...Economic modernity is so closely associated with nationhood that it is impossible to imagine a modern state without an equally modern economy. Even so, most people would have difficulty defining a modern economy and its connection to nationhood. This book explores this connection by examining...

... of Education and Culture settler nationhood material-cultural artifacts Jewish communities artifacts settler-colonial space colonial practice Speaking before the Tel Aviv branch of the Jewish Palestine Exploration Society in 1934, Shmu᾽el Yeivin spoke of the past decade as the time in which a real basis...

... (colonial-)national-histories, between living and dead monuments are made apparent. It is important both to consider signs of struggle that disquiet the impression of a (more) singular and coherent project of settler nationhood and, at the same time, to trace historical legacies that endure in myriad ways...

... and social and political fields, which both enabled and were transformed by archaeology's work. In so doing, the book has traced processes and practices out of which particular configurations of settler nationhood and its territorial locales were continuously substantiated and repeatedly extended. unity...

...This chapter discusses the “inertia” in the remembrance of Abraham Lincoln. Heartfelt admiration of Lincoln is now at a low point, but there is a floor below which it cannot fall, a limit inherent in the character of nationhood itself. The chapter suggests that Lincoln's memory accumulates a self...

...When Nigeria hosted the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in 1977, it celebrated a global vision of black nationhood and citizenship animated by the exuberance of its recent oil boom. This book tells the full story of this cultural extravaganza, from Nigeria's...

...This chapter provides an overview of the integration of Naples into the Spanish imperial system. It also highlights the ways in which Vesuvius represented nationhood and resistance to tyranny. eruption of 1631 God’s punishment by Vesuvian eruptions Borelli’s reJection of Manso Giovanni Battista...

... to come. This scholarly debate is perhaps best understood as an ongoing practice of settler nationhood, one that repeatedly reenacted and reinstantiated the “national collective” in empirical form, facts of positive science that emerged as an independent evidentiary basis upon which the work...

...This book provides an image of a Nationalist government deeply divided, debunking the prevalent interpretation that it was a monolithic political entity, firmly under the leadership of Jiang Jieshi and representing a unified view of nationhood. It concentrates on the intellectual foundation...

...This chapter explores the productivist policies of the GMD and how they affected its rural policies. Rural recovery was crucial for Wang Jingwei's and Chen Gongbo's vision of modern nationhood with its very specific objectives (autarky and national unity). They recognized the significance...

...In the decades after the American Revolution, inhabitants of the United States began to shape a new national identity. Telling the story of this messy yet formative process, this book argues that ordinary men and women gave meaning to American nationhood and national belonging by first learning...