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The great Partition : the making of India and Pakistan
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ISBN: 9780300120783 Year: 2007 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

Where nation-states come from
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ISBN: 1283379937 9786613379931 1400842964 9781400842964 9781283379939 9780691127286 069112728X 9780691134673 0691134677 Year: 2007 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey

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To date, the world can lay claim to little more than 190 sovereign independent entities recognized as nation-states, while by some estimates there may be up to eight hundred more nation-state projects underway and seven to eight thousand potential projects. Why do a few such endeavors come to fruition while most fail? Standard explanations have pointed to national awakenings, nationalist mobilizations, economic efficiency, military prowess, or intervention by the great powers. Where Nation-States Come From provides a compelling alternative account, one that incorporates an in-depth examination of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and their successor states. Philip Roeder argues that almost all successful nation-state projects have been associated with a particular political institution prior to independence: the segment-state, a jurisdiction defined by both human and territorial boundaries. Independence represents an administrative upgrade of a segment-state. Before independence, segmental institutions shape politics on the periphery of an existing sovereign state. Leaders of segment-states are thus better positioned than other proponents of nation-state endeavors to forge locally hegemonic national identities. Before independence, segmental institutions also shape the politics between the periphery and center of existing states. Leaders of segment-states are hence also more able to challenge the status quo and to induce the leaders of the existing state to concede independence. Roeder clarifies the mechanisms that link such institutions to outcomes, and demonstrates that these relationships have prevailed around the world through most of the age of nationalism.


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Nations, states, and violence
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ISBN: 1435617711 9786611145439 0191527882 1281145432 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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A powerfully argued and trenchant examination of the sources and consequences of nationalism by one of the world's leading scholars in the field. - ;Nations, States, and Violence presents a revisionist view of the sources of nationalism, the relationship of the nation to culture, and the implications of nationalism and cultural heterogeneity for the future of the nation-state. It accepts the now-standard view that national identities are not inherited traits but constructed communities in order to serve political ends. But the resulting national identities do not emerge from some metaphorical

Where nation-states come from : institutional change in the age of nationalism.
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ISBN: 9780691127286 069112728X Year: 2007 Publisher: Princeton Princeton university press

A world history of nineteenth-century archaeology : nationalism, colonialism, and the past
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ISBN: 0191917400 1281149608 9786611149604 0191527165 1435621697 9780191527166 9780199217175 0199217173 9780191917400 9781281149602 6611149600 9781435621695 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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This history of archaeology during the 19th century encompasses all its fields from the origins of humanity to the medieval period, and all areas of the world. In addition, this is placed within the framework of contemporary political events, focusing upon the ideologies of nationalism and imperialism.

Knowing Southeast Asian subjects
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ISBN: 0295804254 9780295804255 9780295986838 0295986832 9971693666 9789971693664 Year: 2007 Publisher: Seattle : Singapore : University of Washington Press ; In association with NUS Press,

The prospects for liberal nationalism in post-Leninist states
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ISBN: 0271049111 0271034947 9780271034942 0271032596 9780271032597 9780271049113 Year: 2007 Publisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press,

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The fall of communism in the Soviet Union led many to hope and expect that liberal democracy would immediately take root across postcommunist states, marking what Francis Fukuyama famously referred to as the "end of history." Since then, however, a very different picture has emerged, most notably in the form of nationalist sentiments that have steered many postcommunist countries in an illiberal direction, even in regimes committed to market reforms and formally democratic institutions.Cheng Chen examines this phenomenon in comparative perspective, showing that the different pathways of nation-building under Leninism affected the character of Leninist regimes and, later, the differential prospects for liberal democracy in the postcommunist era. In China and Russia, Chen shows, liberalism and nationalism were more difficult to reconcile because Leninism was indigenous and had a more significant impact on nation-building. In Hungary and Romania, by contrast, Leninism was a foreign import and had less of an effect on traditional national identity. As we witness the struggle to establish democracy in places such as Afghanistan and Iraq, a study that examines the salience of historical legacies seems particularly timely.

Nationalism and ethnosymbolism
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ISBN: 9780748629350 0748629351 1280715693 9781280715693 0748621121 9780748621125 9780748621125 0748621121 074862113X 9780748621132 9786610715695 Year: 2007 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press

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Ethnosymbolism offers a distinct and innovative approach to the study of nations and nationalism. It focuses on the role of ethnic myths, historical memories, symbols and traditions in the creation and maintenance of the collective identity of modern nations. This book explores the different aspects of the ethnosymbolic approach to the study of ethnicity, nationality and nationalism. Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism first introduces the main theoretical considerations that have arisen in nationalism studies in the past two decades. It then presents a collection of case studies covering music...

Conflicted antiquities : Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian modernity
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ISBN: 9780822339922 9780822339755 0822339757 0822339927 9786613035561 1283035561 0822390396 Year: 2007 Publisher: Durham, NC : Duke University Press,

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A cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth.

A world history of nineteenth-century archaeology : nationalism, colonialism, and the past
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ISBN: 9780199217175 0199217173 Year: 2007 Volume: *2 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] Oxford University Press

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