Nations as Zones of Conflict
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: December 8, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780761957270
Subjects: Violence in society; Political Science; International relations; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Sociology - General; History & Theory - General; International Relations - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Essays; National state; Nationalism
First sentence: E. H. Carr recounts with malicious wit the example of the eminent historian Herbert Butterfield who, in 1931, published The Whig Interpretation of History, a devastating polemic against that quintessential English national myth: the conception of English history as a story of the realisation of a spirit of liberty under the leadership of a patriotic landed class.