"In this volume, seventeen scholars from Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia present their research on the formation and transformation of national literary canons as a practice of nation-building in Central Europe and the Baltics. The articles focus on the shaping…
In this series of interconnected essays, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar offers a powerful revisionist analysis of the relationship between class and politics in India between the Mutiny and Independence. Dr Chandavarkar rejects the 'Orientalist' view of Indian social and economic devel…
Are Islam and the West on an inevitable collision course? What are the implications of events in Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Sudan, Pakistan, and the West? The World Trade Center bombing, Algeria's civil war and fears of a fundamentalist Islamic government, Sunni-Shii fratricide in Pa…
Ernest Gellner gir i denne boken en innføring i nasjonalismens vesen. Her tas det et grundig oppgjør med dem som hevder at nasjonalismen er urgammel og "naturlig". Nasjonalismen er tvertom et produkt av romantikken som er uløselig knyttet til moderniteten, hevder forfatteren. Ge…
