Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa provides a conceptual framework for analysing dynamic processes of state-making in Africa. Features a conceptual framework which provides a method for analysing the everyday making, contestation, and negotiation o…
Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa provides a conceptual framework for analysing dynamic processes of state-making in Africa.℗¡Features a conceptual framework which provides a method for analysing the everyday making, contestation, and negotiation …
"This book examines the ways in which the Swiss defined their national identity in the long nineteenth century, in the face of a changing domestic and international background, and it challenges both functionalist and constructivist approaches to the study of nationalism." "Its …
Between the 4th and 8th century, a number of "experimental" politics had to create new forms of legitimacy and organization to overcome a Roman world based on empire, city and tribe. In the course of time, a new world developed that relied on Christendom, kingdom and people to p…
Since the fall of the Ceausescu regime, Romanian politics have been haunted by unresolved issues of the past. In a book that will be essential for those concerned with the problem of nationalism in the contemporary world, Irina Livezeanu examines a critical chapter in Eastern Eu…
Exploring the emergence and evolution of theories of nationhood that continue to be evoked in present-day Japan, Susan L. Burns provides a close examination of the late-eighteenth-century intellectual movement kokugaku, which means "the study of our country." Departing from earl…
Shows how a modern nationalism was constructed in Japan from existing notions of community, at a time before the idea of "nation."
Historiography of India during 1930-50 period.
