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Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Nationalism

Arab Awakening (Hardcover): Antonius Arab Awakening (Hardcover)
Antonius
R5,984 Discovery Miles 59 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1938, this fine book is the first study of the Arab national movement ever written.

Hispanics in the United States - An Agenda for the Twenty-first Century (Paperback, New edition): David Engstrom Hispanics in the United States - An Agenda for the Twenty-first Century (Paperback, New edition)
David Engstrom
R1,547 Discovery Miles 15 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Hispanics in the United States" represents a collective exploration providing a basic foundation of the information available to understand Hispanics in the United States and create an effective policy agenda. Hispanics are projected to be the largest minority group in the United States in the twenty-first century. The contributions define an agenda which will be useful for students, scholars, service practitioners, political activists, as well as policy makers. The opening essays define the diversity of the Hispanic experience in America and put each of the other essays within a larger context. This edition adds a new introduction by the editors incorporating and evaluating the implications of the results of the national 2000 census. The book is organized into two sections: the first establishes the historical, demographic, religious, and cultural context of Hispanics in the United States. The second describes the major issues facing this population in the American social structure, specifically the areas of health care, the labor market, criminal justice, social welfare, and education. The work concludes with a discussion of the role played by Hispanics in the political life of the nation. The contributors, all of whom are scholars with demonstrated competence in the areas, include: Teresa A. Sullivan, David Maldonado, Melissa Roderick, Barry Chiswick, Michael Hurst, Zulema Suarez, Alvin Korte, Katie McDonough, Cruz Reynoso, and Christine Marie Sierra, as well as David Engstrom and Pastora San Juan Cafferty. Together they have produced a book which will be extremely useful to anyone developing public policies and creating social interventions at either the national or local levels during the coming decade. This new edition is a valuable contributor to discussions about the issues defining the population that will be the largest minority group in the United States in this century. Pastora San Juan Cafferty is professor, in the School of Social Service Administration, and a member of the Center for Latin America Studies at the University of Chicago. She is co-author of the "Dilemma of American Immigration: Beyond the Golden Door" and "The Politics of Language." She has written extensively on issues of race and ethnicity in America. David W. Engstrom is associate professor in the school of social work at San Diego State University and the author of "Presidential Decision Making Adrift." He has published in the areas of immigration, health care, and program evaluation.

Self and Sovereignty - Individual and Community in South Asian Islam Since 1850 (Paperback, New): Ayesha Jalal Self and Sovereignty - Individual and Community in South Asian Islam Since 1850 (Paperback, New)
Ayesha Jalal
R1,566 Discovery Miles 15 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Self and Sovereignty surveys the role of individual Muslim men and women within India and Pakistan from 1850 through to decolonisation and the partition period.
Commencing in colonial times, this book explores and interprets the historical processes through which the perception of the Muslim individual and the community of Islam has been reconfigured over time. Self and Sovereignty examines the relationship between Islam and nationalism and the individual, regional, class and cultural differences that have shaped the discourse and politics of Muslim identity. As well as fascinating discussion of political and religious movements, culture and art, this book includes analysis of:
* press, poetry and politics in late nineteenth century India
* the politics of language and identity - Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi
* Muslim identity, cultural differnce and nationalism
* the Punjab and the politics of Union and Disunion
* the creation of Pakistan
Covering a period of immense upheaval and sometimes devastating violence, this work is an important and enlightening insight into the history of Muslims in South Asia.

Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires - Central Europe, the Middle East and Russia, 1914-23 (Hardcover): Aviel Roshwald Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires - Central Europe, the Middle East and Russia, 1914-23 (Hardcover)
Aviel Roshwald
R5,451 R4,576 Discovery Miles 45 760 Save R875 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days


An examination of the critical dilemmas of nationalist politics in the First World War. The book proposes, using case-studies from events in the Hapsburg, Romanov and Ottoman Empires, that the war catapulted nationalist movements into positions of authority well before they were ready, culturally or politically.

