Symbols of Defeat in the Construction of National Identity.
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TextSeries: Cambridge books onlinePublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (308 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9781107013360
- 9781139004022
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- 9781280484605
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- Nationalism -- History
- National characteristics -- Memory
- Crises -- Psychological aspects -- History
- Memory -- Social aspects -- History
- Collective memory -- History
- Political messianism -- History
- Nationalisme -- Histoire
- Crises (Sciences sociales) -- Aspect psychologique -- Histoire
- Mémoire collective -- Histoire
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Nationalism
- Collective memory
- Crises -- Psychological aspects
- Memory -- Social aspects
- Nationalism
- Political messianism
- 320.54
- JC311 .M54 2012
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Explains why nations elevate images of their own defeat to the center of their symbolism and understanding of their history.
Cover; Symbols of Defeat in the Construction of National Identity; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Theories of Nations and Nationalism; Modernism and Ernest Gellner; The Limits of Modernism; Ethnosymbolism and Anthony Smith; The Limits of Ethnosymbolism; Symbols of Defeat: Authenticity and Modernity; The Nation as a Surrogate Religion; 2 Totem Sacrifice and National Identity; Totem Violence and Social Order; The Function of Sacrificial Ritual and Myth; Religion, Nation, and State; Theories of Nations and Nationalism Revisited.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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