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Nations Identities Reading

Autor Pecora
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 ian 2001
This anthology brings together selections from some of the most significant writings on the idea of national identity over the last 400 years and includes important contributions to contemporary debates in the social sciences and postcolonial studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780631222095
ISBN-10: 063122209X
Pagini: 392
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

advanced humanities and social sciences undergraduates and graduates following courses in cultural studies, colonial and post–colonial studies, international relations, politics, history, English, American Studies, and anthropology

Notă biografică

Vincent P. Pecora is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies at UCLA. His book publications include Self and Form in Modern Narrative (1989) and Households of the Soul (1997).

Cuprins

Acknowledgments. Introduction: Vincent P. Pecora.
Part I: Inventing the Modern State:.
1. Leviathan (1651): Thomas Hobbes.
2. Two Treatises of Government (1690): John Locke.
Part II: From Divine to Human History:.
3. The New Science (1725; 1744): Giambattista Vico.
4. The Spirit of the Laws (1748): Charles Louis de Secondat (Baron de Montesquieu).
5. The Social Contract, Origin of Inequality, and Government of Poland (1754-72): Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
6. Dissertations on Ossian (1763): James Macpherson.
7. Ideas for a Philosophy of History of Mankind (1784-91): Johann Gottfried von Herder.
8. Discourse on the Hindus (1786): Sir William Jones.
9. Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790): Edmund Burke.
Part III: The Spirit of a People:.
10. Study on Sovereignty (Composed 1793-8; First Published 1884): Joseph de Maistre.
11. Addresses to the German Nation (1808): Johann Gottlieb Fichte.
12. The Philosophy of History (1830-1): G. W. F. Hegel.
13. The Inequality of Human Races (1854): Arthur de Gobineau.
14. Considerations on Representative Government (1861): John Stuart Mill.
15. Nationality (1862): John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton.
16. To the Italians (1871): Giuseppe Mazzini.
17 What is a Nation? (1882): Ernest Renan.
18. Our America (1891): José Martí.
19. The Jewish State (1896): Theodor Herzl.
20. The Conservation of Races (1897): W. E. B. Du Bois.
21. Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899): Houston Stewart Chamberlain.
Part IV: Nations at the End of Empires:.
22. Home Rule, Enlightened Anarchy, and National Language (1909-39): Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
23. The Right of Nations to Self-Determination (1914): V. I. Lenin.
24. Addresses: The Fourteen Points and League of Nations (1918-19): Woodrow Wilson.
25. Aims and Objects of Movement for Solution of Negro Problem (1924): Marcus Garvey.
26. The Myth of the Twentieth Century (1930): Alfred Rosenberg.
27 Three Guineas (1938): Virginia Woolf.
28. Discourse on Colonialism (1955): Aimé Césaire.
29 On National Culture (1959): Frantz Fanon.
Part V: Contemporary Perspectives:.
30. The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States (1963): Clifford Geertz.
31. Nations and Nationalism (1983): Ernest Gellner.
32. Imagined Communities (1983): Benedict Anderson.
33. The Riddle of Midnight: India, August 1987: Salman Rushdie.
34. The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question (1987): Partha Chatterjee.
35. The Origins of Nations (1989): Anthony D. Smith.
36. A Kind of Scar: The Woman Poet in a National Tradition (1989): Eavan Boland.
37. Narrating the Nation (1990): Homi K. Bhabha.
38. Culture and Imperialism (1993): Edward W. Said.
Index.

Descriere

This work brings together selections from some of the most significant writings on the idea of national identity over the last 400 years. Beginning with Hobbes's and Locke's early formulations of the modern state, the excerpts chosen illustrate the rich history of the national idea.