The endurance of nationalism
| Titel: | The endurance of nationalism : ancient roots and modern dilemmas / Aviel Roshwald |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006 |
| Umfang: | XII, 349 S. : Ill., Kt. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 0521603641 ; 9780521603645 ; 0521842670 ; 9780521842679 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Klappentext |
X
- List of illustrations
- p. ix
- Acknowledgments
- p. xi
- Introduction
- p. 1
- 1
- Nationalism in antiquity
- p. 8
- The Ancient Jews
- p. 14
- The Ancient Greeks
- p. 22
- Conclusion
- p. 30
- 2
- The nation in history and the curved arrow of time
- p. 45
- Transcending history: the French and Czech cases
- p. 52
- Manipulating history in wartime France
- p. 52
- The Czech national revival
- p. 55
- The New Yorker's map of history
- p. 58
- Concretizing the transcendent
- p. 63
- Monuments
- p. 63
- Land
- p. 66
- Peasantry
- p. 68
- Conclusion: nationalist Zen and the art of whitewater rafting
- p. 73
- 3
- Violation and volition
- p. 88
- Shrines of martyrdom
- p. 89
- The Alamo
- p. 89
- The Temple Mount/al-Haram al-Sharif
- p. 97
- Victimhood competitions
- p. 104
- Disputing the meaning of the Alamo
- p. 104
- Ireland's sacred parades
- p. 111
- The interpretive vise of warfare
- p. 120
- The Yugoslav wars
- p. 126
- Jerusalem revisited: constraints and possibilities
- p. 134
- Conclusion
- p. 147
- 4
- Chosenness and mission
- p. 167
- The biblical paradigm
- p. 167
- Choosing to be chosen: the ambiguities of covenantal nationhood
- p. 174
- America's constitutional covenant
- p. 175
- France's covenantal conflicts
- p. 180
- Chosen peoples' burdens: national missions
- p. 182
- A proselytizing particularism: America's sense of global mission
- p. 186
- Responses to American exceptionalism
- p. 205
- Cartographic ambiguities: the shifting shapes of missionary nations
- p. 212
- Conclusion
- p. 223
- 5
- Kindred blood, mingled blood: ethnic and civic frameworks of national identity
- p. 253
- Blurry theoretical distinctions
- p. 256
- The civic element in ethnic-leaning nations
- p. 258
- Mingled blood: kinship imagery in civic frameworks of nationhood
- p. 266
- Limits to civic tolerance and dilemmas of liberal inclusiveness
- p. 272
- Inclusiveness vs. tolerance: the French and Israeli cases
- p. 273
- The limits of American tolerance
- p. 275
- Canada's quandaries
- p. 277
- Imaginative communities
- p. 280
- 6
- Conclusion
- p. 296
- Bibliography
- p. 304
- Index
- p. 339
