The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism: Volume 2, Nationalism's Fields of Interaction

Description

This major new reference work with contributions from an international team of scholars provides a comprehensive account of ideas and practices of nationhood and nationalism from antiquity to the present. It considers both continuities and discontinuities, engaging critically and analytically with the scholarly literature in the field. In volume II, leading scholars in their fields explore the dynamics of nationhood and nationalism's interactions with a wide variety of cultural practices and social institutions - in addition to the phenomenon's crucial political dimensions. The relationships between imperialism and nationhood/nationalism and between major world religions and ethno-national identities are among the key themes explained and explored. The wide range of case studies from around the world brings a truly global, comparative perspective to a field whose study was long constrained by Eurocentric assumptions.

Cathie Carmichael is Professor of European History at the University of East Anglia. She has authored and edited several previous books including Language and Nationalism in Europe, co-edited with the late Stephen Barbour (2000) and Genocide before the Holocaust (2009). Matthew D'Auria is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of The Shaping of French National Identity: Narrating the Nation's Past, 1715-1830 (2020). Aviel Roshwald is Professor of History at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. His publications include Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires: Central Europe, Russia and the Middle East, 1914-1923 (2001) and The Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas (2006).