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Myth Of Nations The Medieval Origins of Europe

Name: Myth Of Nations
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Author: Patrick J. Geary

Auteur: Patrick J. Geary

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Patrick J. Geary

Engels
Paperback
9780691114811
02 februari 2003
216 pagina's

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Offers an analysis, which contrasts the myths with the actual history of Europe's transformation between the fourth and ninth centuries - the period of grand migrations that nationalists hold dear.

Modern-day Europeans by the millions proudly trace back their national identities to the Celts, Franks, Gauls, Goths, Huns, or Serbs--or some combination of the various peoples who inhabited, traversed, or pillaged their continent more than a thousand years ago. According to Patrick Geary, this is historical nonsense. The idea that national character is fixed for all time in a simpler, distant past is groundless, he argues in this unflinching reconsideration of European nationhood. Few of the peoples that many Europeans honor as sharing their sense of "nation" had comparably homogeneous identities; even the Huns, he points out, were firmly united only under Attila's ten-year reign. Geary dismantles the nationalist myths about how the nations of Europe were born. Through rigorous analysis set in lucid prose, he contrasts the myths with the actual history of Europe's transformation between the fourth and ninth centuries--the period of grand migrations that nationalists hold dear. The nationalist sentiments today increasingly taken for granted in Europe emerged, he argues, only in the nineteenth century. Ironically, this phenomenon was kept alive not just by responsive populations--but by complicit scholars. Ultimately, Geary concludes, the actual formation of European peoples must be seen as an extended process that began in antiquity and continues in the present. The resulting image is a challenge to those who anchor contemporary antagonisms in ancient myths--to those who claim that immigration and tolerance toward minorities despoil "nationhood." As Geary shows, such ideologues--whether Le Pens who champion "the French people born with the baptism of Clovis in 496" or Milosevics who cite early Serbian history to claim rebellious regions--know their myths but not their history. The Myth of Nations will be intensely debated by all who understood that a history that does not change, that reduces the complexities of many centuries to a single, eternal moment, isn't history at all.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 02 februari 2003
Aantal pagina's: 216
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Patrick J. Geary
Hoofduitgeverij: Princeton University Press

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Editie: New title
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 152 mm
Product hoogte: 19 mm
Product lengte: 229 mm
Studieboek: Ja
Verpakking breedte: 157 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 234 mm
Verpakking lengte: 10 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 401 g

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EAN: 9780691114811

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Geschiedenis

Politiek

Europa

Politieke ideologieen

Nationalisme

Regio's & Landen

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Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
Periode: Oudheid, Middeleeuwen
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Taal: Engels

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- Carlodilucca
- 60-69 jaar
- Maastricht
- 28 oktober 2014
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This book, together with other books of the same writer Patrick J. Geary, is a good lecture explaining the real frameworks that made possible the creation of the Idea of Nation and in particular the idea of distinct People.
As the world is always been, there are no real People, all populations are a mixing of several different populations that are also coming from previous mixing.
The fenomena we experience today with the migration of people are exactly the same as they happened in the past.
It is the human brain that tries to organize the Historical data in a pattern that make sense.
The use of this data organization for political usage and to claim different rights for different people based on Historical evidence, is in most case incorrect and inopportune.
On this wrong ideas is based Racism.

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