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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457112603321

Autore

Kramer Lloyd S

Titolo

Nationalism in Europe and America [[electronic resource] ] : politics, cultures, and identities since 1775 / / Lloyd Kramer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2011

ISBN

1-4696-0293-8

0-8078-6905-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

305.800973

Soggetti

Nationalism - United States - History

Nationalism - Europe - History

Political culture - United States - History

Political culture - Europe - History

Group identity - United States - History

Group identity - Europe - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Nationalism and Modern World History; One: The Cultural Meaning of Nationalism; Two: Politics, Revolutions, and National Sovereignty; Three: Land, Language, and Writing; Four: Religion, Sacrifice, and National Life; Five: Gender, Family, and Race; Six: The Cultural Construction of Nationalism in Early America; Seven: Nationalism and Nation-States in the Modern World, 1870-1945; Eight: Nationalism and Nation-States after 1945; Conclusion: Continuity and Change in the History of Nationalism; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Examining the history of nationalism's pervasive influence on modern politics and cultural identities, Lloyd Kramer discusses how nationalist ideas gained emotional and cultural power after the revolutionary upheavals in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world.  Nationalism in Europe and America analyzes the multiple historical contexts and intellectual themes that have shaped modern nationalist cultures, including the political claims for national sovereignty, the emergence of



nationalist narratives in historical writing and literature, the fusion of nationalism and religion