Being national is the condition of our times, yet never before has the idea of the nation been under such scrutiny. With the collapse of the bi-polar world of the Cold War, there has also been a parallel rise in the subnational--the claims of local, regional, and ethnic minorities--economic globalization, American cultural hegemony, international migration, and diasporization. In Becoming National Eley and Suny, two of the foremost authorities on nationalism, acknowledge these changes by combinging a diverse selection of readings with a unifying introduction and instructive headnotes, creating a text that moves the discussion of nationalism onto a new and contemporary level. Each group of readings is introduced by a brief historical essay, and the readings are fully annotated. Emphasizing the recent intellectual advances and influential ideas of Miroslav Hroch, Benedict Anderson, Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall, Lauren Berlant, and a host of others, this book underscores the nineteenth and twentieth century nationalist theories to show not only where scholars of nationalism have been but where they are going. Drawing on the strengths of recent cultural studies, including race and gender identities, the editors show that though politics is the ground upon which nationalism is constructed, culture is the terrain on which it is elaborated and fought over.
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Geoff Eley is at University of Michigan. Ronald Grigor Suny is at University of Chicago.
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Born in a peasant family in France, Ernest Renan supported himself through his adult life from his voluminous philosophical and historical writings and the sayings of his sister. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
demotic ethnies, socialist moral majority, lateral ethnie, bureaucratic incorporation, infantile citizenship, new national movements, metis children, fictive ethnicity, tribal composition, national symbolic, common legal rights, town refugees, native milieu, national agitation, ethnic core, soft boundaries, interior frontiers, folk high schools, national fantasy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Born in a peasant family in France, Ernest Renan supported himself through his adult life from his voluminous philosophical and historical writings and the sayings of his sister. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
demotic ethnies, socialist moral majority, lateral ethnie, bureaucratic incorporation, infantile citizenship, new national movements, metis children, fictive ethnicity, tribal composition, national symbolic, common legal rights, town refugees, native milieu, national agitation, ethnic core, soft boundaries, interior frontiers, folk high schools, national fantasy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Latin America, United States, Soviet Union, Cambridge University Press, Algeria Unveiled, South Africa, Black Skin, White Masks, University of California Press, Benedict Anderson, Comparative Studies, Stanford University Press, University of Chicago Press, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, Santos Luzardo, Netherlands Indies, Language Planning, Stuart Hall, Tweede Trek, Cornell University Press, Etienne Balibar, New German Critique, Sun Yat-sen New!
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- The Ethnic Origins of Nations by Anthony D. Smith on 5 pages
- Nationalism and the State by John Breuilly on 4 pages
- Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe by Miroslav Hroch in Front Matter, page 21, and page 200
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- Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society) by Susan L. Burns on 5 pages
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- Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics by Beth Baron in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- American Sexual Character: Sex, Gender, and National Identity in the Kinsey Reports by Miriam G. Reumann in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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