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Informationen zum Autor Aviel Roshwald is Professor of History at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He is the author of The Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). His previous publications include Estranged Bedfellows: Britain and France in the Middle East during the Second World War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990) and Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires: Central Europe, Russia and the Middle East, 1914-1923 (London: Routledge, 2001). He is co-editor, with Richard Stites, of European Culture during the Great War: The Arts, Entertainment, and Propaganda, 1914-1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999). Klappentext A major new study of the ancient roots of nationalism and its enduring power in the modern world. Zusammenfassung Aviel Roshwald challenges prevailing assumptions about the exclusively modern and transitory nature of nationalism in a study that ranges from ancient Jews and Greeks to the modern Arab-Israeli! Northern Irish! and Yugoslav conflicts! and from the politics of Jerusalem's Temple Mount to the contested memory of the Alamo in Texas. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Nationalism in antiquity; 2. The nation in history and the curved arrow of time; 3. Violation and volition; 4. Chosenness and mission; 5. Kindred blood, mingled blood - ethnic and civic frameworks of national identity; Conclusion; Bibliography.
