The construction of nationhood : ethnicity, religion and nationalism

Adrian Hastings

The Construction of Nationhood, first published in 1997, is a thorough re-analysis of both nationalism and nations. In particular it challenges the current 'modernist' orthodoxies of such writers as Eric Hobsbawm, Benedict Anderson and Ernest Gellner, and it offers a systematic critique of Hobsbawm's best-selling Nations and Nationalism since 1780. In opposition to a historiography which limits nations and nationalism to the eighteenth century and after, as an aspect of 'modernisation', Professor Hastings argues for a medieval origin to both, dependent upon biblical religion and the development of vernacular literatures. While theorists of nationhood have paid mostly scant attention to England, the development of the nation-state is seen here as central to the subject, but the analysis is carried forward to embrace many other examples, including Ireland, the South Slavs and modern Africa, before concluding with an overview of the impact of religion, contrasting Islam with Christianity, while evaluating the ability of each to support supra-national political communities.

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[目次]

  • Preface
  • 1. The nation and nationalism
  • 2. England as prototype
  • 3. England's western neighbours
  • 4. Western Europe
  • 5. The south Slavs
  • 6. Some African case studies
  • 7. Ethnicity further considered
  • 8. Religion further considered.

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書名 The construction of nationhood : ethnicity, religion and nationalism
著作者等 Hastings, Adrian
Hobsbawm, E. J.
書名別名 Nations and nationalism since 1780
シリーズ名 The Wiles lectures given at the Queen's University of Belfast
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 c1997
ページ数 xii, 235 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0521625440
0521593913
NCID BA32973268
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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