Nations as Zones of Conflict

Klappentext This compelling book argues that it is wrong to assume that nations are culturally uniform. Hutchinson provocatively asserts that resting on older diverse ethnic identities, nations adapt from the unpredictable challenges of modernity, and such plurality makes them prone to cultural wars. Zusammenfassung This compelling book argues that it is wrong to assume that nations are culturally uniform. Hutchinson provocatively asserts that resting on older diverse ethnic identities! nations adapt from the unpredictable challenges of modernity! and such plurality makes them prone to cultural wars. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction An Alternative Model Organisation PART ONE: ZONES OF CONFLICT Introduction The Modernist Critique Ethnosymbolists and Recurring Factors Ethnogenetic Factors Ethnie as Social and Political Actors The Rise of States and Modern Processes Ethnic Continuities and Modern Nations Conclusions PART TWO: THE REVIVALIST REVOLUTION Introduction Romanticism as an Ethnocultural Movement National Revivalism and Social Transformation Moral Innovators National Sacrifice and Mythic Overlaying Conclusions PART THREE: CULTURAL WARS Introduction Cultural Wars in Modern Nations The Roots of Conflict Significance and Consequences Polarisation The Elaboration of a National Identity Persisting Differences Conclusions PART FOUR: HOT AND BANAL NATIONALISMS Introduction The Rise of the Mass Nation Nationalism from below Patterns of Mass Identification with the Nation Fluctuating Identities Banal Nationalism Conclusions PART FIVE: NATIONALISM AND THE CLASH OF CIVILISATIONS Introduction Globalisation and Nationalism Regionalism European Union and the National States The Clash of Civilisations Conclusions

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Introduction
An Alternative Model
Organisation
PART ONE: ZONES OF CONFLICT
Introduction
The Modernist Critique
Ethnosymbolists and Recurring Factors
Ethnogenetic Factors
Ethnie as Social and Political Actors
The Rise of States and Modern Processes
Ethnic Continuities and Modern Nations
Conclusions
PART TWO: THE REVIVALIST REVOLUTION
Introduction
Romanticism as an Ethnocultural Movement
National Revivalism and Social Transformation
Moral Innovators
National Sacrifice and Mythic Overlaying
Conclusions
PART THREE: CULTURAL WARS
Introduction
Cultural Wars in Modern Nations
The Roots of Conflict
Significance and Consequences
Polarisation
The Elaboration of a National Identity
Persisting Differences
Conclusions
PART FOUR: HOT AND BANAL NATIONALISMS
Introduction
The Rise of the Mass Nation
Nationalism from below
Patterns of Mass Identification with the Nation
Fluctuating Identities
Banal Nationalism
Conclusions
PART FIVE: NATIONALISM AND THE CLASH OF CIVILISATIONS
Introduction
Globalisation and Nationalism
Regionalism
European Union and the National States
The Clash of Civilisations
Conclusions