| Modernism: The Creation of Nation States Contributor(s): Ersoy, Ahmet (Editor), Gorny, Maciej (Editor), Kechriotis, Vangelis (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9637326618 ISBN-13: 9789637326615 Publisher: Central European University Press OUR PRICE: $105.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2010 Annotation: The first volume in a series to be brought out by the middle of 2007 in altogether four books. The series is a daring undertaking of CEU Press, presenting the most important texts that triggered and shaped the processes of nation-building in the many countries of Central and Southeast Europe. The project brought together scholars from Albania, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, the Republic of Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey. The editors have created a new interpretative synthesis that challenges the self-centered and "isolationist" historical narratives and educational canons prevalent in the region, in the spirit of of "coming to terms with the past." The main aim of the venture is to confront 'mainstream' and seemingly successful national discourses with each other, thus creating a space for analyzing those narratives of identity which became institutionalized as "national canons." The series will broaden the field of possible comparisons of the respective national cultures. Each text is accompanied by a presentation of the author, and by an analysis of the context in which the respective text was born. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Eastern Europe - General |
| Dewey: 940 |
| LCCN: 2009051960 |
| Series: Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770-1945) |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.85 lbs) 496 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume presents and illustrates the development of the ideologies of nation states, the "modern" successors of former empires. They exemplify the use modernist ideological framaeworks, from liberalism to socialism, in the context of the fundamental reconfiguration of the political system in this part of Europe between the 1860s and the 1930s. It also gives a panorama of the various solutions proposed for the national question in the region. |
