Nationalism in Europe & America

by Kramer, Lloyd

• ISBN13: 9780807872000
• ISBN10: 0807872008
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

Examining the history of nationalism's pervasive influence on modern politics and cultural identities, Lloyd Kramer discusses how nationalist ideas gained emotional and cultural power after the revolutionary upheavals in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Nationalism in Europe and Americaanalyzes the multiple historical contexts and intellectual themes that have shaped modern nationalist cultures, including the political claims for national sovereignty, the emergence of nationalist narratives in historical writing and literature, the fusion of nationalism and religion, and the overlapping conceptions of gender, families, race, and national identities. Kramer emphasizes the similarities in American and European nationalist thought, showing how European ideas about land, history, and national destiny flourished in the United States while American ideas about national independence and political rights reappeared among European nationalists and also influenced the rise of anticolonial nationalisms in twentieth-century Asia and Africa. By placing nationalist ideas and conflicts within the specific, cross-cultural framework of Atlantic history and extending his analysis to the twentieth-century world wars, Kramer offers readers a thoughtful perspective on nationalism's enduring political and cultural importance throughout the modern world.

Author Biography

Lloyd Kramer is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His books include Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and the Exile Experience in Paris, 1830-1848 and Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Nationalism and Modern World History	p. 1
The Cultural Meaning of Nationalism	p. 7
Politics, Revolutions, and National Sovereignty	p. 29
Land, Language, and Writing	p. 57
Religion, Sacrifice, and National Life	p. 81
Gender, Family, and Race	p. 102
The Cultural Construction of Nationalism in Early America	p. 125
Nationalism and Nation-States in the Modern World, 1870-1945	p. 147
Nationalism and Nation-States after 1945	p. 172
Conclusion: Continuity and Change in the History of Nationalism	p. 199
Notes	p. 203
Selected Bibliography	p. 233
Index	p. 247
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