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The contributors to this volume show that the themes of empire,
colony, and national liberation movements can be addressed in a
European continental as much as in Asian, Latin American, or
African contexts. There is a further benefit from a within-Europe
comparison: It calls into question the tendency to assume
fundamental differences between "western" and "eastern" Europe,
including the now largely abandoned distinction between a "western"
nationalism, defined as a civil nationalism, and an "eastern" one,
defined as ethnic. It also answers the question whether
intra-European comparison of this kind is possible, in a context
where post-Soviet scholarship is often invisible in Anglo-American
scholarship. As Norman Davies reminds us, low public awareness of
Europe's smaller and, in west-European minds, "more distant"
nations, underlies the persistence of false generalizations about
them, including assumptions like "that the whole of the west was
advanced while the whole of the east was backward."
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