"In this major new study, Nicolas Tackett proposes that the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) witnessed both the maturation of an East Asian inter-state system and the emergence of a new worldview and sense of Chinese identity among educated elites. These developments together ha…
This text addresses the pitfalls of border drawing in post-WWI Europe, arguing that at international and local levels, the 'temptation of violence' made national self-determination problematic, as local elites, administrations and paramilitary leaders used ethnic notions of iden…
Introduction: "advancing the interests of private and political virtue": the stakes of the early American stage -- "The imitation of life": how men act -- American actors/acting American -- "O patriotism!/ thou wond'rous principle of God-like action!": the changing meanings of t…
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Race-The Sliding Signifier -- 2. Ethnicity and Difference in Global Times -- 3. Nations and Diasporas -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Editor's Acknowledgments -- Index
Race: the sliding signifier -- Ethnicity and difference in global times -- Nations and diasporas Identities are not something we are born with, Hall argues, but are formed and transformed in the discourses of nation, ethnicity, and race. Casting his glance over the modern age, …
