"Invoked by politicians, promoted in policy, and sought by migrants, citizenship is a crucial marker of what makes being a member of society valuable, and of what membership entails in a world of fluid boundaries. This volume explores questions of admission to the state and to c…
"Invoked by politicians, promoted in policy, and sought by migrants, citizenship is a crucial marker of what makes being a member of society valuable, and of what membership entails in a world of fluid boundaries. This volume explores questions of admission to the state and to c…
"Invoked by politicians, promoted in policy, and sought by migrants, citizenship is a crucial marker of what makes being a member of society valuable, and of what membership entails in a world of fluid boundaries. This volume explores questions of admission to the state and to c…
Shows that the Israeli national myth has its origins in the 19th century, rather than in biblical times when Jewish historians, like scholars in many other cultures, reconstituted an imagined people in order to model a future nation. This book demonstrates the construction of a …
"Reinventing India examines the history of modern India and its contemporary transformation, providing a lucid and eminently readable of the changes which are shaking India today."--Jacket.
"Reinventing India examines the history of modern India and its contemporary transformation, providing a lucid and eminently readable of the changes which are shaking India today."--Jacket.
When India was invented as a ""modern"" country in the years after Independence in 1947 it styled itself as a secular, federal, democratic Republic committed to an ideology of development. Nehru's India never quite fulfilled this promise, but more recently his vision of India ha…
"Reinventing India examines the history of modern India and its contemporary transformation, providing a lucid and eminently readable of the changes which are shaking India today."--Jacket.
"Timothy Sisk explores international efforts to help the world's most fragile post-civil war countries today build viable states that can provide for security and deliver the basic services essential for development. Tracing the historical roots of statebuilding to the present d…
