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This book makes a major contribution to understanding European
politics and identity. It examines how politicians, cultural
elites, and other actors fight over Europe's future with words and
stories, telling narratives about European integration in different
political, social, and cultural contexts. The chapters explore how
actors formulate stories to make sense of Europe's past and
contemporary challenges and to legitimise their own positions and
preferences. The contributors explore themes ranging from divisive
stories about the European Union (EU), mobilised in institutional
reform referendums, to the top-down deployment of legitimising
narratives by EU institutions, religiously inspired apocalyptic
narratives of European unity, and stories about nations and Europe
told by museums and academics. Combined, the chapters of this book
are essential reading for everyone interested in Europe's common
past and contemporary challenges, and the EU's highly contested
nature in times of apparently increasing disintegration.
This book makes a major contribution to understanding European
politics and identity. It examines how politicians, cultural
elites, and other actors fight over Europe's future with words and
stories, telling narratives about European integration in different
political, social, and cultural contexts. The chapters explore how
actors formulate stories to make sense of Europe's past and
contemporary challenges and to legitimise their own positions and
preferences. The contributors explore themes ranging from divisive
stories about the European Union (EU), mobilised in institutional
reform referendums, to the top-down deployment of legitimising
narratives by EU institutions, religiously inspired apocalyptic
narratives of European unity, and stories about nations and Europe
told by museums and academics. Combined, the chapters of this book
are essential reading for everyone interested in Europe's common
past and contemporary challenges, and the EU's highly contested
nature in times of apparently increasing disintegration.
Was pre-Famine and Famine Ireland a violent society? The dominant
view among a range of commentators at the time, and in the work of
many historians since, is that violence was both prevalent and
pervasive in the social and cultural life of the country. This book
explores the validity of this perspective through the study of
homicide and what it reveals about wider experiences of violence in
the country at that time. The book provides a quantitative and
contextual analysis of homicide in pre-Famine and Famine Ireland.
It explores the relationship between particular and prominent
causes of conflict - personal, familial, economic and sectarian -
and the use of lethal violence to deal with such conflicts.
Throughout the book, the Irish experience is placed within a
comparative framework and there is also an exploration of what the
history of violence in Ireland might reveal about the wider history
of interpersonal violence in Europe and beyond. The aim throughout
is to challenge the view of nineteenth-century Ireland as a violent
society and to offer a more complex and nuanced assessment of the
part played by violence in Irish life.
Collective identity, the emotionally powerful sense of belonging to
a group, is a crucial source of popular legitimacy for nations.
However efforts since the 1990s to politically support European
integration by using identity mechanisms borrowed from nationalism
have had very limited success. European integration may require
new, post-national approaches to the relationship between culture
and politics. This controversial and timely volume poses the
logical question: if identity doesn't effectively connect culture
with European integration politics, what does? The book brings
together leading scholars from several of the disciplines that have
developed concepts of culture and methods of cultural research.
These expert interdisciplinary contributors apply a startling
diversity of approaches to culture, linking it to facets of
integration as varied as external policy, the democratic deficit,
economic dynamism and the geography of integration. This book
examines commonalities and connections within the European space,
as well as representations of these in identity discourses. It will
be useful for students and scholars of sociology, geography,
anthropology, social psychology, political science and the history
of European integration.
This book illuminates how experiences of, and attitudes to, crime
and the law corresponded or differed in varying locations and
contexts in early modern and modern Europe. In doing so, it also
aids the reconstruction and interpretation of the legal cultures of
different jurisdictions through the particular perspectives offered
by the operation of the courts and the criminal law. A key theme
throughout the book is the nature of the relationship between
ordinary people and the official legal systems. How was crime
understood and dealt with by ordinary people and to what degree did
they resort to or reject the official law and criminal justice
system as a means of dealing with different forms of criminal
activity? And how, in turn, did the courts and the authorities more
generally respond to and interpret the cases which were brought
before them? The issues addressed in this book include the
participation of ordinary people as prosecutors, witnesses, and
jurors in the courts; the exercise
Was pre-Famine and Famine Ireland a violent society? The dominant
view among a range of commentators at the time, and in the work of
many historians since, is that violence was both prevalent and
pervasive in the social and cultural life of the country. This book
explores the validity of this perspective through the study of
homicide and what it reveals about wider experiences of violence in
the country at that time. The book provides a quantitative and
contextual analysis of homicide in pre-Famine and Famine Ireland.
