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Constructing industrial pasts : heritage, historical culture and identity in regions undergoing structural economic transformation
\"Since the 1960s, nations across the \"developed world\" have been profoundly shaped by deindustrialization. In regions in which previously dominant industries faced crises or have disappeared altogether, industrial heritage offers a fascinating window into the phenomenon's cultural dimensions. As the contributions to this volume demonstrate, even as forms of industrial heritage provide anchors of identity for local populations, their meanings remain deeply contested, as both radical and conservative varieties of nostalgia intermingle with critical approaches and straightforward apologias for a past that was often full of pain, exploitation and struggle\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Nationalism and the Economy
This book is the first attempt to bridge the current divide between studies addressing ‘economic nationalism’ as a deliberate ideology and movement of economic ‘nation-building’, and the literature concerned with more diffuse expressions of economic ‘nationness’ – from national economic symbols and memories, to the ‘banal’ world of product communicationThe editors seeks to highlight the importance of economic issues for the study of nations and nationalism, and its findings point to the need to give economic phenomena a more prominent place in the field of nationalism studies. The authors of the essays come from disciplines as diverse as economic and cultural history, political science, business studies, as well as sociology and anthropology. Their chapters address the nationalism-economy nexus in a variety of realms, including trade, foreign investment, and national control over resources, as well as consumption, migration, and welfare state policies. Some of the case studies have a historical focus on nation-building in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, while others are concerned with contemporary developments. Several contributions provide in-depth analyses of single cases while others employ a comparative method. The geographical focus of the contributions vary widely, although, on balance, the majority of our authors deal with European countries.
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The transnational activist : transformations and comparisons from the Anglo-world since the nineteenth century
\"This book provides the first historical and comparative study of the 'transnational activist.' A range of important recent scholarship has considered the rise of global social movements, the presence of transnational networks, and the transfer or diffusion of political techniques. Much of this writing has registered the pivotal role of 'transnational' or 'global' activists. However, if the significance of the 'transnational activist' is now routinely acknowledged, then the history of this actor is still something of a mystery. Most commentators have associated the figure with contemporary history. Hence much of the debate around 'transnational activism' is ahistorical, and claims for novelty are not often based on developed historical comparison. As this volume argues, it is possible to identify the 'transnational activist' in earlier decades and even centuries. But when did this figure first appear? What are the historical conditions that nurtured its emergence? What are the principal moments in the development of the transnational activist? And do the transnational activists of the Internet age differ in number or nature from those of earlier years? These historical questions will be at the heart of this volume.\"--Page 4 of cover.
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History and belonging
In cultural and intellectual terms, one of the EU’s most important objectives in pursuing unification has been to develop a common historical narrative of Europe. Across ten compelling case studies, this volume examines the premises underlying such a project to ask: Could such an uncontested history of Europe ever exist? Combining studies of national politics, supranational institutions, and the fraught EU-Mideast periphery with a particular focus on the twentieth century, the contributors to History and Belonging offer a fascinating survey of the attempt to forge a post-national identity politics.
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Nationalizing Empires
The essays in Nationalizing Empires challenge the dichotomy between empire and nation state that for decades has dominated historiography. The authors center their attention on nation-building in the imperial core and maintain that the nineteenth century, rather than the age of nation-states, was the age of empires and nationalism. They identify a number of instances where nation building projects in the imperial metropolis aimed at the preservation and extension of empires rather than at their dissolution or the transformation of entire empires into nation states. Such observations have until recently largely escaped theoretical reflection.
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The Engaged Historian
On the surface, historical scholarship might seem thoroughly
incompatible with political engagement: the ideal historian, many
imagine, is a disinterested observer focused exclusively on the
past. In truth, however, political action and historical research
have been deeply intertwined for as long as the historical
profession has existed. In this insightful collection, practicing
historians analyze, reflect on, and share their experiences of this
complex relationship. From the influence of historical scholarship
on world political leaders to the present-day participation of
researchers in post-conflict societies and the Occupy movement,
these studies afford distinctive, humane, and stimulating views on
historical practice and practitioners
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Musik und Reformation
Das Reformationsjubilaum im Jahr 2017 ging mit einer kulturellen Wende' in der Forschung einher. Musik, Literatur, Kunst, Alltags- und Frommigkeitskultur werden mit wachsender Selbstverstandlichkeit als reformationsrelevante Gegenstande behandelt. Der vorliegende Band untersucht zum einen, wie sich Reformationspolitik, konfessionelle Propaganda, Mission und Kolonialisierung in den verschiedenen Kunsten und Kulturformen widerspiegeln, zum anderen wie diese Kunste und Kulturformen ihrerseits den Prozess der Reformation pragten. Im Zentrum des Bandes steht die Musik, ihr zur Seite stehen theologische, alltagshistorische, literatur- und kunstwissenschaftliche Beitrage.
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