Title: Secession, history and the social sciences /
Authors: Coppieters, Bruno.; Huysseune, Michel, 1959-
Publisher: VUB Brussels University Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Secession.; Separatist movements.; Social sciences Methodology; History Methodology; Intellectuals Political activity.; Intellectual life.
Contents: Ukrainian social knowledge and secession / Ivan M. Myhul -- 'The patience of a nation is measured in centuries' : national revival in Tatarstan and historiography / Alexei Zverev -- In defence of the homeland : intellectuals and the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict / Bruno Coppieters -- Nationalism and history : rewriting the Chechen national past / Moshe Gammer -- The disintegration of the Yugoslav intellectual community / Robert Stallaerts -- Bargaining from strength : historical writing and political autonomy in late-twentieth-century Quebec / Ronald Rudin -- Reconstruction of the past in Belgium and Flanders / Louis Vos -- Imagined geographies : political and scientific discourses on Italy's North-South divide / Michel Huysseune -- Intellectual discourses in the Taiwan independence movement / Xiaokun Song -- An endless cycle of secessionism : intellectuals and separatist movements in Nigeria / Raphael Chijioke Njoku.