It explores the relationship between particular and prominent
causes of conflict - personal, familial, economic and sectarian -
and the use of lethal violence to deal with such conflicts.
Throughout the book, the Irish experience is placed within a
comparative framework and there is also an exploration of what the
history of violence in Ireland might reveal about the wider history
of interpersonal violence in Europe and beyond. The aim throughout
is to challenge the view of nineteenth-century Ireland as a violent
society and to offer a more complex and nuanced assessment of the
part played by violence in Irish life.
This book explores a vital but neglected chapter in the histories
of nationalism, racism and science. It is the first comprehensive
study of the transnational scientific community that in the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries attempted to classify
Europe's biological races. Anthropological race classifiers
produced parallel geographies, histories and hierarchies of
European peoples that were crucial to the creation of national
identities and to the overtly political race discourses of eugenics
and popular racist ideologues. They lent nationalism the invaluable
prestige of natural science, and traced the histories, conflicts
and relationships of 'national races' back into prehistory. Racial
national character stereotypes meanwhile supported competing
political ideologies. The book examines the interplay between
class, gender and national identity narratives and the tensions and
interactions between the scientific and political agendas of
classifiers. Within the elaborate transnational networks of
scientific communities, for example, they had to reconcile
competing national narratives.
Collective identity, the emotionally powerful sense of belonging to
a group, is a crucial source of popular legitimacy for nations.
However efforts since the 1990s to politically support European
integration by using identity mechanisms borrowed from nationalism
have had very limited success. European integration may require
new, post-national approaches to the relationship between culture
and politics. This controversial and timely volume poses the
logical question: if identity doesn't effectively connect culture
with European integration politics, what does? The book brings
together leading scholars from several of the disciplines that have
developed concepts of culture and methods of cultural research.
These expert interdisciplinary contributors apply a startling
diversity of approaches to culture, linking it to facets of
integration as varied as external policy, the democratic deficit,
economic dynamism and the geography of integration. This book
examines commonalities and connections within the European space,
as well as representations of these in identity discourses. It will
be useful for students and scholars of sociology, geography,
anthropology, social psychology, political science and the history
of European integration.
National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational
science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This
interaction produced powerful, racialized national identity
discourses whose influence continues to resonate in today's culture
and politics. Ethnologists, anthropologists, and raciologists
compared modern physical types with ancient skeletal finds to
unearth the deep prehistoric past and true nature of nations. These
scientists understood certain physical types to be what Richard
McMahon calls "national races," or the ageless biological essences
of nations. Contributors to this volume address a central tension
in anthropological race classification. On one hand, classifiers
were nationalists who explicitly or implicitly used race narratives
to promote political agendas. Their accounts of prehistoric
geopolitics treated "national races" as the proxies of nations in
order to legitimize present-day geopolitical positions. On the
other hand, the transnational community of race scholars resisted
the centrifugal forces of nationalism. Their interdisciplinary
project was a vital episode in the development of the social
sciences, using biological race classification to explain the
history, geography, relationships, and psychologies of nations.
National Races goes to the heart of tensions between nationalism
and transnationalism, politics and science, by examining
transnational science from the perspective of its peripheries.
Contributors to the book supplement the traditional focus of
historians on France, Britain, and Germany, with myriad case
studies and examples of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century
racial and national identities in countries such as Russia, Italy,
Poland, Greece, and Yugoslavia, and among Jewish anthropologists.
