The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism

ISBN-13: 9780521625449 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 248 str.

Adrian Hastings

Opis

This interdisciplinary book straddles the fields of history, politics, religion and sociology, and medieval and modern history. Its importance lies in its contribution to arguments about the meaning and origin of nationalism, ethnicity and nationhood, and in challenging the widely-accepted "modernist" theories of Eric Hobsbawm, Benedict Anderson and others. Its argument incorporates careful analysis of English, Irish, South Slav and African examples, and suggests finally an important contract between Christianity and Islam.

Recenzje

' … some thought-provoking material … this study … offers food for thought in its insistence on nationalism's much earlier origins'. Labour History Review

Spis treści

Preface; 1. The nation and nationalism; 2. England as prototype; 3. England's western neighbours; 4. Western Europe; 5. The south Slavs; 6. Some African case studies; 7. Ethnicity further considered; 8. Religion further considered.