Advanced Introduction to Nationalism - Couverture souple

Greenfeld, Liah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1785362569 ISBN 13 : 9781785362569

Editeur : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.

This original Introduction presents nationalism as the most important social force shaping the ways modern men and women live their lives. It explains the formative influence of nationalism in the public spheres of politics and the economy, as well as in the most private ones of emotional life and mental illness. Along the way, it illuminates widely used but rarely clarified concepts, such as social institution, revolution, ideology, and totalitarianism, and introduces new ones, among them dignity capital and nationalism as the double-helix of modern politics. Basing its conclusions on over twenty-five years of original comparative historical research, this book bears the characteristic Liah Greenfeld imprint: fact-based discussion, logical rigor, unexpected connections, and an exceptionally wide range of issues weaved together to explain the way we live now.

Key features include:

• Discusses nationalism as an empirical phenomenon, not an object of speculation
• Distils findings of over twenty-five years of original comparative historical research
• Introduces original concepts of dignity capital and nationalism as the double-helix of modern politics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Liah Greenfeld, University Professor and Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Anthropology, Boston University, US

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1785362569
• ISBN 13: 9781785362569
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible