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Fatherlands : state-building and nationhood in nineteenth-century Germany
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ISBN: 0521793130 Year: 2001 Volume: *14 Publisher: Cambridge New York Oakleigh Cambridge University Press

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Fatherlands is an original study of the nature of identity in nineteenth-century Germany, which has crucial implications for the understanding of nationalism, German unification and the German nation state in the modern era. The book approaches these questions from a new and important angle, that of the non-national territorial state. It explores the nature and impact of state-building in non-Prussian Germany. The issues covered range from railway construction and German industrialisation, to the modernisation of German monarchy, the emergence of a free press, the development of a modern educational system, and the role of monuments, museums and public festivities. Fatherlands draws principally on extensive primary research focusing on the three kingdoms of Hanover, Saxony and Wrttemberg. It is an attempt to 'join up the dots' of German history - moving beyond isolated local, regional and state-based studies to a general understanding of the state formation process in Germany.


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Écrire l'histoire de l'Amérique latine XIXe-XXe siècles
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ISBN: 2271059534 9782271059536 Year: 2001 Publisher: Paris CNRS

Deutsche Westforschung : Ideologie und Praxis im 20. Jahrhundert.
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ISBN: 3931982238 9783931982232 Year: 2001 Volume: Bd. 4 Publisher: Leipzig Akademische Verlagsanstalt

Nationalism and beyond : introducing moral debate about values.
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ISBN: 9639241121 2821814992 9633860083 Year: 2001 Publisher: Budapest CEU press

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"There is nothing quite like this book in the contemporary literature. It fills a salient vacuum and would make a fine contribution to a number of debates." - Philip Pettit, Professor of Social and Political Theory, Australian National University, Canberra. "The book offers high-level philosophical analysis of a topical issue, that of nationalism. The author takes a partisan, cosmopolitan position towards his subject. His main aim is to show that cultural isolationism, hostility towards the neighbours etc.... Are logical consequences of nationalism. " - János Kis, Professor of Political Philosophy, Central European University

Nations out of empires : European nationalism and the transformation of Asia.
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ISBN: 0333921496 Year: 2001 Publisher: Basingstoke Palgrave

Social identities in revolutionary Russia
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ISBN: 0333929470 Year: 2001 Publisher: Basingstoke Palgrave

The Saffron Wave
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ISBN: 0691006709 0691006717 1282457853 1400823056 9786612457852 1400811988 9781400823055 9781282457850 1400803411 9780691006703 9780691006710 Year: 2001 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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The rise of strong nationalist and religious movements in postcolonial and newly democratic countries alarms many Western observers. In The Saffron Wave, Thomas Hansen turns our attention to recent events in the world's largest democracy, India. Here he analyzes Indian receptivity to the right-wing Hindu nationalist party and its political wing, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which claims to create a polity based on "ancient" Hindu culture. Rather than interpreting Hindu nationalism as a mainly religious phenomenon, or a strictly political movement, Hansen places the BJP within the context of the larger transformations of democratic governance in India. Hansen demonstrates that democratic transformation has enabled such developments as political mobilization among the lower castes and civil protections for religious minorities. Against this backdrop, the Hindu nationalist movement has successfully articulated the anxieties and desires of the large and amorphous Indian middle class. A form of conservative populism, the movement has attracted not only privileged groups fearing encroachment on their dominant positions but also "plebeian" and impoverished groups seeking recognition around a majoritarian rhetoric of cultural pride, order, and national strength. Combining political theory, ethnographic material, and sensitivity to colonial and postcolonial history, The Saffron Wave offers fresh insights into Indian politics and, by focusing on the links between democracy and ethnic majoritarianism, advances our understanding of democracy in the postcolonial world.

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