Beyond Nations: Evolving Homelands in the North Atlantic World, 1400-2000

ISBN-13: 9780521516679 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 292 str.

John R. Chavez; John R. Chvez

Opis

Beyond Nations traces the evolution of peripheral ethnic homelands around the North Atlantic, from before transoceanic contact to their current standing in the world political system. For example, Megumaage, homeland of the Micmac is transformed into the French colony of Acadia, then into the British colony of Nova Scotia, and subsequently into the present Canadian province. Centrally, Professor Chavez tracks the role of colonialism in the transformation of such lands, but especially the part played by federalism in moving beyond the ethnic and racial conflicts resulting from imperialism. Significantly, Chavez gives attention to the effects of these processes on the individual mind, arguing that historically federalism has permitted the individual to sustain and balance varying ethnic loyalties regionally, nationally, and globally. Beyond Nations concludes with a discussion of an evolving global imagination that takes into account migrations, borderlands, and transnational communities in an increasingly postcolonial and postnational world."

Recenzje

'John Chavez's book is an enormously ambitious treatment of native homelands around the Atlantic Ocean written by a uniquely qualified scholar who has wrestled with the issue of the origins and evolution of homelands for perhaps two decades. This book builds on his previous work and constitutes a grand new distillation and synthesis. The result is impressive in its scope and the ambition of the scholarship behind it.' Andres Resendez, University of California, Davis

Spis treści

Introduction: images of concentric community; 1. Native American images of community - evolving homelands; 2. Visions of homeland in Europe and Africa - changing communities; 3. Designs for transatlantic empire - the colonial era, 1400–1700; 4. Envisioning nations - incorporation of independences, 1700–1820; 5. Conceiving federations - national development, 1820-1880; 6. Imperial designs revived - the second colonial era, 1880–1945; 7. Postcolonial visions - internationalism and decolonization, 1945–1975; 8. Supranational conceptions - continental confederations, 1975–2000; Conclusion: postnational visions - imagined federalisms.