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The creation of national identities : Europe, 18th-20th centuries / by Anne-Marie Thiesse ; [translated by Brian McNeil].

Author
Thiesse, Anne-Marie
Uniform Title
Création des identités nationales. English
Published
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
Physical Description
ix, 234 pages ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
McNeil, Brian

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"There is nothing more international than the formation of national identities. From the barbarian epics to the ethnographic museums, from the national languages to emblematic landscapes or typical costumes, this book retraces the cultural fabrication of the European nations. National identities are not facts of nature, but constructions. The list of the basic elements of a national identity is well known today: ancestral founders, a history, heroes, language, monuments, landscapes, and folklore. The compilation of this list was the great work carried out together in Europe during the last two centuries. Patriotic militancy and the transnational exchanges of ideas and know-how created identities that are very specific, but that are similar precisely in their difference"--
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ISBN
9789004366701 (hardback)
9004366709
Note
This book was originally published in French, Anne-MarieThiesse, La création des identités nationales Europe XVIIIe -XXe siècle, ©Editions du Seuil, 1999 et 2001.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-229) and index.
Endowment Note
Barbara S. Klein Libraries Collection Endowment in Art History and International Affairs
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