Myths and nationhood
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Myths and nationhood
Hurst, in association with the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 1997
- cased
- paper
Available at 11 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this volume, a group of specialists look at the general and theoretical nature of myth on a universal basis, and examine the specific myths of various nations. The aim is to try and illuminate the deeper, underlying issues of nationalism that cause so much conflict throughout the world.
Table of Contents
- The "Golden Age" and national revival
- a taxonomy of myths
- the role of myths - an anthropological perspective
- the myth of European unity
- myth-making and national identity - the case of the GDR
- making history - myth and the construction of American nationhood
- the myth of divine election and Afrikaaner ethnogenesis
- national myths in the new Czech liberalism
- Polish national mythologies
- national mythology in Latvia
- East European Jewry and the myth of Zion
- the Russian national myth repudiated
- myths of national history in Belarus and Ukraine.
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