Schopflin / Hosking Myths and Nationhood

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-67717-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schopflin, George

Hosking, Geoffrey

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
The Contributors
Chapters
The Role of Myth: An Anthropological Perspective, or:'The Reality of the Really Made-Up'
Joanna Overing
The Functions of Myth and a Taxonomy of Myths
George Schopflin
The 'Golden Age' and National renewal
Anthony Smith
The Myth of European Unity
Sonja Puntscher Riekmann
Myth-Making and National Identity: The Case of the GDR
Mary Fulbrook
Making History: Myth and the Construction of American Nationhood
Susan-Mary Grant
They Myth of Divine Election and Afrikaner Ethnogenesis
Bruce Cauthen
National Myths in the New Czech Liberalism
Kieran Williams
Polish National Mythologies
Norman Davies
National Mythology in the History of Ideas in Latvia: A View from Religious Studies
Agita Misane and Aija Priedite
The Myth of Zion among East European Jewry
John D. Klier
Myths of National History in Belarus and Ukraine
Andrew Wilson
The Russian National Myth Repudiated
Geoffrey Hosking Davies

Über Autor(innen)

George Schopflin is Senior Lecturer in Politics at S.S.E.E.S., University of London. His books include Politics in Eastern Europe, 1945-1992 (1995). Geoffrey Hosking is Professor of Russian History and Deputy Director of S.S.E.E.S., University of London. His book Russia: Empire and People will be published by Harper Collins in 1997.