MODERN ROOTS by Alain Dieckhoff, Natividad Gutierrez, Ms Liana Giorgi ( 9780754611523 )

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Title:

MODERN ROOTS
STUDIES OF NATIONAL IDENTITY

By:

Alain Dieckhoff, Natividad Gutierrez, Ms Liana Giorgi

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0754611523

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9780754611523

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

21 March, 2001

Series:

In Association with ICCR Contemporary Trends in European Social Sciences

Pages:

318

Description:

This volume offers a view of national identity as a cultural system of information which bestows historical meaning and social cohesion on modern political communities. It reveals how diverse and vast themes of national identification can be, but also how similar expectations of identity can be.

Synopsis:

Interest in the study of national identity as a collective phenomenon is a growing concern among the social and political sciences. This book addresses the scholarly interest in examining the origins of ideologies and social practices that give historical meaning, cohesion and uniqueness to modern national communities. It focuses on the various routes taken towards the construction of cultural authenticity as an inspirational purpose of nation-building and reveals the diversity of the themes, practices and symbols used to encourage self-identification and communality. Among the techniques explored are the dramatization of suffering and tragedy, the exaltation of heroes and deeds, the evocation of landscape, nature and the arts and the delimitation of collective values to be pursued during reconstruction in post-war periods.

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