This book explores the emergence of national identities among the Indigenous peoples of North America. It examines the problems Native communities have faced in asserting themselves as nations and broadens our understanding of Native American nationalism including a va... Lees meer.

This important December 2017 report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Why are Americans identity narratives important for national security. This thesis utilizes a qualitative approach to analyze American identity... Lees meer.

Reflecting on the relationship between memory power and national identity this book examines the complex reactions of the people of the Caribbean to the 500th anniversary of Columbus s discovery of the New World. Viala analyzes the ways in which Columbus became a res... Lees meer.

This volume combines theoretical analysis with a rich set of case studies to understand how national identity is negotiated across spatial scales. As nationalism and identity have continued as critical global flashpoints this book provides the only up-to-date comprehe... Lees meer.

This book seeks to retrieve the lives of two extraordinary individuals who have disappeared from the story of African nationalism in South Africa. Petros Lamula and Lymon Maling were profoundly influential political figures in Natal and Zululand between 1910 and 1940. L... Lees meer.

This book brings together a number of case studies on the ethnic and regional dimensions of Chinese politics and society. Western political scientists have tended to neglect the ethnic dimension in China and have overemphasized the development from large empire to u... Lees meer.

Nationalism was a defining characteristic of Turkey in the 20th century. How did this affect its people and politics. This book explores the historical impact both gains and setbacks of nationalist thinking and examines the conditions which have contributed to the co... Lees meer.

What role does race geography religion orthography and nationalism play in the crafting of identities. What are the origins of Singlish. This book offers a thorough investigation of old and new identities in Asia s most global city examined through the lens of lan... Lees meer.

This book analyses the concept of patriotism and the contestation over its meaning in key public debates in Poland over the last twenty-five years. It focuses on the strategies used to define re-shape and bend the notion of patriotism which during this period has b... Lees meer.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union nation building and identity construction in the post-socialist region have been the subject of extensive academic research. The majority of these studies have taken a top-down approach - focusing on the variety of ways in which... Lees meer.

Inspired by debates among political scientists over the strength and depth of the pre-modern roots of nationalism this study attempts to gauge the status of ethnic identities in an era whose dominant loyalties and modes of political argument were confessional institut... Lees meer.

Identities Nationalism and the State. The Politics of Ethnicity and Minority Regimes in the Middle East calls attention to the question of how minorities position and represent themselves during and after regime transitions and the dilemmas that minorities pose to r... Lees meer.

Explores how questions of national identity become entangled with environmental concerns in Bangladesh Nepal and India. This work provides an insight into the motivations of national governments in managing nature and deals with the different kinds of regional politi... Lees meer.

Nationalism has recently been the focus of considerable interest but relatively little is known about nation-building and competing identities in Spain and Portugal. In examining the roots of Iberian nationalism and the conflicts and tensions which have come to the fo... Lees meer.

Nationalism was a defining characteristic of Turkey in the twentieth century and was a central driving force in Kemal Ataturk s foundation of the Republic in 1923. How did the prominence of Kemalist ways of political thinking affect its people and policies. Is Turkey... Lees meer.