Nations and Nationalisms in East-Central Europe, 1806-1948

Nations and Nationalisms in East-Central Europe, 1806-1948
Author: Peter F. Sugar
Publisher: Slavica Publishers
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN:

Ramet (political science, Norwegian U. of Science and Technology, Norway), Felak (East European history, U. of Washington, US), and Ellison (emeritus, Russian history and international studies, U. of Washington) present 16 essays (one is not in English) that deal with historical and historiographical issues of the development of nationalism and related questions. Broad themes explored in the essays include the different meanings attached to the nation and nationalism, typologies of nations, the relationship of nationalism to rural-urban cleavages, and the role of political activists in promoting or denigrating nationalism. A final essay discusses the academic contributions of festschrift honoree Sugar. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe

The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe
Author: T. Kamusella
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 1167
Release: 2008-12-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230583474

This work focuses on the ideological intertwining between Czech, Magyar, Polish and Slovak, and the corresponding nationalisms steeped in these languages. The analysis is set against the earlier political and ideological history of these languages, and the panorama of the emergence and political uses of other languages of the region.

Radical Right Parties in Central and Eastern Europe

Radical Right Parties in Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Bartek Pytlas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2015-10-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317495853

In Central and Eastern Europe, radical right actors significantly impact public debates and mainstream policy agenda. But despite this high discursive influence, the electoral fortune of radical right parties in the region is much less stable. It has been suggested that this may be due to the fact that mainstream competitors increasingly co-opt issues which are fundamental for the radical right. However, the extent to which such tactics play a role in radical right electoral success and failure is still a subject for debate. This book is the first to provide a systematic theoretical framework and in-depth empirical research on the interaction between discursive influence, party competition and the electoral fortune of radical right parties in Central and Eastern Europe. It argues that in order to fully explain the impact of mainstream party strategies in this regard, it is vital to widen the analysis beyond competition over issues themselves, and towards their various legitimizing narratives and frame ownership. Up-to-date debates over policies of collective identity (minority, morality and nationalizing politics) in Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia serve as best cases to observe these under-researched phenomena. The analytical model is evaluated comparatively using original, primary data combined with election studies and expert surveys. Advancing an innovative, fine-grained approach on the mechanisms and effects of party competition between radical right and mainstream parties, this book will be of interest to students and scholars researching the far right and European party politics, as well as political contestation and framing.

Historians and Nationalism

Historians and Nationalism
Author: Monika Baár
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2010-02-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 019157385X

Peripheral cultures have been largely absent from the European canon of historiography. Seeking to redress the balance, Monika Baár discusses the achievements of five East-Central European historians in the nineteenth century: Joachim Lelewel (Polish); Simonas Daukantas (Lithuanian); Frantisek Palacký (Czech); Mihály Horváth (Hungarian) and Mihail Kogalniceanu (Romanian). Comparing their efforts to promote a unified vision of national culture in their respective countries, Baár illuminates the complexities of historical writing in the region in the nineteenth century. Drawing on previously untranslated documents, Baár reconstructs the scholars' shared intellectual background and their nationalistic aims, arguing that historians on the European periphery made significant contributions to historical writing, and had far more in common with their Western and Central European contemporaries than has been previously assumed.

Creating the Other

Creating the Other
Author: Nancy M. Wingfield
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 1571813853

The historic myths of a people/nation usually play an important role in the creation and consolidation of the basic concepts from which the self-image of that nation derives. These concepts include not only images of the nation itself, but also images of other peoples. Although the construction of ethnic stereotypes during the "long" nineteenth century initially had other functions than simply the homogenization of the particular culture and the exclusion of "others" from the public sphere, the evaluation of peoples according to criteria that included "level of civilization" yielded "rankings" of ethnic groups within the Habsburg Monarchy. That provided the basis for later, more divisive ethnic characterizations of exclusive nationalism, as addressed in this volume that examines the roots and results of ethnic, nationalist, and racial conflict in the region from a variety of historical and theoretical perspectives.

Ideologies and National Identities

Ideologies and National Identities
Author: John R. Lampe
Publisher: Central European University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2004-01-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 6155053855

Twentieth-century Southeastern Europe endured three, separate decades of international and civil war, and was marred in forced migration and wrenching systematic changes. This book is the result of a year-long project by the Open Society Institute to examine and reappraise this tumultuous century. A cohort of young scholars with backgrounds in history, anthropology, political science, and comparative literature were brought together for this undertaking. The studies invite attention to fascism, socialism, and liberalism as well as nationalism and Communism. While most chapters deal with war and confrontation, they focus rather on the remembrance of such conflicts in shaping today's ideology and national identity.

Europe and the East

Europe and the East
Author: Mark Hewitson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2023-05-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000878783

This volume investigates competing ideas, images, and stereotypes of a European ‘East’, exploring its role in defining European and national conceptions of self and other since the eighteenth century. Through a set of original case studies, this collection explores the intersection between discourses about a more distant, exotic, or colonial ‘Orient’ with a more immediate ‘East’. The book considers this shifting, imaginary border from different points of view and demonstrates that the location, definition, and character of the ‘East’, often associated with socio-economic backwardness and other unfavourable attributes, depended on historical circumstances, political preferences, cultural assumptions, and geography. Spanning two centuries, this study analyses the ways that changing ideals and persistent clichéd attitudes have shaped the conversation about and interpretations of Eastern Europe. Europe and the East will be essential reading for anyone interested in images and ideas of Europe, European identity, and conceptions of the ‘East’ in intellectual and cultural history.

National Heroes and National Identities

National Heroes and National Identities
Author: Linas Eriksonas
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789052012001

This book investigates the concept of the heroic, questions what it is that makes the national hero an indispensable appendage to any possible interpretation of national identity, and asks why scholars stop short before coming to terms with this elusive phenomenon. It finds answers by following heroic traditions in Scotland, Norway and Lithuania from the early modern period to the twentieth century. The book argues that heroic traditions - prevailing trends in situating heroes in national history - owe much to the early modern state. Both national heroes and the nation state had been conceived with a similar moral political mindset that looked for new ways to identify sources for commonality. The confluence of political theory and Realpolitik attested to three classical types of polities, i.e. civitas popularis (democracy), regnum (kingship), and optimatium (aristocracy), as found at that time in Scotland, Norway and Lithuania respectively. The author shows the varied impact these patterns had on heroic traditions. The long record of national heroes in Scotland is explained as a vestige of the legacy of civic humanism, the continuing traditions of the heroic king-lines in Norway are seen as a result of long-standing absolutism, while the belated arrival of national heroes in Lithuania is excused by the country's aristocratic if at times oligarchic past.

Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of a New Europe

Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of a New Europe
Author: Philip V. Bohlman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2010-09-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 113692051X

Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe surveys the intersection of music and nationalism by tracing its historical development and documenting its persistence today. Contrasting different types of music reveals how music expresses core ideas of nationalism, for example, folk music in the nineteenth century and popular music in the twenty-first.