The Comparative Approach to National Movements : Miroslav Hroch and Nationalism Studies

ISBN-13: 9780415681964 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 136 str.

Alexander Maxwell

Opis

Miroslav Hroch's 'Social Preconditions of National Revival' has profoundly influenced the study of nationalism, particularly because of its famous three-phase model for describing and analyzing national movements in Eastern Europe. Contributors to this book explore Hroch's continued relevance to the field of nationalism studies.

Spis treści

1. The Comparative Approach to National Movements: Miroslav Hroch and Nationalism Studies  Alexander Maxwell  2. Nation-formation and national movement(s) in Pakistan: a critical estimation of Hroch’s stage theory  Farhan Siddiqi  3. Transplant or graft? Hroch and the Mexican patriotic movements  Henio Hoyo  4. Miroslav Hroch’s model of small nation-formation and Begriffsgeschichte  Oana Sînziana Păltineanu  5. Nationalism and socialism: “Phase D” in the Belarusian nation-building  Nelly Bekus  6. Uninvited guests in the communal apartment: nation-formation processes among unrecognized Soviet nationalities  Ian Appleby  7. Typologies and phases in nationalism studies: Hroch’s A-B-C schema as a basis for comparative terminology  Alexander Maxwell  8. Comments  Miroslav Hroch

O autorze

Alexander Maxwell is the author of Choosing Slovakia: Slavic Hungary, the Czech Language and Unintended Nationalism (2009), a study of Slovak nationalism. He has also edited The East-West Discourse: Symbolic Geography and its Consequences (2011) and translated Jan Kollár’s Wechselseitigkeit (2008). He teaches history at Victoria University (Wellington) and directs the Antipodean East European Study Group.