National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational
science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This
interaction produced powerful, racialized national identity
discourses whose influence continues to resonate in today's culture
and politics. Ethnologists, anthropologists, and raciologists
compared modern physical types with ancient skeletal finds to
unearth the deep prehistoric past and true nature of nations. These
scientists understood certain physical types to be what Richard
McMahon calls "national races," or the ageless biological essences
of nations. Contributors to this volume address a central tension
in anthropological race classification. On one hand, classifiers
were nationalists who explicitly or implicitly used race narratives
to promote political agendas. Their accounts of prehistoric
geopolitics treated "national races" as the proxies of nations in
order to legitimize present-day geopolitical positions. On the
other hand, the transnational community of race scholars resisted
the centrifugal forces of nationalism. Their interdisciplinary
project was a vital episode in the development of the social
sciences, using biological race classification to explain the
history, geography, relationships, and psychologies of nations.
National Races goes to the heart of tensions between nationalism
and transnationalism, politics and science, by examining
transnational science from the perspective of its peripheries.
Contributors to the book supplement the traditional focus of
historians on France, Britain, and Germany, with myriad case
studies and examples of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century
racial and national identities in countries such as Russia, Italy,
Poland, Greece, and Yugoslavia, and among Jewish anthropologists.
Southern California has a campground for everyone and every kind of
outdoor activity. Listing more than 600 campgrounds, public and
private, the book is far more than the average camping guide. It
also includes information about hiking trails, fishing spots, water
sports, and many other outdoor activities. Richard McMahon is a
writer who lives in Kahuku, Hawaii, and spends his summers in an RV
in California and Alaska. He has written numerous articles and
writes a regular column for the Advertiser, Honolulu's leading
newspaper. This is his second FalconGuide.
This fully updated and revised guide to over 450 public campgrounds
in Southern California is perfect for tent and RV campers alike.
Within each campground listing is vital information on location,
road conditions, fees, reservations, available facilities, and
recreational activities. The listings are organized by geographic
area, and thorough site maps will simplify the search for the
perfect campground. Southern California offers a surprising array
of quiet, out-of-the-way parks replete with lakes, rivers, rugged
hills, and even rocky cliffs. Camping Southern California provides
useful tips on camping etiquette and enjoying-or avoiding-the
region's diverse and abundant wildlife. Look inside for: *
Campground locations * Facilities and hookups * Fees and
reservations * GPS coordinates for each campground * Recreational
activities * What equipment and clothing to bring
This book illuminates how experiences of, and attitudes to, crime
and the law corresponded or differed in varying locations and
contexts in early modern and modern Europe. In doing so, it also
aids the reconstruction and interpretation of the legal cultures of
different jurisdictions through the particular perspectives offered
by the operation of the courts and the criminal law. A key theme
throughout the book is the nature of the relationship between
ordinary people and the official legal systems. How was crime
understood and dealt with by ordinary people and to what degree did
they resort to or reject the official law and criminal justice
system as a means of dealing with different forms of criminal
activity? And how, in turn, did the courts and the authorities more
generally respond to and interpret the cases which were brought
before them? The issues addressed in this book include the
participation of ordinary people as prosecutors, witnesses, and
jurors in the courts; the exercise
This guide to the many outdoor activities available all year round
in Hawaii features: hiking, backpacking, cycling and mountain
biking, snorkelling, scuba diving, surfing, windsurfing, kayaking,
hunting and fishing. Covering all six of the main islands, it is
also a stand-alone reference providing brief overviews of geology,
geography, climate, flora and fauna. The text offers insights into
the history and culture of the Fiftieth State and provides
information on public transportation, campgrounds, beach access and
personal safety. A list of Hawaiian words is included, as well as a
mini-directory of addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and
websites. For the not-so-active, there is an ""Adventuring By Car""
section which gives directions to lesser-known but interesting
locales accessible by vehicle.
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