A Nation-State by Construction - 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 Nation-State by Construction write by Suisheng Zhao. This book was released on 2004. A Nation-State by Construction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first historically comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of the causes, content, and consequences of nationalism in China, an ancient empire that has struggled to construct a nation-state and find its place in the modern world. It shows how Chinese political elites have competed to promote different types of nationalism linked to their political values and interests and imposed them on the nation while trying to repress other types of nationalism. In particular, the book reveals how leaders of the PRC have adopted a pragmatic strategy to use nationalism while struggling to prevent it from turning into a menace rather than a prop.
Collective and State Violence in Turkey
Collective and State Violence in Turkey - 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 Collective and State Violence in Turkey write by Stephan Astourian. This book was released on 2020-11-01. Collective and State Violence in Turkey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Turkey has gone through significant transformations over the last century—from the Ottoman Empire and Young Turk era to the Republic of today—but throughout it has demonstrated troubling continuities in its encouragement and deployment of mass violence. In particular, the construction of a Muslim-Turkish identity has been achieved in part by designating “internal enemies” at whom public hatred can be directed. This volume provides a wide range of case studies and historiographical reflections on the alarming recurrence of such violence in Turkish history, as atrocities against varied ethnic-religious groups from the nineteenth century to today have propelled the nation’s very sense of itself.
Colonialism, Independence, and the Construction of Nation-States
Colonialism, Independence, and the Construction of Nation-States - 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 Colonialism, Independence, and the Construction of Nation-States write by Forrest D. Colburn. This book was released on 2020-09-29. Colonialism, Independence, and the Construction of Nation-States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates studies on colonialism and anti-colonialism from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. The author begins by recounting the deleterious impact of colonialism and then focuses on the heady days of anti-colonialism nationalism. He traces how the system fell apart: leaders, especially those of the second-generation, often turned out to be inept and corrupt; structural obstacles led poor countries to continue to depend on the export of commodities; advanced countries promised to help, but did not prove useful; when growth was possible, here and there, the fruits of development were seldom distributed widely. This project will appeal to the academics, researchers, and students in the fields of comparative politics, development studies, government, and economics.
State Building
State Building - 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 State Building write by Francis Fukuyama. This book was released on 2017-06-15. State Building available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Weak or failed states - where no government is in control - are the source of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to terrorism. What can be done to help? The problem of weak states and the need for state-building has existed for many years, but it has been urgent since September 11 and Afghanistan and Iraq. The formation of proper public institutions, such as an honest police force, uncorrupted courts, functioning schools and medical services and a strong civil service, is fraught with difficulties. We know how to help with resources, people and technology across borders, but state building requires methods that are not easily transported. The ability to create healthy states from nothing has suddenly risen to the top of the world agenda. State building has become a crucial matter of global security. In this hugely important book, Francis Fukuyama explains the concept of state-building and discusses the problems and causes of state weakness and its national and international effects.
A Passion for Facts
A Passion for Facts - 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 Passion for Facts write by Tong Lam. This book was released on 2011-11-01. A Passion for Facts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this path-breaking book, Tong Lam examines the emergence of the "culture of fact" in modern China, showing how elites and intellectuals sought to transform the dynastic empire into a nation-state, thereby ensuring its survival. Lam argues that an epistemological break away from traditional modes of understanding the observable world began around the turn of the twentieth century. Tracing the Neo-Confucian school of evidentiary research and the modern departure from it, Lam shows how, through the rise of the social survey, "the fact" became a basic conceptual medium and source of truth. In focusing on China’s social survey movement, A Passion for Facts analyzes how information generated by a range of research practices—census, sociological investigation, and ethnography—was mobilized by competing political factions to imagine, manage, and remake the nation.