Nationalism and European Integration - The Need for New Theoretical and Empirical Insights (Hardcover): Ireneusz Pawel... Nationalism and European Integration - The Need for New Theoretical and Empirical Insights (Hardcover)
Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski, Andrzej Marcin Suszycki
R5,024 Discovery Miles 50 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Nationalism has long excited debate in political and social sciences and still remains a key field of research among historians, anthropologists, sociologists, as well as political scientists. In the time of the European integration, and particularly as a result of the recent crisis of the European constitution, it has become one of the critical media issues. There are, however, surprisingly few studies that examine the relationship between nationalism and European integration. This volume is a collection of essays by a multinational group of authors - from Germany, Poland, Great Britain, Canada, Turkey, the United States and Belgium - who examine the link between nationalism and European integration using comparisons and in-depth analysis, by using the institutional approach, the actor-centered approach, as well as the discourse analysis or multivariate regression analysis. Some topics of discussion include the EU-enlargement as a mobilizing agent for nationalism, a ground-breaking hypothesis in the research of nationalism, the influence of Europeanization on the nationalist parties in selected EU member states as well as the concept of nationalism as a modernizing project in the post-modern European Union, and the question of both the negative implications of the nationalism discourse and the antithetical construction of the national and European identities.

Public Spheres and Collective Identities (Paperback): Walter Lippmann Public Spheres and Collective Identities (Paperback)
Walter Lippmann
R1,595 Discovery Miles 15 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Today it is assumed that we understand contemporary nationalism and nation-building. Researchers rarely consider the very different traditions from which such state-building emerged. Instead, there is almost too much discussion of the "global village," with its supposed uniformity and inevitable trajectories. We need to view modernity as something other than a single condition with a preordained future. New visions of a modern civilization are emerging throughout the world, calliing for a far-reaching appraisal of the older visions of modernization.

Following Eisenstadt's and Schluchter's introduction, Bjorn Wittrock explores the varieties and transitions of early modern societies, noting that only by looking at societies' collective identities and their modes of mediating in the public sphere can the distinguishing factors between modernity be appreciated. Sheldon Pollock discusses the use of vernacular language in India through its literary culture and polity, 1000-1500. Sanjay Subrahmanyam, sums up major developments in the recent historiography of South Asia from 1400 to 1750. David L. Howell focuses on the boundaries of the early modern Japanese state, including its political boundaries and the boundaries of collective identity and social status. Mary Elizabeth Berry examines public life in authoritarian Japan. Frederic Wakeman, Jr. probes the boundaries of the political game and how they were affected by the increased political centralization that developed after the disorder of the Ming-Qing transition during the seventeenth century. Alexander Woodside discusses territorial order and collective-identity tensions in Confucian Asia. Bernhard Giesen argues that the French Enlightenment can be described as an extension of absolutist court culture. Finally essay, Victor Perez-Diaz examines the state and public sphere in Spain during the Ancient Regime contrasting two ideal types of states--a "nomocratic" model and a "teleocratic" model.

This volume addresses cultural and political practices not only from outside the European and American spheres but also over long periods of time in which the internal dynamics of other civilizations become visible. Its broad-ranging use of empirical materials enables us to think comparatively and historically about the ways in which different modernities took shape.

Ideology and Revolution in Southeast Asia 1900-1980 - Political Ideas of the Anti-Colonial Era (Hardcover): Clive J. Christie Ideology and Revolution in Southeast Asia 1900-1980 - Political Ideas of the Anti-Colonial Era (Hardcover)
Clive J. Christie
R4,715 Discovery Miles 47 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Considers the interaction between indigenous ('Asian') values and European ideology and influences on the nationalist and revolutionary movements of Southeast Asia that dominated the political systems of Southeast Asia in the period 1945-1975.

Divided Against Zion - Anti-Zionist Opposition to the Creation of a Jewish State in Palestine, 1945-1948 (Hardcover): Rory... Divided Against Zion - Anti-Zionist Opposition to the Creation of a Jewish State in Palestine, 1945-1948 (Hardcover)
Rory Miller
R4,576 Discovery Miles 45 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Using primary sources, this study of the relationship between three anti-Zionist bodies in Britain in the years that directly preceded the founding of the State of Israel also analyzes the Zionist attitude to the Jewish Fellowship, the Arab Office and the Committee for Arab Affairs.

