan. Thus imposing the national story on the local, the authors contend, harms the historical record.

Author : Edward Weisband,Courtney I P Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317254102

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Political Culture and the Making of Modern Nation-States by Edward Weisband,Courtney I P Thomas Pdf

This book focuses on transformations of political culture from times past to future-present. It defines the meaning of political culture and explores the cultural values and institutions of kinship communities and dynastic intermediaries, including chiefdoms and early states. It systematically examines the rise and gradual universalization of modern sovereign nation-states. Contemporary debates concerning nationality, nationalism, citizenship, and hyphenated identities are engaged. The authors recount the making of political culture in the American nation-state and look at the processes of internal colonialism in the American experience, examining how major ethnic, sectarian, racial, and other distinctions arose and congealed into social and cultural categories. The book concludes with a study of the Holocaust, genocide, crimes against humanity, and the political cultures of violation in post-colonial Rwanda and in racialized ethno-political conflicts in various parts of the world. Struggles over legitimacy in nation-building and state-building are at the heart of this new take on the important role of political culture.

Author : Michael Soto
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-18
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780817313920

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The Modernist Nation by Michael Soto Pdf

A fresh look at American literary modernism.

Author : Philipp Ther
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781782383031

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The Dark Side of Nation-States by Philipp Ther Pdf

Why was there such a far-reaching consensus concerning the utopian goal of national homogeneity in the first half of the twentieth century? Ethnic cleansing is analyzed here as a result of the formation of democratic nation-states, the international order based on them, and European modernity in general. Almost all mass-scale population removals were rationally and precisely organized and carried out in cold blood, with revenge, hatred and other strong emotions playing only a minor role. This book not only considers the majority of population removals which occurred in Eastern Europe, but is also an encompassing, comparative study including Western Europe, interrogating the motivations of Western statesmen and their involvement in large-scale population removals. It also reaches beyond the European continent and considers the reverberations of colonial rule and ethnic cleansing in the former British colonies.

Author : Alain Dieckhoff
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0231127669

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The Invention of a Nation by Alain Dieckhoff Pdf

A comprehensive overview of the various ideologies that constitute Zionism, ranging from Marxist-Zionism to National Religious Zionism to that of the far-right Abba Achimeir. This book makes explicit the debt the Zionists owed to French thinkers and European ideologues, notably those associated with the French Revolution and the Enlightenment.

Author : Simon Wendt,Pablo Dominguez Andersen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137536105

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Masculinities and the Nation in the Modern World by Simon Wendt,Pablo Dominguez Andersen Pdf

Masculinities and the Nation in the Modern World sheds new light on the interrelationship between gender and the nation, focusing on the role of masculinities in various processes of nation-building in the modern world between 1800 and the 1960s.

Author : Anthony D. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Nationalism
ISBN : OCLC:501338539

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Nationalism and Modernism by Anthony D. Smith Pdf

Author : Lotte Jensen
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789048530649

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The roots of nationalism by Lotte Jensen Pdf

This collection brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to offer perspectives on national identity formation in various European contexts between 1600 and 1815. Contributors challenge the dichotomy between modernists and traditionalists in nationalism studies through an emphasis on continuity rather than ruptures in the shaping of European nations in the period, while also offering an overview of current debates in the field and case studies on a number of topics, including literature, historiography, and cartography.

Author : Edward Weisband,Courtney I P Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317254096

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Political Culture and the Making of Modern Nation-States by Edward Weisband,Courtney I P Thomas Pdf

This book focuses on transformations of political culture from times past to future-present. It defines the meaning of political culture and explores the cultural values and institutions of kinship communities and dynastic intermediaries, including chiefdoms and early states. It systematically examines the rise and gradual universalization of modern sovereign nation-states. Contemporary debates concerning nationality, nationalism, citizenship, and hyphenated identities are engaged. The authors recount the making of political culture in the American nation-state and look at the processes of internal colonialism in the American experience, examining how major ethnic, sectarian, racial, and other distinctions arose and congealed into social and cultural categories. The book concludes with a study of the Holocaust, genocide, crimes against humanity, and the political cultures of violation in post-colonial Rwanda and in racialized ethno-political conflicts in various parts of the world. Struggles over legitimacy in nation-building and state-building are at the heart of this new take on the important role of political culture.

Author : S. N. Godfrey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0802083943

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The Shifting Foundations of Modern Nation-states by S. N. Godfrey Pdf

Nation-states today are under pressure from opposite directions. In Western Europe, they are being challenged by the call of assimilation into a larger supra-national polity. Elsewhere, as in Southeastern Europe, nation-states are being challenged by separatist forces from within, demanding independence or self-determination for particular ethnic groups. In either instance, the ultimate aim is not simply the breaking of bonds but rather a realignment of belonging. When the prospect of prosperity and the good life requires an adjustment of national identities and alliances, old myths and new tales alike are mobilized in the effort. People's choices of belonging are flexible and often blatantly pragmatic. Some will never renounce their original 'nation,' while others gladly assume two or three national identities in a lifetime, all of them with a deeply felt commitment. In The Shifting Foundations of Modern Nation-States, Sima Godfrey and Frank Unger have gathered together a distinguished, multidisciplinary group of authors to discuss national myths from Europe, North America, and Asia. Just as the plurality of nations implies diverse voices and distinct narratives, the authors, coming from different disciplines and backgrounds, represent multiple discourses on the theme of nationhood.