Imagining Nations - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719054605 ISBN 13: 9780719054600

Verlag: Manchester University Press, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

The concept of the nation is central to modern understandings both of political community and of personal identity. Notions of national distinctiveness and of international competition dominate the ways in which we think about history, about geography, about culture and economics and human character. The essays in this book seek to understand the complex ways in which nations are imaginatively constructed. Dealing chiefly with British and German examples, but relating these examples to wider conceptual and theoretical issues, they illustrate both the diversity and the potential of a cultural approach to nationhood and nationalism. The book is conceived in an interdisciplinary spirit, drawing insights from intellectual history, art history, geography, and literary studies, and tracing the implications of nationalist habits of thought across fields as varied as historiography, cartography, visual art, science and economic statistics. Taken together, the essays offer a wide-ranging exploration of the cultural, ideological and intellectual processes through which national identities are developed, debated and articulated.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Geoffrey Cubitt is Lecturer in History at the University of York.

Geoffrey Cubitt is Lecturer in History at the University of York.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0719054605
• ISBN 13: 9780719054600
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Herausgeber: Cubitt Geoffrey
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