Cinema and Nation (Hardcover): Mette Hjort, Scott Mackenzie Cinema and Nation (Hardcover)
Mette Hjort, Scott Mackenzie
R4,584 Discovery Miles 45 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


In Cinema and Nation leading film scholars, philosophers and sociologists consider ways in which film production and reception are shaped by ideas of national identity and belonging. The contributors discuss a wide range of cinemas, in Europe, Asia and the Americas, exploring the relationship between film policy and film cultures, and examining the implications of globalization and the reconfiguration of nation states for both the concept and the reality of national cinema. The sections cover: Sociological approaches to national identity * preconceptions about 'national' cinema * nation states efforts to create national culture through cinema * productions strategies of national cinema * readings by audiences both at home and abroad.

Prelude to the Easter Rising - Sir Roger Casement in Imperial Germany (Paperback): Reinhard R. Doerries Prelude to the Easter Rising - Sir Roger Casement in Imperial Germany (Paperback)
Reinhard R. Doerries
R1,522 Discovery Miles 15 220 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Prelude to the Easter Rising casts light upon the clandestine activities of Sir Roger Casement in Imperial Germany from 1914 to 1916. German military intelligence and the Imperial Foreign Office had far-reaching plans to use the Irish in the war against Britain. Radical Irish-American leaders were behind Casement's mission to Berlin. It took some time for the highly sensitive and idealistic Casement to realise that neither the German General Staff nor the Imperial Chancellor was able, or willing, to lend full military support to the Irish. When Casement began to see that the rising would be a bloody massacre, he left for Ireland to halt the fatal development and, if necessary, sacrifice his own honour and life. The carefully edited documents contained in this volume, mostly from the German Foreign Office archives in Bonn, present a full record of Casement's activities prior to Easter 1916. Over 80 years later, these papers have lost none of their emotional immediacy.

Contemporary Nationalism (Hardcover): David Brown Contemporary Nationalism (Hardcover)
David Brown
R4,717 Discovery Miles 47 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This outstanding volume features unique case studies concerning the Basque conflict; Singapore; Ghana and Australia. Other detailed case studies discuss nationalist contention in areas such as the Northern Ireland, Rwanda and Spain. The author's background in Asian and African Politics offers clear, analytical framework through which to approach the subject. Key issues covered include:
the language of nationalism
globalisation and nationalism
nationalist ideologies in conflict.

eBook available with sample pages: PB:0415171393 EB:0203380258

States and Nationalism in Europe since 1945 (Paperback, New): Malcolm Anderson States and Nationalism in Europe since 1945 (Paperback, New)
Malcolm Anderson
R1,259 Discovery Miles 12 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Series Information:
The Making of the Contemporary World

Asian Nationalism (Hardcover): Michael Leifer Asian Nationalism (Hardcover)
Michael Leifer
R4,565 Discovery Miles 45 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Asian Nationalism brings together internationally renowned experts in the field analysing current theories of nationalism. Featuring detailed chapter case-studies on Pakistan, China, Japan, Taiwan, India, Indonesia and the Philippines, this book provides a good balance of theoretical and empirical material.
Completely up-to-date, this book will be invaluable for scholars of both Asian Studies and Politics. Key issues covered include:
theories of nationalism
the changing faces of Chinese nationalism
Indian National Democracy
the imagined community
reflections on Asian nationalism.

Nationalism and Internationalism in the Post-Cold War Era (Hardcover): Kjell Goldmann, Ulf Hannerz, Charles Westin Nationalism and Internationalism in the Post-Cold War Era (Hardcover)
Kjell Goldmann, Ulf Hannerz, Charles Westin
R4,731 Discovery Miles 47 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The tension between nationalism and internationalism has been a major feature of world politics since the end of the Cold War. Based on a Nobel symposium, this collection brings together an international selection of acclaimed authors from a wide variety of academic disciplines. The book combines focused case-studies and more theoretically based material to examine critically the post-Cold War political landscape. Subjects covered include:
* changing interpretation of the nation state and nationalism
* the growing prominence of transnational organisations
* technological changes in information, communication and transport
* multiculturalism and citizenship
*ethnicity and religious identity in African, Indian, Bosnian and Polish nationalism
* the growing global significance of Islam.

