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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism more books like this

by Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson

What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality - the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to the nation - has not received proportionate attention. In this widely acclaimed work, Benedict Anderson examines ...

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Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence

Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence more books like this

by Mark Juergensmeyer

By examining acts of religious terrorism that have occurred in the late twentieth century--in Jerusalem, Tokyo, Oklahoma City--Juergensmeyer's comparative study seeks to understand the cultural breeding ground for religious extremism and violence.

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Nations and Nationalism

Nations and Nationalism more books like this

by Ernest Gellner

Nationalism is one of the most powerful forces in the modern world, yet it is surprisingly little studied and only imperfectly understood, either by its adherents or its opponents. Its irruption into the modern world is often explained as a resurgence of primitive, atavistic instincts, or as a delusion fostered by a few theoreticians, politicians ...

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Nations and Nationalism Since 1780' Programme, Myth, Reality

Nations and Nationalism Since 1780' Programme, Myth, Reality more books like this

by Eric J Hobsbawm

Eric Hobsbawm's brilliant enquiry into the question of nationalism won further acclaim for his 'colossal stature ...his incontrovertible excellence as an historian, and his authoritative and highly readable prose'. Recent events in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics have since reinforced the central importance of nationalism in the ...

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Assata: An Autobiography

Assata: An Autobiography more books like this

by Assata Shakur

This book presents the life story of African American revolutionary, Shakur, previously known as JoAnne Chesimard.

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International Relations and World Politics: Security, Economy, Identity

International Relations and World Politics: Security, Economy, Identity more books like this

by Professor Paul R Viotti, Mark V Kauppi

International Relations and World Politics introduces the issues in an organized and comprehensible way, examining them in relation to two trends; three broad, organizing themes or concepts; key actors; and three basic images or perspectives that provide structure for the pages that follow: / Two trends--increasing globalization and crises of ...

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The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan

The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan more books like this

by Yasmin Khan

The partition of India in 1947 promised its people both political and religious freedom - through the liberation of India from British rule, and the creation of the Muslim state of Pakistan. In reality the geographical divide effected an even greater schism of the population, benefiting the few at the expense of the very many, exposing huge ...

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The Wilsonian Moment: Self Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism

The Wilsonian Moment: Self Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism more books like this

by Erez Manela

During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, while key decisions were debated by the victorious Allied powers, a multitude of smaller nations and colonies held their breath, waiting to see how their fates would be decided. President Woodrow Wilson, in his Fourteen Points, had called for "a free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of ...

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The Modern Middle East: A History

The Modern Middle East: A History more books like this

by James L Gelvin

In the wake of 11 September 2001, there has been much talk about the inevitable clash between 'East' and 'West.' This book presents an alternative approach to understanding the genealogy of contemporary events. By taking students and the general reader on a guided tour of the past five hundred years of Middle Eastern history, this book examines ...

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The Collapse of Globalism: And the Reinvention of the World

The Collapse of Globalism: And the Reinvention of the World more books like this

by John Ralston Saul

"The Collapse of Globalism follows globalization from its promising beginnings in the 1970s through to the increasing deregulation in industry, and ultimately through the 1990s, when regional economic collapses and concern for the environment and for the rights of workers lead to widespread protest and disillusionment. In the wake of globalism's ...

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Cuba: Between Reform and Revolution more books like this

by Louis A Perez, Jr.

Lou Perez's "Cuba" has been a welcome addition to the Cuban history course since it first appeared. The Second Edition has solidified its place as the leading choice among teachers of modern Cuban history, and, based on events over the past nine years, the text has now been updated and revised. Perez has added new material covering the years from ...

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Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence more books like this

by Judith P Butler

Written after September 11, 2001, in response to the conditions of heightened vulnerability and aggression that have prevailed since then, Judith Butler critiques the use of violence and argues for a response in which violence might be minimized, and interdependency becomes acknowledged as the basis for global political community. Following the ...

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The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War more books like this

by James L Gelvin

The conflict between Israelis and their forebears, on the one hand, and Palestinians and theirs, on the other, has lasted more than a century and generated more than its share of commentaries and histories. James L. Gelvin's account of that conflict offers a compelling, clear-cut, and up to date introduction for students and general readers. ...

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Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past (Volume 3) more books like this

by Professor Pierre Nora (Editor), Professor Lawrence D Kritzman (Editor), Professor Arthur Goldhammer (Translator)

A collection of essays that examines how and why events and figures become a part of a nation's collective memory, how rewriting history can forge new paradigms of cultural identity, and how the meaning attached to an event can become as significant as the event itself. Nora pays particular attention to how these phenomena have formed national ...

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Winslow Homer more books like this

by Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr.

This work examines Homer's artistic accomplishments. It focuses not only on his use of various media, but also on the suites of works on the same subject that reflect the artist's modern practice of thinking and working serially and thematically.

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Gendering World Politics: Issues and Approaches in the Post-Cold War Era more books like this

by Professor J Ann Tickner

-- International Affairs

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Mass Media and American Politics, 7th Edition more books like this

by Doris A Graber

An ideal core text, Graber's trusted and balanced volume explores the foundations of the American mass media system. Focussing on political and technological developments, the book shows students how both the media influences governmental institutions and functions, and how the government shapes the way the media works and disseminates information ...

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Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837, Second Edition more books like this

by Professor Linda Colley

How was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? In this prize-winning book, Linda Colley explains how a new British nation was invented in the wake of the 1707 Act of Union, and how this new national identity was nurtured through war, religion, trade and imperial expansion. Here too are numerous individual Britons - heroes and ...

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Nation and Narration more books like this

by Homi K Bhabha

A classic collection of essays providing an excellent introduction to the many different narrations of the 'nation'.

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Blood & belonging : journeys into the new nationalism more books like this

by Michael Ignatieff

Written to accompany a BBC2 series, this book explores both sides of modern nationalism, one of the most complex and volatile issues of our time. It is a personal odyssey which begins in the nightmare of the former Yugoslavia and ends with the author's return to the disunited United Kingdom. He journeys also to the Ukraine, Quebec and Germany, and ...

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Nationalism more books like this

by Anthony D Smith

For the last two centuries, nationalism has been a central feature of society and politics. Few ideologies can match its power and resonance and no other symbolic language has such worldwide appeal and resilience. However, nationalism is more than an ideological movement - it is also a form of public culture which draws on much older cultural and ...

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Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East more books like this

by Quil Lawrence

As Lawrence relates in his fascinating and timely study of the Iraqi Kurds, while their ambition and determination grow, their future will be largely dependent on whether America values a budding democracy in the region, or decides to yet again sacrifice the Kurds in the name of political expediency.

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Vimy more books like this

by Pierre Berton

One chill Easter dawn in 1917, a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France went over the top of a muddy scarp knows as Vimy Ridge. Within hours, they held in their grasp what had eluded both British and French armies in over two years of fighting: they had seized the best-defended German bastion on the ...

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The Road to Verdun: World War I's Most Momentous Battle and the Folly of Nationalism more books like this

by Ian Ousby

This World War I history focuses on the Battle of Verdun, in which over 700,0000 soldiers lost their lives. Author Ousby tells the military story of this 10-month bloody siege and also explores the French character and the long enmity between the Germans and the French as contributing factors.

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Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution more books like this

by Professor Michael Lind

The question of American identity has exploded in a series of debates about immigration, racial preference, education, family values, and the writing of American history. This study asks whether Americans are now, or ever have been, a nation. It aims to present a challenge to every kind of orthodox opinion, as well as a sweeping revisionist view ...

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