The Shifting Foundations of Modern Nation-States : Realignments of Belonging.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (171 pages)
- Green College Thematic Lecture Series .
- Green College Thematic Lecture Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Canada: A Post-Nationalist Nation? -- Closing the Nation: Nationalism and Statism in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Germany -- Quasi a Nation: Italy's Mezzogiorno before 1848 -- Are We Dreaming? Exceptional Myths and Myths of Exceptionalism in the United States -- The Republic: A French Myth -- Russia's Babel: Myth Production and Its Purposes -- Foundation Myths and the Reflection of History in Modern Hungary -- Cracking Myths of Nation-ness: Indonesia after the Fall of Suharto -- Contributors.
Just as the plurality of nations implies diverse voices and distinct narratives, the authors, coming from different disciplines and backgrounds, represent multiple discourses on the theme of nationhood.