Contemporary Nationalism (Paperback, New): David Brown Contemporary Nationalism (Paperback, New)
David Brown
R2,008 Discovery Miles 20 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This outstanding volume features unique case studies concerning the Basque conflict; Singapore; Ghana and Australia. Other detailed case studies discuss nationalist contention in areas such as the Northern Ireland, Rwanda and Spain. The author's background in Asian and African Politics offers clear, analytical framework through which to approach the subject. Key issues covered include:
the language of nationalism
globalisation and nationalism
nationalist ideologies in conflict.

Asian Nationalism (Paperback, New): Michael Leifer Asian Nationalism (Paperback, New)
Michael Leifer
R1,639 Discovery Miles 16 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
1. Chapter One Theories of Nationalism. Alternative Models of Nation-Formation Professor Anthony Smith 2. Chapter Two The Changing Faces of Chinese Nationalism. Aspects of Statehood Professor Michael Yahuda 3. Chapter Three Sources of Ethnic Nationalist Tensions in Mainland China Dr Soloman Karmel 4. Chapter Four Post-Nationalist Taiwan Dr Christopher Hughes 5. Chapter Five Nationalism in Japan Professor Ian Nish 6. Chapter Six Communalism, Secularism and Indian National Democracy Professor Lord Desai 7. Chapter Seven Peregrinations of Pakistani Nationalism Dr Athar Hussain 8. Chapter Eight The Changing Temper of Indonesian Nationalism Professor Michael Leifer 9. Chapter Nine Social Capital and the Imagined Community: Democracy and Nationalism in the Philippines 10. Conclusion: Reflections on Asian Nationalism Professor James Mayall

Nationalism and Internationalism in the Post-Cold War Era (Paperback, New): Kjell Goldmann, Ulf Hannerz, Charles Westin Nationalism and Internationalism in the Post-Cold War Era (Paperback, New)
Kjell Goldmann, Ulf Hannerz, Charles Westin
R1,656 Discovery Miles 16 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Maps the post-Cold War political landscape within the contributions by prominent theorists and commentators of the post-Cold War period. The book puts forward a critical reading of the term "post-Cold War" and what it implies - clearly its most immediate interpretation is the disappearance of the Walls and Iron Curtains and the consequent shift away from a global bipolar power structure and we hope a nuclear arms race. However, more broadly, one might take the term to mean the late 20th and early 21st century, allowing us to talk more generally about the changes to the world market economy, the strengthening of regional units, technological change, the growth in international organizations and so on. Thirdly, there is the implication that this is an era in which the world finds itself paying renewed attention to matters that may have been neglected during the Cold War - nationalism being a major one.

Women, States and Nationalism - At Home in the Nation? (Hardcover): Sita Ranchod-Nilsson, Mary Ann Tetreault Women, States and Nationalism - At Home in the Nation? (Hardcover)
Sita Ranchod-Nilsson, Mary Ann Tetreault
R4,870 Discovery Miles 48 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
Introduction Sita Ranchod-Nilsson and Mary Ann Tetreault 1. Nationalism Engendered: A Critique of Approaches to Nationalism, Linda Racioppi and Katherine O'Sullivan See 2. Writing Bodies on the Nation for the Globe, Zillah Eisenstein 3. Sexing Political Identities, V. Spike Peterson 4. The Politics of Gandhi's Feminism: Constructing Sitas Swaraj, Suresht Bald 5. Communalism, Nationalism and Gender: Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Hindu Right in India, Geeta Chowdhry 6. Ulster's Red Hand: Gender, Identity and Sectarian Conflict in Northern Ireland, Mary K. Meyer 7. From Subjects to Citizens: Women and the Nation in Kuwait, Mary Ann Tetreault and Hay al-Mughni 8. (Gender) Struggles for the Nation: Power, Agency and Representation in Zimbabwe, Sita Ranchod-Nilsson 9. Citizen-soldiers or Republican Mothers: Citizenship and Military Obligations in an Era of 'Choice', Cheryl Logan Sparks 10. Women Warriors: The Paradox and Politics of Israeli Women in Uniform, Edna Leny, References

