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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
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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
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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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Nationalism
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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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Nations and Nationalism
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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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The Wilsonian Moment: Self Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism
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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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Mass Media and American Politics, 7th Edition
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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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For Love of Country?: A New Democracy Forum on the Limits of Patriotism
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Martha Craven Nussbaum, Joshua Cohen (Editor)
For Love of Country is a rare forum: a real conversation among some of our most prominent intellectuals about an issue of urgent public importance. At the center of this lively and utterly readable debate book is Martha Nussbaumi's passionate argument against patriotism. At a time when our connections and obligations to the rest of the world grow ...
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Georges Woke Up Laughing- PB
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Nina Glick-Schiller, Professor Nina Glick Schiller, Nina Glick Schiller
"In my dream I was young and in Haiti with my friends, laughing, joking, and having a wonderful time. I was walking down the main street of my hometown of Aux Cayes. The sun was shining, the streets were clean, and the port was bustling with ships. At first I was laughing because of the feeling of happiness that stayed with me, even after I woke ...
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Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland
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Neal Ascherson
Neal Ascherson, half Scots on his mother's side, writes about the country and its history, and its struggle toward independence from England, both politically and psychologically. In the process, he writes about his own family, particularly his mother, who lived to be 96.
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Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East
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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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Communism and Nationalism: Karl Marx Versus Friedrich List
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Roman Szporluk
' An extraordinary, timely, and important book. It comes at a time when communism is rapidly failing. In that context, nationalism is bound to assume even more importance than heretofore...This is an admirably ambitious and well-organized book, combining careful exegesis with wide-ranging ideas. It should prove as fruitful to historians and ...
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We, the People of Europe?: Reflections on Transnational Citizenship
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Etienne Balibar, James Swenson (Translator)
Etienne Balibar has been one of Europe's most important philosophical and political thinkers since the 1960s. His work has been vastly influential on both sides of the Atlantic throughout the humanities and the social sciences. In "We, the People of Europe?", he expands on themes raised in his previous works to offer a trenchant and eloquently ...
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The Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas
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Aviel Roshwald
Aviel Roshwald directly challenges prevalent scholarly orthodoxies about the exclusively modern character of nationalism. He argues that nationalism's enduring power to shape the world we live in arises directly out of its position at the heart of inescapable social and political paradoxes that are not only fundamental to the modern experience, ...
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Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East
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Salim Yaqub
Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, the United States pledged to give increased economic and military aid to receptive Middle Eastern countries and to protect - with US armed forces if necessary - the territorial integrity and political independence of these nations from the threat of "international communism". Salim Yaqub demonstrates that although ...
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Modernity, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey: Bodies, Places, and Time
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Alev Cinar
A fascinating look at the relation between Islam and modernity.
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Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC
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William Mervin Gumede
As a spokesman for a country, a continent and the developing world, Thabo Mbeki plays a crucial role in world politics, but to many people he is an enigma. Is this simply because Mbeki is a secretive man, or are there complicated political factors at play? In this book, experienced journalist William Gumede pulls together the insights he has ...
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China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, and Diplomacy
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Peter Hays Gries
Three American missiles hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and what Americans view as an appalling and tragic mistake, many Chinese see as a 'barbaric' and intentional 'criminal act,' the latest in a long series of Western aggressions against China. In this book, Peter Hays Gries explores the roles of perception and sentiment in the growth of ...
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When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland
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Brian Porter
In When Nationalism Began to Hate, Brian Porter offers a challenging new explanation for the emergence of xenophobic, authoritarian nationalism in Europe. He begins by examining the common assumption that nationalist movements by nature draw lines of inclusion and exclusion around social groups, establishing authority and hierarchy among "one's ...
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The Arabic Language and National Identity: A Study in Ideology
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Professor Yasir Suleiman
This work covers nationalism in the Middle East. The links between language and nationalism are delineated and it covers how this has been articulated over the past two centuries since the 1800s. It examines the clash between Arab and Turkish cultural nationalism in the 19th and early 20th century.
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Hindutva: Exploring the Idea of Hindu Nationalism
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Jyotirmay Sharma
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Nature of the Early Ottoman State
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Heath W Lowry
Drawing on surviving documents from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, The Nature of the Early Ottoman State provides a revisionist approach to the study of the formative years of the Ottoman Empire. Challenging the predominant view that a desire to spread Islam accounted for Ottoman success during the fourteenth-century advance into ...
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Banal Nationalism
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Professor Michael Billig, Professor Mick Billig
Michael Billig presents a major challenge to orthodox conceptions of nationalism in this elegantly written book. While traditional theorizing has tended to the focus on extreme expressions of nationalism, the author turns his attention to the everyday, less visible forms which are neither exotic or remote, he describes as 'banal nationalism'. The ...
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Nationalism: Theory, Ideology, History
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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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Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad
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James H Hughes
The sheer scale and brutality of the hostilities between Russia and Chechnya stand out as an exception in the mostly peaceful breakup of the Soviet Union. Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad provides a fascinating analysis of the transformation of secular nationalist resistance in a nominally Islamic society into a struggle that is its antithesis, ...
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The Post-Colonial States of South Asia: Democracy, Development and Identity
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Amita Shastri (Editor), A Jeyaratnam Wilson (Editor)
The chapters in this volume analyse issues relating to political governance, national identity, economic development and regional security that have preoccupied the states of South Asia in the fifty years following independence. India has been faced with the challenge of developing effective democratic structures in the world's most diverse and ...
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