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.