Remaking Identities - God, Nation, and Race in World History

Informationen zum Autor By Benjamin Lieberman Klappentext For centuries conquerors, missionaries, and political movements acting in the name of a single god, nation, or race have sought to remake human identities. Tracing the rise of exclusive forms of identity over the past 1500 years, this innovative book explores both the creation and destruction of exclusive identities. Benjamin Lieberman focuses on two critical phases of world history: the age of holy war and conversion, and the age of nationalism and racism. He convincingly shows that efforts to transplant and expand new identities have paradoxically generated long periods of both stability and explosive violence that remade the human landscape around the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionChapter 1: Building the Realm of IslamChapter 2: Word and Sword in the Making of Christian EuropeChapter 3: Spain and Catholic Empire in the New WorldChapter 4: Islam in IndiaChapter 5: Settler Society and Populist ImperialismChapter 6: Nationalizing States and Traitor Peoples in the Shatterzone of EmpiresChapter 7: The Contradictions of Racial EmpireConclusion

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Lieberman
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2013
• EAN: 9781442213937
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-1393-7
• No. of pages: 318
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, RELIGION / History, HISTORY / World, General & world history, History of Religion, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, General and world history, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies