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China is fast becoming the next superpower - a rise that presents a challenge to the world economically, politically and culturally. Drawing on extensive new Chinese sources, Professor Callahan sheds light on how Chinese people understand their changing place, and what that migh…
"In the late 1830s an uprising of mestizos and Maya destroyed Guatemala's Liberal government for imposing reforms aimed at expanding the state, assimilating indigenous peoples, and encouraging commercial agriculture. Liberal partisans were unable to retake the state until 1871, …
A decline in public expenditure has affected cherished national institutions & values in Costa Rica, with the blame tending to be placed on immigrant Nicaraguans. This book explores the construction of the 'other' in Costa Rican imagery & considers the role of national identific…
Nationalism and war
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Has the emergence of nationalism made warfare more brutal? Does strong nationalist identification increase efficiency in fighting? Is nationalism the cause or consequence of the breakdown of imperialism? What is the role of victories and defeats in the formation of national iden…
"From the eighteenth century until its collapse in 1917, Imperial Russia - as distinct from Muscovite Russia before it and Soviet Russia after it - officially held that the Russian nation consisted of three branches: Great Russian, Little Russian (Ukrainian), and White Russian (…
His book provides a state-of-the-art account of how people's subjective sense of national identity, and attitudes towards countries and national groups, develop through the course of childhood and adolescence. It offers a comprehensive review of the research which has been condu…
Impossible citizens: Dubai's Indian diaspora
by Vora, Neha
fromE-Duke books scholarly collection
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Indian communities have existed in the Gulf emirate of Dubai for more than a century. Since the 1970s, workers from South Asia have flooded into the emirate, enabling Dubai's huge construction boom. They now comprise its largest noncitizen population. Though many migrant familie…
In Making Yugoslavs, Christian Axboe Nielsen uses extensive archival research to explain the failure of the dictatorship'ss program of forced nationalization. Focusing on how ordinary Yugoslavs responded to Aleksandar'ss nationalization project, the book illuminates an often-ign…
Agius argues that Swedish neutrality is an embedded part of Swedish identity, and its domestic sources stem from the ideology of social democracy. She suggests that the norms of active neutrality can be reworked to contribute to a cosmopolitan international order.
"The book shows how national days are best understood in the context of debates about national identity. It argues that national days are contested and manipulated, as well as subject to political, cultural and social pressure. It brings together some of the most recent research…