Political Culture and the Making of Modern Nation-States

ISBN-13: 9781612057842 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 318 str.

Edward Weisband;Courtney I P Thomas;¬Abar

Opis

This book focuses on transformations of political culture from times past to future-present. It defines the meaning of political culture and explores the cultural values and institutions of kinship communities and dynastic intermediaries, including chiefdoms and early states. It systematically examines the rise and gradual universalization of modern sovereign nation-states. The authors recount the making of political culture in the American nation-state and look at the processes of internal colonialism in the American experience, examining how major ethnic, sectarian, racial, and other distinctions arose and congealed into social and cultural categories.

Spis treści

Part 1-Transformations of Political Culture From Times Past to Future Present
1. Political Culture
2. Kinship Communities as Political Cultures
3. Dynastic Intermediaries: Culture and Governance between Kinship and States
4. Modern Sovereign Nation-States: Nationality, Citizenship, and Hyphenated Identities

Part II-The Making of the Political Culture of the American Nation-State
5. Internal Colonialism and the American Experience
6. Groups as Identity Objects in American Political Culture

Part III-Global Colonialism and The Making of the Modern Nation-State
7. Colonialist and Post-Colonial Political Culture
8. Ethno-Political Violence and Sub-National Conflict

Part IV-The Holocaust, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: Political Culture in Violation of Personhood
9. The Holocaust
10. Armenia, Cambodia, and Burundi: Racialized Ethno-Political Conflict and Subnational Genocide

Part V-Nation-Building and State Building: Future Challenges in the Present
11. The Struggle Over Legitimacy: A Case Study of Afghanistan

O autorze

Edward Weisband is the Edward S. Diggs Endowed Chair Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech. Courtney I. P. Thomas is Visiting Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Advisor, and Internship Coordinator in the Department of Political Science/International Studies at Virginia Tech.