| Description |
xiv, 223 pages ; 20 cm |
| Series |
Fontana movements and ideas |
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Fontana movements and ideas.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. how modern is the nation? fact of history or modern myth? -- 2. is nationalism statist? the nation as a cultural project -- 3. the contemporary religious revival: a challenge to the nation-state? -- 4. the USSR 1991: fall of the last empire, failure of communist modernization, or warning for the west? -- 5. the end of the European nation-state? -- 6. pioneers of post-nationalism or insecure parvenus? the cultural politics of new world societies |
| Summary |
The text outlines existing thinking on nationalism. It then examines the subject and its challenges if these settings: the Islamic revival in the Middle East; the collapse of the Soviet Union; the rise of the supra-national European Community and the multi-cultural societies of the United States, Canada and Australia |
| Analysis |
Nationalism |
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Nationalism |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [207]-218 |
| Subject |
Ethnicity.
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Nation-state.
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Nationalism.
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World politics -- 1945-1989.
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| ISBN |
0586090568 (paperback) |
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9780586090565 (paperback) |
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(paperback) |
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