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Title The shifting foundations of modern nation-states : realignments of belonging / edited by Sima Godfrey and Frank Unger.

Publication Info. Toronto, Ont. ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (164 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Green College thematic lecture series
Green College thematic lecture series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Canada: a post-nationalistic nation? / Ramsay Cook -- Closing the nation: nationalism and statism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany / Diemar Schirmer -- Quasi a nation: Italy's mezzogiorno before 1848 / Marta Petrusewicz -- Are we dreaming? Exceptional myths and myths of exceptionalism in the United States / Frank Unger -- The republic: a French myth / Thomas Ferenczi -- Russia's Babel: myth production and its purposes / Andreas Heinemann-Grüder -- Foundation myths and the reflection of history in modern Hungary / László Kontler -- Cracking myths of nation-ness: Indonesia after the fall of Suharto / Benedict Anderson.
Summary Nation-states today are under pressure from opposite directions. In Western Europe, they are being challenged by the call of assimilation into a larger supra-national polity. Elsewhere, as in Southeastern Europe, nation-states are being challenged by separatist forces from within, demanding independence or self-determination for particular ethnic groups. In either instance, the ultimate aim is not simply the breaking of bonds but rather a realignment of belonging. When the prospect of prosperity and the good life requires an adjustment of national identities and alliances, old myths and new tales alike are mobilized in the effort. People's choices of belonging are flexible and often blatantly pragmatic. Some will never renounce their original 'nation, ' while others gladly assume two or three national identities in a lifetime, all of them with a deeply felt commitment. In The Shifting Foundations of Modern Nation-States, Sima Godfrey and Frank Unger have gathered together a distinguished, multidisciplinary group of authors to discuss national myths from Europe, North America, and Asia. 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.
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Subject Nation-state.
Nation-state.
Nation-state -- History.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Unger, Frank, 1945-
Godfrey, Sima, 1951-
Other Form: Print version: Shifting foundations of modern nation-states. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2004 9780802035011 (DLC) 2004541351 (OCoLC)560233943
ISBN 9781442682351 (electronic book)
1442682353 (electronic book)
1282014250
9781282014251
0802035019 (bound)
0802083943 (paperback)
9780802035011
9780802083944