Nationalism reframed
Subtitle: nationhood and the national question in the New Europe
By: Rogers Brubaker.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Nationalism -- Europe, Eastern.; Nationalism -- Former Soviet Republics.; Nationalism -- Europe.; Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1989-; Former Soviet republics -- Politics and government.; Europe -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Other titles: Nationhood and the national question in the New Europe
Description: The birthplace of the nation-state and modern nationalism at the end of the eighteenth century, Europe was supposed to be their graveyard at the end of the twentieth. Yet, far from moving beyond the nation-state, fin-de-siècle Europe has been moving back to the nation-state, most spectacularly with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia into a score of nationally defined successor states. This massive reorganisation of political space along national lines has engendered distinctive, dynamically interlocking, and in some cases explosive forms of nationalism. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu and the 'new institutionalist' sociology, and comparing contemporary nationalisms with those of interwar Europe, Rogers Brubaker provides a theoretically sophisticated and historically rich account of one of the most important problems facing the 'New Europe'.--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-192) and index.