In this work, Canon Sheehan's writings provide an insight into Ireland's process of cultural reconstruction after independence.
In the INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES series,a cross-national analysis of the changing identities of various national and ethnic groups.It features case studies of contemporary Eastern European national identities and ethnic minorities looking at their new political influence and efforts to revive suppressed cultures.
Using the literature produced by Trinidadians at home and abroad over the last 40 years, together with European-based scholarship on theories of nationalism, this book provides an understanding of the forging of national identity.
The Politics of Belonging represents an innovative collaboration between political theorists and political scientists for the purposes of investigating the liberal and pluralistic traditions of nationalism. Alain Dieckhoff introduces an indispensable collection of work for anyone dealing with questions of identity, ethnicity, and nationalism.
The need for a single public culture - the creation of an authentic identity - is fundamental to our understanding of nationalism and nationhood. This book examines British imperial, colonial and postcolonial national identities within their political and social contexts.
Addressing the function of national identity in a modern society, two concepts of the origin of the nation are examined - political and ethnic. Using studies of ethnic minorities and their national attitiudes, the author concludes that national cultures are either `open' or `closed'.
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Marks the three hundredth anniversary of the Union of the two kingdoms of Scotland and England under the name of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
A study of the emergence of modern Romanian identity in Transylvania during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as seen from within the Romanian community itself and their reaction to the image others had of them.
This Handbook gives readers a critical survey of the latest theories and debates and provides a glimpse of the issues that will shape their future.