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This interdisciplinary book straddles the fields of history, politics, religion and sociology, and medieval and modern history. Its importance lies in its contribution to arguments about the meaning and origin of nationalism, ethnicity and nationhood, and in challenging the widely-accepted modernist theories of Eric Hobsbawm, Benedict Anderson and others. Its argument incorporates careful analysis of English, Irish, South Slav and African examples, and suggests finally an important contract between Christianity and Islam.
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The Construction of Nationhood : Ethnicity, Religion, and Nationalism Wiles Lectures ; 1996
author
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Hastings, Adrian.
publisher
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Cambridge University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0521593913
print isbn13
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9780521593915
ebook isbn13
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9780511003769
language
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English
subject
Nationalism--History, Nationalism--Religious aspects, Hobsbawm, E. J.--(Eric J.),--1917---Nations and nationalism since 1780.
publication date
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1997
lcc
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JC311.H346 1997eb
ddc
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320.54
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Nationalism--History, Nationalism--Religious aspects, Hobsbawm, E. J.--(Eric J.),--1917---Nations and nationalism since 1780.
The Construction of Nationhood
The 1996 Wiles Lectures Given at the Queen's University of Belfast
Page i
This is a thorough re-analysis of both nationalism and nations. It challenges the current 'modernist' orthodoxies of such writers as Eric Hobsbawm, Benedict Anderson and Ernest Gellner, and it offers a systematic critique of Hobsbawm's best-selling Nations and nationalism since 1780.
In opposition to books which limit nations and nationalism to the eighteenth century and after, as an aspect of 'modernisation', Professor Hastings argues for a medieval origin to both, dependent upon biblical religion and the development of vernacular literatures. While theorists of nationhood have paid mostly scant attention to England, the development of the nation-state is seen here as central to the subject, but the analysis is carried forward to embrace many other examples, including Ireland, the South Slavs and modern Africa, before concluding with an overview of the impact of religion, contrasting Islam with Christianity.
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The Construction of Nationhood
Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism
Adrian Hastings
University of Leeds
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First published 1997
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Hastings, Adrian The construction of nationhood: ethnicity, religion and nationalism / Adrian Hastings. p. cm. (The Wiles lectures given at the Queen's University of Belfast) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0 521 59391 3 (hardcover) 1. Nationalism History. 2. Nationalism Religious aspects. 3. Hobsbawm, E.J. (Eric.), 1917 . Nations and nationalism since 1780. I. Title. II. Series: Wiles lectures. JC311.H346 1997 320.54-dc21 97-7039 CIP
ISBN 0 521 59391 3 hardback ISBN 0 521 62544 0 paperback
eISBN 0511003765 virtual (netLibrary Edition)
Page vii
For Janet Boyd
Page ix
Contents
Preface
page xi
1 The Nation and Nationalism
1
2 England as Prototype
35
3 England's Western Neighbours
66
4 Western Europe
96
5 The South Slavs
124
6 Some African Case Studies
148
7 Ethnicity Further Considered
167
8 Religion Further Considered
185
Notes
210
Index
228
Page xi
Preface
This book is based on the Wiles Lectures which I had the honour to give at The Queen's University of Belfast in May 1996. I have first to thank the Vice-Chancellor and the Wiles Trustees, in particular Professor David Hempton, head of the Queen's School of History, Professor Terence Ranger, Professor Ian Kershaw and Trevor Boyd for the invitation to deliver them. It is the particular attraction of the Wiles Lectures that a group of distinguished historians from other universities are invited to Belfast for the week in which they are given, to discuss each lecture after dinner that evening with the Trustees and selected members of Queen's academic staff. The guests for 1996 were Professor Tom Bartlett, Dr Kim Knott, Professor Hugh McLeod, Professor John Peel, Dr Eamon Duffy, Dr Scott Thomas, Professor Sean Connolly and Professor Mark Noll. Discussing nationalism in Belfast, especially if one is an Englishman, might be compared, I remarked at the beginning of my second lecture, with the situation of Daniel in the den of lions, but, as I added, the point of the Daniel story was that the lions proved wonderfully friendly and so did the academics of Belfast. Their discussion was no less stimulating for that.
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