Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "nationalism"
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‘Anthropologists Are Talking’: About Anthropology and Post-Apartheid South Africa
(Informa UK (Taylor & Francis), 2012)In 2010, South Africa hosted the first World Cup in soccer ever to take place on the African continent. Twenty years after the fall of Apartheid, South Africa presents a series of fractured and contradictory images to the ... -
Between history and nation: Paul Robert Magocsi and the rewriting of Ukrainian history
(Informa UK Limited, 2011)"Getting history wrong is an essential factor in the formation of a nation,” wrote Ernest Renan, basing this observation on his analysis of the nation-building experience in nineteenth-century Europe (qtd. in Eric Hobsbawm, ... -
The Clash of Internationalisms: Prometheism, National Communism, and the Fate of the Soviet Borderlands, 1889-1939
This dissertation charts an intellectual genealogy of internationalist visions of the reorganization of the imperial Russian space that were frustrated and foreclosed by the emergence of the Soviet Union between 1917 and ... -
From Dynasty to Nation: A Historiography of the Dueling Portraits of Nguyễn Huệ and Nguyễn Ánh
(2024-01-29)This dissertation is an exercise in historiographical exegesis to explore the dynamics of the evolving reconstruction of the lives and afterlives of Nguyễn Huệ 阮惠 (1753-1792) and Nguyễn Ánh 阮暎 (1762-1820) who dominated the ... -
Independent India of Plenty: Food, Hunger, and Nation-Building in Modern India
(2014-06-06)This dissertation situates debates over food procurement, provision, and hunger as the key economic and social contestations structuring the late colonial and postcolonial Indian state. It juxtaposes the visions of national ... -
Managing Student Protest in Republican China: Yenching and St. John’s Compared
(Higher Education Press Limited Company and Brill, 2013)Although similar in many respects, the two major Christian universities in Republican China adopted markedly different approaches to the common challenge of student nationalism. Case studies of the May Thirtieth Movement ... -
Varieties of American Popular Nationalism
(SAGE Publications, 2016)Despite the relevance of nationalism for politics and intergroup relations, sociologists have devoted surprisingly little attention to the phenomenon in the United States, and historians and political psychologists who do ... -
Women and the Problem of Family in Early African Nationalist History and Historiography
(Taylor and Francis, 2012)Women played critical roles in making African nationalism ideologically and practically possible in South Africa. They not only participated in organisations, institutions, and campaigns that were well-documented by ...