Product Description: Drawing on case studies from around the globe, this provocative, accessible volume challenges the way we think about nationalism.During the Cold War, nationalism fell from favor among theorists as an explanatory factor in history, as Marxists and liberals looked to class and individualism as the driving forces of change...read more

Product Description: An expert on the Taliban's modern habits and practices, Antonio Giustozzi asserts a controversial point about the role of violence and coercion in state building, which also happens to be relevant to liberal interventionism. Liberal interventionism's dominant discourse dangerously neglects the role of coercion and the monopoly of violence in the countries it purports to aid...read more

Product Description: Numerous nations have in one way or another engaged with the cultures of classical Greece and Rome. What impact does the classical past have on ideas of the nation, nationhood, nationality, and what effect does the national space have on classical culture? How has classical culture been imagined in various national traditions, what importance has it had within them, and for whom? This collection of essays by an international team of experts tackles the vexed relationship between Classics and national cultures, presenting essays on many regions, including China, India, Mexico, Japan, and South Africa, as well as Germany, Greece, and Italy...read more

Product Description: In light of a renewed interest in the study of nationalism, Contemporary Majority Nationalism brings together a group of major scholars committed to making sense of this widespread phenomenon. To better illustrate the reality of majority nationalism and the way it has been expressed, authors combine analytical and comparative perspectives...read more

Product Description: Since 1989, Europe’s eastern rim has been in constant flux. This collection focuses on how political and economic transformations have triggered redefinitions of cultural identity. Using discursive modes of identity construction (deconstruction, reconstruction, reformulation, and invention) the book focuses on the creation of opposition to old and new 'outsiders' and 'insiders' in Europe...read more

The second edition of The Ethnicity Reader offers acomprehensive and engaging selection of readings for students ofsociology, politics, international relations and race relations.Updated with a large proportion of new readings and extendededitorial summaries, the reader analyses the ethnic componentpresent in nationalism, multiculturalism and migration, making itindispensable to those seeking to understand the relevance ofethnicity as one of the most prominent forces in the modern world. Drawing on a wide range of examples, the selections includedexamine theories of nationalism and consider issues of ethnicintegration and conflict in the USA, Middle East, Northern Ireland,Scotland, Quebec and Catalonia among other countries and regions.The concept of ethnicity, however, is discussed not only inrelation to group rights in existing nation-states: many of theselections deal with the role of ethnicity in groups which are notnationalist at all but for which ethnicity is an important factorin the process of migration, extending the focus to transnationalcommunities in a globalized world.Contributors include Benedict Anderson, Etienne Balibar, JamesClifford, Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Keating, Will Kymlicka, TariqModood, John Rex, Anthony D. Smith, Michel Wieviorka, and FrankeWilmer.

The second edition of The Ethnicity Reader offers acomprehensive and engaging selection of readings for students ofsociology, politics, international relations and race relations.Updated with a large proportion of new readings and extendededitorial summaries, the reader analyses the ethnic componentpresent in nationalism, multiculturalism and migration, making itindispensable to those seeking to understand the relevance ofethnicity as one of the most prominent forces in the modern world. Drawing on a wide range of examples, the selections includedexamine theories of nationalism and consider issues of ethnicintegration and conflict in the USA, Middle East, Northern Ireland,Scotland, Quebec and Catalonia among other countries and regions.The concept of ethnicity, however, is discussed not only inrelation to group rights in existing nation-states: many of theselections deal with the role of ethnicity in groups which are notnationalist at all but for which ethnicity is an important factorin the process of migration, extending the focus to transnationalcommunities in a globalized world.Contributors include Benedict Anderson, Etienne Balibar, JamesClifford, Eric Hobsbawm, Michael Keating, Will Kymlicka, TariqModood, John Rex, Anthony D. Smith, Michel Wieviorka, and FrankeWilmer.

Product Description: By conversing with the main bodies of relevant literature from Migration Studies and Memory Studies, this overview highlights how analysing memories can contribute to a better understanding of the complexities of migrant incorporation...read more

Since Samuel P. Huntingdon proposed his influential and troubling ‘clash of civilizations’ thesis, nationalism has only continued to puzzle and frustrate commentators, policy analysts, and political theorists. No consensus exists concerning its identity, genesis, or future. Are we reverting to the petty nationalisms of the nineteenth century or evolving into a globalized, supranational world? Has the nation-state outlived its usefulness and exhausted its progressive and emancipatory role?Opening with powerful statements by Lord Acton and Otto Bauer—the classic liberal and socialist positions—Mapping the Nation presents a wealth of thought on thisissue: the debate between Ernest Gellner and Miroslav Hroch; Gopal Balakrishnan’s critique of Benedict Anderson’s seminal Imagined Communities; Partha Chatterjeeon the limitations of the Enlightenment approach to nationhood; and contributions from Michael Mann, Eric Hobsbawm, Tom Nairn, and Jürgen Habermas.

In Marx at the Margins, Kevin Anderson uncovers a variety of extensive but neglected texts by the well-known political economist which cast what we thought we knew about his work in a startlingly different light. Analyzing a variety of Marx’s writings, including journalistic work written for the New York Tribune, Anderson presents us with a Marx quite at odds with our conventional interpretations. Rather than providing us with an account of Marx as an exclusively class-based thinker, Anderson here offers a portrait of Marx for the twenty-first century: a global theorist whose social critique was sensitive to the varieties of human social and historical development, including not just class, but nationalism, race, and ethnicity, as well.Marx at the Margins ultimately argues that alongside his overarching critique of capital, Marx created a theory of history that was multi-layered and not easily reduced to a single model of development or revolution. Through highly-informed readings on work ranging from Marx’s unpublished 1879–82 notebooks to his passionate writings about the antislavery cause in the United States, this volume delivers a groundbreaking and canon-changing vision of Karl Marx that is sure to provoke lively debate in Marxist scholarship and beyond.