Nationalism and Culture, Paperback

Description"While life needs the services of history, it must just as clearly be comprehended that an excess measure of history will do harm to the...

Reducere. This edition presents the life and legacy of the legendary Indian Political Leader written by Romain Rolland, French novelist and Nobel Prize winne...

Reducere. The Home and the World (1916) is a novel by Bengali author Rabindranath Tagore. Written after Tagore received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, t...

Reducere. Let us begin the work of Christmas This book is a celebration of the twelve days of Christmas, offering us a chance to dwell on the meaning of the ...

Contributor(s): Author: Julian D. RichardsThe Viking reputation is one of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors, repeatedly plundering the British Isles ...

Hinduism is practised by nearly eighty per cent of India's population, and by some seventy million people outside India. In this Very Short Introdu...

Throughout history, humanity has borne witness to the political and moral challenges that arise when people place national identity above allegianc...

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One of America's most celebrated poets challenges us with this powerful and deeply personal collection of verse that speaks to the injustices of so...

Selected writings from the author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception on the role of psychedelics in society. - Includes letters and lec...

Never Stop is the wrenching memoir of Simba Sana, the cofounder and former leader of Karibu Books, a major indie-bookselling phenomenon and perhaps...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Whitman's Leaves of Grass, a novel of poems that has become a c...

In Ethnicity and Nationalism, Thomas Hylland Eriksen demonstrates that far from being an immutable property of groups, ethnicity is a dynamic and s...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the midst of the Yugoslav wars of the early 1990s, Dubravka Ugresic--winner of the 2016 Neustadt International Prize for Literature--...

Reducere. DescriptionThis sweeping yet succinct new survey introduces readers to the history of the crusades from the eleventh to the twenty-first century. B...

Reducere. In 1977, Jeanne's German nationalist ex-husband, Klaus, tells her he's gotten a new job and wants to take their three-year-old daughter and six-yea...

Drawing on the literary and vernacular traditions of Scottish culture, Hugh MacDiarmid's creates modern literature that is both nationalistic and i...

There is more to globalisation than just world-wide economic interconnectedness. Equally important is that cultures grow together, engage in rappro...

The world-famous work on the origins and development of nationalism The full magnitude of Benedict Anderson's intellectual achievement is still bei...

Reducere. The perfect introduction to the Irish story-a story wrapped in mythology and legend. Since its very origins, Ireland has become the home for a succ...

Reducere. Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have wor...

Reducere. As Christianity adopted to the needs of nations and empires over the centuries, the Gospel message as originally delivered by Christ and the Apostl...

Reducere. Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle clas...

How does the current nationalist moment within British political culture, most acutely evidenced in the recent Brexit result, capture such a broad ...

Reducere. The interwar years were a tumultuous time in South Africa. The effects of the worldwide economic slump gave rise to a huge number of 'poor whites' ...

DescriptionWho were the ancient Phoenicians--and did they actually exist?The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Roma...

Kazan, Russia. Travel and Tourism, Guide. Kazan (meaning 'cooking pot' in Tatar) is the Istanbul of the Volga, a place where Europe and Asia curiou...

Contributor(s): Author: Partha MitterThis concise yet lively new survey guides the reader through 5, 000 years of Indian art and architecture. A ri...

DescriptionThis introductory book on Thai politics and the rule of law explains why chronically unstable Thailand struggles to mediate and adjudica...

Reducere. Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara reveals an artist and activist whose work deftly negotiates boundaries of feminism, nationalism, and film. The...

Reducere. Pagpag is a provocation, connoting both debris and creative refashioning of memory fragments from the Marcos dictatorship--a legacy that, in the wo...

Reducere. Race is our age's great taboo. Public intellectuals insist that it does not exist-that it's a "social construct" and biological differences between...

Reducere. First published in 1973, revised in 1983, and updated in 2007 with new demographic information about the Arab world, The Arab Mind takes readers on...

Reducere. An updated new edition of a classic history of the Hungarians from their earliest origins to today In this absorbing and comprehensive history, Pau...

In this short and timely book, Amy S. Kaufman and Paul B. Sturtevant examine the many ways in which the medieval past has been manipulated to promo...

Reducere. Psychoanalysis is less merciful than Christianity. Where God the Father forgives our ignorance, psychoanalysis holds out no such hope. Ignorance is...