Contemporary Taiwanese Cultural Nationalism (Hardcover): A-chin Hsiau Contemporary Taiwanese Cultural Nationalism (Hardcover)
A-chin Hsiau
R5,433 R4,559 Discovery Miles 45 590 Save R874 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
1. Introduction
1.1 The people, language, and history: an outline
1.2 Contemporary scholarship on nationalism and the study of Taiwanese nationalism
1.3 Dominated ethnic groups, nationalism and humanist intellectuals
1.4 Cultural nationalism and political nationalism
1.5 The politics of cultural uniqueness
1.6 Modernization ideology and cultural nationalism
1.7 The question of dissemination channels
1.8 The organization of the book
2. Japanese colonialism and literary and linguistic reforms in colonial Taiwan
2.1 Japanese colonialism and Taiwanese resistance in the 1920s
2.2 Japanese linguistic assimilationism
2.3 Literary and linguistic reforms in colonial Taiwan
2.4 Conclusion
3. Postwar linguistic problems, literary development, and the debate on Hsiang-t'u Literature
3.1 Early Mainlander-Taiwanese contact and the linguistic problem
3.2 Early KMT rule and the 2-28 incident
3.3 The 1947-49 literary discussion
3.4 KMT rule in the 1950s and 1960s
3.5 Combat literature, KMT ideology, and the development of modernist literature in the 1950s and 1960s
3.6 The debate on 'Hsiang-t'u' literature
3.7 Conclusion
4. Crafting a national literature
4.1 Native Taiwanese writers in the 1950s
4.2 The early history of Taiwan literature and Li Poetry Magazine
4.3 KMT rule and the rising of the Taiwanese opposition movement in the 1970s
4.4 The debate on Taiwanese consciousness and 'Hsiang-t'u' literature
4.5 Ch'en Ying-Chen, Yeh Shih-T'ao, and 'Hsiang-t'u' literature: 'pro-China' versus 'pro-Taiwan'
4.6 'De-Sinocizing' Taiwanese literature: the first half of the 1980s
4.7 Political changes since 1986
4.8 Crafting a national culture: the second half of the 1980s and after
4.9 Crafting a national literature
4.10 Conclusion
5. Crafting a national language
5.1 The official language policy and its consequences
5.2 Crafting a national language
5.3 The Hoklo writing system and Taiwanese nationalism
5.4 Hoklo literature and Taiwanese literature redefined: bringing language in
5.5 Conclusion
6. Crafting a national history
6.1 KMT rule and the pro-China view of history
6.2 The development of the pro-Taiwan view of history and Taiwanese nationalism
6.3 Conclusion
7. Conclusion
7.1 Taiwanese nationalism as an historical 'latecomer'
7.2 Taiwanese cultural nationalism reconsidered

Women, States and Nationalism - At Home in the Nation? (Paperback, New): Sita Ranchod-Nilsson, Mary Ann Tetreault Women, States and Nationalism - At Home in the Nation? (Paperback, New)
Sita Ranchod-Nilsson, Mary Ann Tetreault
R1,650 Discovery Miles 16 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Women, States and Nationalism counters this attitude and examines the many and contradictory ways in which women negotiate their places in 'the nation'. The volume includes theoretical essays that explore the multiple ways in which the very concept of 'nation' is based upon notions of family, sexuality and gender power which are often overlooked of downplayed by 'male-stream' scholarship. It gathers together an outstanding panel of feminist scholars and area studies specialists, who, through a series of focused case studies, analyse diverse issues which include;
*gender and sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland
*the paradox of Israeli women soldiers
*women, civic duty and the military in the USA
*the Hindu Right in India
*power, agency and representation in Zimbabwe
*political identity and heterosexism.
This timely volume is a highly valuable resource for students and scholars of Nationalism, Internationalism Studies and Women's Studies.

