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ISBN 10: 0582506026
ISBN 13: 9780582506022
Author: RJB Bosworth

So you think you know what makes the world go round? Read about the ideas that revolutionized the 20th century.
The twentieth century was a period of seismic change on a global scale, witnessing two world wars, the rise and fall of communism, the establishment of a global economy, the beginnings of global warming and a complete reversal in the status of women in large parts of the world.
Many of these changes were brought about thanks to powerful ideologies – ‘big ideas’ that irrevocably altered the way humans viewed their world. Short Histories of Big Ideas are brief, easy-to-understand introductions to the ideologies that shaped the twentieth century. Each volume explains the key aspects of an idea and provides a concise history of its growth and influence on our world perspective.
“Nationalism is a fresh and refreshing exploration of this seemingly inextinguishable phenomenon that deserves to be widely read and its message taken very seriously. [I]t is [both] deeply learned and unobtrusively analytical, [as well as] openly personal, spikily argumentative and; yes, critical of a current of ideology, culture and politics the author considers neither natural nor, over time, beneficial to the human species.” Martin Blinkhorn, Professor Emeritus of Modern European History, Lancaster University
Should nationalism be rejected in a civilised world?
Why do many of us swell with pride at the sound of the national anthem or sight of the national flag? Why do we use our nationalities to describe who we are? Why do politicians claim to stand for ‘national values’ above all else?
In his new critical study of nationalism, R.J.B. Bosworth explores the origins and purpose of the division of human kind into national groupings. The book explores the history of nationalism, arguing that the present is seeing a dangerous growth of what might be called ‘national fundamentalism’. Bosworth suggests that nations work best when they possess the ability to criticize their nationalism. They become menacing when they demand the nationalization of people’s empathy, lauding ‘national values’, for example, rather than humane or civilized ones. Nationalism demonstrates how the globalizing world is seeing a renaissance and adaptation of ideas that were prevalent in the inter-war period, and challenges us to decide whether we should reject nationalist fundamentalism in a civilized world.
R.J.B. Bosworth is the author of twenty books, the most recent of which, Mussolini (2002) and Mussolini’s Italy (2005), have been multiple prize winners in his native Australia .

Nationalism 1st Edition Table of contents:

Chapter 1. Nationalism: strengths and contradictions, truths and lies
The lie of the nation
The lie of the land
Forked tongues
Rags on dungheaps
En-chant-ed by the nation
History yoked
Notes
Chapter 2. Nationalism before nations; nations before nationalism
The eternal nation?
England for ever
Eternal France
The Croat Adam
Eternity questioned
The multicultural empire: Rome
The multicultural empire: China
Other empires
The identity of the stateless
The moving border
Eighteenth-century forgings
Notes
Chapter 3. Nation, nationalism and revolution 1789–1914
1789 and all that
Warring the nation (part one)
Thinking the nation
The Restoration and its national discontents
National revolution
National counter-revolution
The Polish model
Nationalizing empires
Imperialized empires
Racialized nations
The national and racial unconscious
Notes
Chapter 4. Imperial, national, racial and world war, 1914–45
The First World War and the Serb people
The First World War
The First World War and all the Russias
The First World War and the Italian nation
Woodrow Wilson and a liberal, capitalist and national peace
Wilson versus Lenin
Adolf Hitler: Wilsonian?
Self-determination and its discontents
Self-determination and its discontents: (i) Romania
Self-determination and its discontents: (ii) the Spains
Self-determination and its discontents: (iii) the United Kingdom
Self-determination and its discontents: (iv) Japan
The Second World War
Ethnic cleansings and national holocausts for all
Notes
Chapter 5. International Marxism and the nation
The International and the nations
International revolution in Russia
Stalin and the nation
The Finnish case
First peoples and the Soviet nation
The case of the Ukraine
Soviet nation or nations
The Soviets and the Jews
The late USSR and the nation
The new Russia and the nation
Yugoslavia and the nation
Notes
Chapter 6. Minorities old and new, and the nation since 1945
Globalization and its discontents
The case of Australia
Multiculturalism for all
The case of the USA
The case of Jewish America
Holocausts for all
Religion, national and Christian
The case of Israel
The nations against terror
Nations in the wider world
Notes
Short bibliography
Index

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