A Contested Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Contested Nation write by Oliver Zimmer. This book was released on 2003-07-10. A Contested Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the ways in which the Swiss defined their national identity in the long nineteenth century, in the face of a changing domestic and international background. Its narrative begins in 1761, when the first Swiss patriotic society of national significance was founded, and ends in 1891, when the Swiss celebrated their 600-year existence as a nation in a monumental national festival. While conceding that the creation of a nation-state in 1848 marked a watershed in the history of Swiss nation-formation, the author does not focus one-sidedly - as many others have done - on the activities of the nationalizing state. Instead, he attributes a key role to the competitive and contentious struggles over the shaping of public institutions and over the symbolic representation of the nation. These struggles, to which the nation-state and civil society contributed in equal measure, were framed increasingly along national lines.
Contested Nation
Contested Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contested Nation write by Pilar M. Herr. This book was released on 2019-12-01. Contested Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Throughout the colonial period the Spanish crown made numerous unsuccessful attempts to conquer Araucanía, Chile’s southern borderlands region. Contested Nation argues that with Chilean independence, Araucanía—because of its status as a separate nation-state—became essential to the territorial integrity of the new Chilean Republic. This book studies how Araucanía’s indigenous inhabitants, the Mapuche, played a central role in the new Chilean state’s pursuit of an expansionist policy that simultaneously exalted indigenous bravery while relegating the Mapuche to second-class citizenship. It also examines other subaltern groups, particularly bandits, who challenged the nation-state’s monopoly on force and were thus regarded as criminals and enemies unfit for citizenship in Chilean society. Pilar M. Herr’s work advances our understanding of early state formation in Chile by viewing this process through the lens of Chilean-Mapuche relations. She provides a thorough historical context and suggests that Araucanía was central to the process of post-independence nation building and territorial expansion in Chile.
Taiwan Cinema
Taiwan Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Taiwan Cinema write by G. Hong. This book was released on 2011-02-25. Taiwan Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, Hong provides helpful insight into how it is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of popular genre films before the 1980s. The book is essential for students and scholars of Taiwan, film and visual studies, and East Asian cultural history.
The Contested Nation
The Contested Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Contested Nation write by S. Berger. This book was released on 2008-10-24. The Contested Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume asks which national histories underpinned which national identity constructions in almost every nation state in Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores the construction of national identities through history writing and analyses their interrelationship with histories of ethnicity/race, class and religion.
A Contested Borderland
A Contested Borderland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Contested Borderland write by Andrei Cusco. This book was released on 2018-02-01. A Contested Borderland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bessarabia?mostly occupied by modern-day republic of Moldova?was the only territory representing an object of rivalry and symbolic competition between the Russian Empire and a fully crystallized nation-state: the Kingdom of Romania. This book is an intellectual prehistory of the Bessarabian problem, focusing on the antagonism of the national and imperial visions of this contested periphery. Through a critical reassessment and revision of the traditional historical narratives, the study argues that Bessarabia was claimed not just by two opposing projects of ?symbolic inclusion,? but also by two alternative and theoretically antagonistic models of political legitimacy. By transcending the national lens of Bessarabian / Moldovan history and viewing it in the broader Eurasian comparative context, the book responds to the growing tendency in recent historiography to focus on the peripheries in order to better understand the functioning of national and imperial states in the modern era. ÿ