Leadership and Nationalism in Azerbaijan - Ali Mardan bey Topchibashov, Founder and Creator (Hardcover): Jamil Hasanli Leadership and Nationalism in Azerbaijan - Ali Mardan bey Topchibashov, Founder and Creator (Hardcover)
Jamil Hasanli
R4,572 Discovery Miles 45 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Ali Mardan bey Topchibashov was a prominent politician, who played a crucial role in the history of Azerbaijan. One of the most striking personalities in the history of Azerbaijan, the founder of liberal ideas, and the first President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, he led the Muslim faction in the first Russian Duma and the Union of Muslims of Russia and was a central figure of the Caucasian emigres in Europe. This book analyses and presents the life of the first independent Azerbaijani political leaders. Based on extensive research from archives in Azerbaijan, France, Georgia, Russia (Moscow and Kazan) and the UK, some of which are newly accessible, it traces the political personality of Topchibashov as one of the largest Muslim leaders and founder of the Azerbaijan Republic. At the same time, it offers insights into the history of the formation and creation of the national consciousness of the Russian Muslims and tracks the challenges in the national and religious policy of the Imperial administration of the Soviet Union. The author sheds light on the significant problems of the Russian Empire (nationalities specifically) and global movements such as the post-World War I settlement and the difficulties of the many non-Russian groups that declared independence after the Bolshevik rise of power. Filling a lacuna in modern Azerbaijan history, this book will be of interest to academics working on Russian, Soviet, South Caucasus and Central Asian History, in particular Russian Empire, Muslim nations, and nationalism in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and The United States - Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany,... Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and The United States - Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and The United States (Hardcover)
Laura E. Hein, Mark Selden
R4,579 Discovery Miles 45 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Considering the great influence textbooks have as interpreters of history, politics and culture to future generations of citizens, it is no surprise that they generate considerable controversy. Focusing largely on textbook treatment of lingering - and sometimes explosive - tensions originating in World War II, "Censoring History" addresses issues of textbook nationalism in historical and comparative perspective. Discussions include Japan's Comfort Women and the Nanjing Massacre; Nazi genocide against the Jews, Gypsies, Catholics and others; Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Indochina wars. The essays address controversies over textbook content around the globe: How and why do specific representations of war evolve? What are the international and national forces affecting how textbook writers, publishers and state censors depict the past? How do these forces differ from country to country? Other comparative essays analyze nationalist and war controversies in German, US and Chinese textbook debates.

Identity and Territorial Autonomy in Plural Societies (Hardcover): Ramon Maiz, Safran William Identity and Territorial Autonomy in Plural Societies (Hardcover)
Ramon Maiz, Safran William
R5,846 R4,730 Discovery Miles 47 300 Save R1,116 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Focusing on approaches to autonomy in countries whose societies are marked by ethnic diversity, this study examines the effects of territorial solutions to the safeguarding of cultural identities. Studying the problem from a cross-national and analytical perspective, the contributors distinguish among the types of autonomy and their impact on pluralism, democracy and the unity of the state. Post-Franco Spain, in the process of continuing democritization, has become important as a laboratory of institutional accomodation of ethnic and regional identities, and the second section concentrates on that country's attempts to steer a middle course between federalism and forms of decentralization. The study contains case studies dealing with questions of nationalism, autonomy and identity in Kosovo, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, British Columbia and Africa.

Identity and Territorial Autonomy in Plural Societies (Paperback): Ramon Maiz, Safran William Identity and Territorial Autonomy in Plural Societies (Paperback)
Ramon Maiz, Safran William
R1,532 Discovery Miles 15 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Focusing on approaches to autonomy in countries whose societies are marked by ethnic diversity, this study examines the effects of territorial solutions to the safeguarding of cultural identities. Studying the problem from a cross-national and analytical perspective, the contributors distinguish among the types of autonomy and their impact on pluralism, democracy and the unity of the state. Post-Franco Spain, in the process of continuing democritization, has become important as a laboratory of institutional accomodation of ethnic and regional identities, and the second section concentrates on that country's attempts to steer a middle course between federalism and forms of decentralization. The study contains case studies dealing with questions of nationalism, autonomy and identity in Kosovo, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, British Columbia and Africa.

Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and The United States - Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany,... Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and The United States - Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and The United States (Paperback)
Laura E. Hein, Mark Selden
R1,340 Discovery Miles 13 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Considering the great influence textbooks have as interpreters of history, politics and culture to future generations of citizens, it is no surprise that they generate considerable controversy. Focusing largely on textbook treatment of lingering - and sometimes explosive - tensions originating in World War II, "Censoring History" addresses issues of textbook nationalism in historical and comparative perspective. Discussions include Japan's Comfort Women and the Nanjing Massacre; Nazi genocide against the Jews, Gypsies, Catholics and others; Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Indochina wars. The essays address controversies over textbook content around the globe: How and why do specific representations of war evolve? What are the international and national forces affecting how textbook writers, publishers and state censors depict the past? How do these forces differ from country to country? Other comparative essays analyze nationalist and war controversies in German, US and Chinese textbook debates.

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