This book demonstrates how oral history can provide a valuable way of understanding locality, which is important in light of major issues facing the world today, including global environmental concerns.

This volume explores how the mythical and mystical past informs national imaginations. Building on notions of invented tradition and myths of the nation, it looks at the power of narrative and fiction to shape identity, with particular reference to the British and Celtic contexts.

Vibratory Modernism is a collection of original essays that show how vibrations provide a means of bridging science and art - two fields that became increasingly separate in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Rocks of nation reveals how the imagination of nations, and races, is grounded in rocks. In doing so it makes a striking contribution to theories of nation, offering new insights into how national identity is bound up with materiality. The 'Celts', in particular, are imagined to be a primitive race, much like the rocks on which they live. Rocks themselves, in turn, are felt to have a ghostly life of their own. The human identification with living landscapes lies behind attempts to claim exclusive ownership, as natives are understood to belong to, and are part of, the land or nation itself,...

This book demonstrates how oral history can provide a valuable way of understanding locality, which is important in light of major issues facing the world today, including global environmental concerns.