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"Three hundred years after its conception) the Anglo-Scottish Union is in serious difficulty. This is not because of a profound cultural divide between England and Scotland but because recent decades have seen the rebuilding of Scotland as a political community, while the ideolo…
"How did the arguments developed in the debate to abolish the slave trade help to construct a British national identity and character in the late eighteenth century? Srividhya Swaminathan examines books, pamphlets, and literary works to trace the changes in rhetorical strategies…
This work traces the development of Russian national consciousness from the time of the reforms of Peter the Great in the early-18th century, when ideas of nation and nationalism first penetrated Russia, up until Russia's current post-imperial identity crisis. It looks at nation…
A study of the history of the evolving relationship between mapping practices and conceptions of nationhood.
The book offers an opportunity to look at the genesis of national identity as it was constructed in a specific stateless and multicultural context through cultural transfer and the impact of the contemporary media. It explores Polish reactions to the Italian Risorgimento which a…
This dissertation investigates instances of identity building in the Americas at the close of the nineteenth century, particularly as they were expressed through the built environment. Three cities serve as case studies for the various ways in which leaders in the Americas built…
This dissertation critically analyzes and interprets the Italian migration-themed film production of the last decade [2010-2020], to provide an updated picture of the current audiovisual panorama concerning the topic of migration to and in Italy. More precisely, this thesis focu…
From the late sixteenth through the nineteenth century, Great Britain expanded across the globe building an empire in diverse regions of the world on every livable continent. British engagement in overseas expansion initiated new cross-cultural exchanges on an unprecedented scal…
Daltônico: The Myth of Brazil’s “Racial Democracy,” explores the construction of Brazilian national identity throughout the Twentieth century, aided by the analysis of three central cultures and ethnicities that are integral to an understanding of Brazilian race and identity. By…
According to Galina Krinitskaya, most acutely, the Russian national idea "manifested itself inRussian public thought and literature, through which the historical forecast of the future worldorder, and the role of Russia in this process, was revealed." The 1917 Revolution and the…
The imagination of the Chinese nation is a process continuing up to the present. As the Ethnic Classification Project was significant in the initial construction of the Chinese nation, education played an essential role in the latter part of the story. This paper focuses on the …
Higher education has become connected to the political debate around independence in Scotland, playing a significant role in both regular elections for the Scottish Parliament and in the debate around the 2014 Independence Referendum. Using the nationalism-social policy nexus as…
The study examined three factors in order to demonstrate and prove the effectiveness of implementing oral history in teaching social studies: teachers’ perceptions, teachers’ familiarity, and oral history’s effectiveness as a teaching approach. The goal of the study was to answe…
This dissertation argues that the defeat of the Second Republic in the Civil War (1939) and the subsequent dictatorship (1939–1975) disrupted a nation-building process in Spain due to the hegemonic power of National Catholicism, but the repressed identities —centralists and peri…