The extraordinary and amorphous Hapsburg Empire--"that ramshackle realm" as Lloyd George called it--extended from cultivated Vienna to the remote h...

Reducere. How have the fall of the USSR and the long dominance of Putin reshaped Russian politics and culture? Ilya Budraitskis, one of the country's most pr...

Reducere. Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as follies, from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration...

Reducere. In this beautifully written memoir (Publishers Weekly), Jean Said Makdisi illuminates a century of Arab life and history through the stories of her...

Reducere. A Concise History of Bosnia integrates the political, economic and cultural history of this fascinating, beautiful, but much misunderstood country....

DescriptionWithin the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted...

Reducere. In a unique application of critical theory to the study of the role of ideology in politics, Jeffrey Herf explores the paradox inherent in the Germ...

Reducere. This stimulating and timely collection examines the Ta no revi­val movement, a grassroots conglomeration of Puerto Ricans and other Latinos who pro...

In a sweeping synthesis of new research in a number of different disciplines, this book argues that we humans are not who we think we are. As he ex...

Reducere. Spike Lee tells the cinematic story of the preeminent director, whose pioneering films from "Do The Right Thing, Jungle Fever, " and "Malcolm X" to...

With the ascension of a new emperor and the dawn of the Reiwa Era, Kenneth J. Ruoff has expanded upon and updated The People's Emperor, his study o...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat are the origins of nationalism and why is it capable of arousing such intense emotions? In this major study, Azar Gat counters the ...

In the 1930s, anarchists and socialists among Spanish immigrants living in the United States created Espa a Libre (Free Spain) as a response to the...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this acclaimed study of British statehood, identity and culture, Tom Nairn deftly dispels the conviction that the Royal Family is not...

What can culture, and its manifestations in artistic and creative forms, 'do'? This book draws on original collaborative research that brings toget...

Naoki Sakai examines the decline of US hegemony in Japan and East Asia and its impact on national identity and legacies of imperialism.Publisher: D...

Scottish nationalism is a powerful movement in contemporary politics, yet the goal of Scottish independence emerged surprisingly recently into publ...

Reducere. While John Whelpton's history of Nepal focuses on the period since the overthrow of the Rana family autocracy in 1950-51, the early chapters are de...

The rise of non-Western Great Powers, the spread of transnational religiously-justified insurgencies, and the resurgence of ethno-nationalism raise...

Contributor(s): Author: Jasbir K. PuarTenth Anniversary Expanded Edition Ten years on, Jasbir K. Puar's pathbreaking Terrorist Assemblages remains ...

For centuries, Persian was the language of power and learning across Central, South, and West Asia, and Persians received a particular basic educat...

Reducere. The Dharma Manifesto is a call to action for those who seek a form of social and political action that has a firm spiritual foundation, but which a...

Uniting Catholic Ireland and Protestant Ireland was a central idea of the "Irish Revival, " a literary and cultural manifestation of Irish national...

States routinely and readily exploit the grey area between sentiments of national affinity and hegemonic emotions geared to nationalist aggression....

To the surprise of many, the Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991, and out of its ruins arose an independent Ukraine. This was a remarkable achieve...

Reimagines the American 19th century through a sweeping interdisciplinary engagement with oceans, genres, and timeEmergent Worlds re-locates ninete...

Investigates the emergence of a militant deterritorialized Islam that has fewer links to any particular country and/or culture. This book argues th...

Originally published over half a decade ago, Anatol Lieven's America Right or Wrong has become a classic analysis of the special character of Ameri...

Reducere. In Latinx Art Arlene D vila draws on numerous interviews with artists, dealers, and curators to explore the problem of visualizing Latinx art and a...

DescriptionA Judeo-Christian Response to the Social Issues of Our Age 'Smokescreens' is a Judeo-Christian manifesto that addresses our responsibili...

Reducere. One of the most influential leaders of the twentieth century, Ho Chi Minh was founder of the Indochina Communist Party and its successor, the Viet-...

Reducere. In Curative Violence Eunjung Kim examines what the social and material investment in curing illnesses and disabilities tells us about the relations...

This book provides an up-to-date overview of sociolinguistics, including topics of nationalism and popular culture, style and identity, creole lang...

A new, fully-revised and updated edition of the leading introduction to social movements and collective action - covers a broad range of approaches...