Nationalism
02 Oct 2008 10:10Origins. Spread. Effects. And religion. Attacks on it. And the novel --- Moses Hadas claims Greek novels were in part inspired by "our-glorious-national-past" romances of the peoples conquered by the Hellenistic empires; so e.g. Chinua Achebe would seem to be part of an exceedingly distinguished tradition. (And no one who compares Things Fall Apart to Daphnis and Chole can doubt the reality of progress in the fine arts.)
See also: Peasant Revolts, Insurgency, Counter-Insurgency; Revolution
- Recommended:
- Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities [Divide through for all the unfortunate little bits which he tacks on so that you know he's a Theoretically Sophisticated Western Marxist.]
- Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism [Review: Necessary Forged Papers]
- E. J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Program, Myth, Reality
- To read:
- Ivan T. Berend, History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century [Blurb and introduction]
- Adeed Dawisha, Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century
- George M. Frederickson, The Comparative Imagination: On the History of Racism, Nationalism, and Social Movements [Free online]
- Emilio Gentile, Politics as Religion [Blurb, ch. 1]
- Liah Greenfeld, Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity
- Montserrat Guibernau, Nations without States: Political Communities in a Global Age
- Ernest B. Haas, Nationalism, Liberalism, and Progress: The Rise and Decline of Nationalism
- Stephen Howe, Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes [Blurb]
- Harold Isaacs, Idols of the Tribe [ethnic chauvanism]
- Kedourie, Nationalism
- Pierre Manent, A World Beyond Politics? A Defense of the Nation-State [Blurb, intro]
- Michael Mann, The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing
- Orlando Patterson, Ethnic Chauvinism
- Pfaff, The Wrath of Nations
- James Ridgeway, Blood in the Face: The Klu Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, and the Rise of a New White Culture
- V. Tismaneanu, Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism, and Myth in Post-Communist Europe [blurb]
- Tzvetan Todorov, On Human Diversity: Nationalism, Racism, and Exoticism in French Thought
- Maurizio Viroli, For Love of Country: An Essay on Patriotism and Nationalism
- Robert Weinberg, Stalin's Forgtten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland. An Illustrated History, 1928--1996 [Blurb]
