Is Blood Thicker Than Water?: Crises of Nationalism in the Modern World - Softcover

McPherson, James M.

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ISBN 10: 0375704280 ISBN 13: 9780375704284

Verlag: Vintage Books, 1999

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Examines Canada's crisis of Quebec's request for independence

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r Prize-winner James M. McPherson comes a brilliant and passionate examination of nationalism in today's world, and its effects on the stability of the world's countries, big and small.

Since the end of the Cold War, nationalism has re-emerged as one of the most powerful forces in the modern world. Students of nationalism have analyzed two principal categories of this phenomenon. Ethnic nationalism is more familiar and easier to define; it broke up Yugoslavia into four mutually hostile ethnic nations. It split Czechoslovakia into two nations. It threatens to do the same to Canada. In contrast, civic nationalism defines national identity not by presumed descent from an ancient bloodline with its own language, culture and genetic purity but by citizenship in a national state and loyalty to its political institutions.

James M. McPherson focuses on the American Civil War and Quebec's bid for separation from Canada as case studies in the contest between these two strains of nation

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• Verlag: Vintage Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375704280
• ISBN 13: 9780375704284
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 90