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Foundations of National Identity - From Catalonia to Europe (Hardcover)
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Foundations of National Identity - From Catalonia to Europe (Hardcover)
Series: New Directions in Anthropology
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Since it emergence in the 19th century in response to feudalism,
nationalism has been a mixed blessing. Originally seen as a
positive force, often enough it has resulted in warfare and
persecution of minorities, so much so that, over time, it has been
considered a social evil whose apparent decline has been greeted as
a positive development. The author disputes this or rather, he
maintains that the picture that emerges is more complex:
nationalism is not disappearing but has taken on a different form.
What we are experiencing is an increasing autonomy of ethnonations,
i.e. nations without a state, in the wake of a weakening of the
multinational states and the transfer of their sovereignty upwards,
in the case of Europe to the federation of the European Union, and
downwards to the "ethnonations." Catalonia is the major case study
in this book but it is embedded in a comprehensive theoretical
framework as well as the historical and contemporary reality of
Europe, opening up a new perspective. The author, one of the
foremost scholars in this field, brilliantly succeeds in developing
an original, clear and comprehensive vision of nationalism that is
accessible to a wide readership.
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