Building the Nation, Dreaming of War: Nation-Building through Mythologies of Conflict
Channel: AskHistorians
Date: 2020-09-17

This panel explores how people build national communities and identities through shared memories of conflict or fears of future war. A state is geographic borders and autonomy. But how do you unite people into a social and cultural nation? This panel explores the history-based stories—the mythologies—that different nations have sought to use to define themselves. The papers investigate cases in which memories and fears of past and future warfare have crafted a new, national identity.
Learn more about this panel at: https://www.askhistorians.com/building-the-nation

Featured in this panel are:

"''Building a nation, dreaming its destruction': Australian Federation and Fantasies of War", by Liam Connell
"War: The Defining Catastrophe of 17th Century Moldavia", by Andrei Oprea
"The Balkan Wars from an Ottoman Perspective: Rupture as Creative Destruction?", by Buğra Can Bayçifçi
"‘Behold the Heresiarch’: Jan Hus, Mythologies, and Nationalism in Postwar Czechoslovakia", by Cullan Bendig

Moderated by Juan Sebastián Lewin
Captioning courtesy of Ryan Abt

This panel is part of the AskHistorians 2020 Digital Conference. For more Conference content, please go to: https://www.askhistorians.com/2020-digital-conference