Reimagining the Nation-State
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Reimagining the Nation-State

The Contested Terrains of Nation-Building

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Reimagining the Nation-State

The Contested Terrains of Nation-Building

About this book

This book assesses competing modes of nation-building and nationalism through a critical reappraisal of the works of key theorists such as Benedict Anderson and Eric Hobsbawm. Exploring the processes of nation building from a variety of ethnic and social class contexts, it focuses on the contested terrain within which nationalist ideologies are often rooted. Mac Laughlin offers a theoretical and empirical analysis of nation building, taking as a case study the historical connections between Ireland and Great Britain in the clash between 'big nation' historic British nationalism on the one hand, and minority Irish nationalism on the other. Locating the origins of the historic nation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Mac Laughlin emphasises the difficulties, and specificity, of minority nationalism in the nineteenth century. In so doing he calls for a place-centred approach which recognises the symbolic and socio-economic significance of territory to the different scales of nation-building. Exploring the evolution of Irish Nationalism, Reimaging the Nation State also shows how minority nations can challenge the hegemony of dominant states and threaten the territorial integrity of historic nations.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. The Naturalisation of Nation-building in the Nineteenth Century: The Anomalies of Minority Nations
  5. 2. English Nation-building and Seventeenth-century Ireland: The 'Fabulous Geographies' of Nation-building
  6. 3. Political Arithmetic' and the Early Origins of Ethnic Minorities
  7. 4. Theorising the Nation: 'Peoplehood' and Nationhood as 'Historical Happenings'
  8. 5. Nationalising People, Places and Historical Records in Nineteenth-century Ireland
  9. 6. Social and Ethnic Collectivities in Nation-building Ireland
  10. 7. Pressing Home the Nation: Print Capitalism and 'Imagined Communities' in the Nineteenth Century
  11. 8. Pamphlet Wars and Provincial Newspapers in Protestant Ulster
  12. 9. The Surveillance State and the Imagined Community
  13. 10. Local Politics and Nation-building: The Grassroots of Nationalist Hegemony
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index