Self and NationSAGE, 2000 M12 18 - 256 pages A `RARE BOOK′ FROM LOCAL AUTHORS `Here is a rare book, a truly helpful piece of work on the psychology of nationalism. Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins, of St Andrews and Dundee Universities, focus much of their study of recent Scottish experience, drawing on inter-views with political activists. The cast light on why our `Unionists′ and nationalists feel so sure their side represents our national identity and the other lot doesn′t. For once it is a compliment to say a book raises more questions than it answers. Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins open up large questions closer inspection′ - Glasgow Herald `In this impressive book Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins draw from a wealth of research to address issues of nationality, national identity and nationalism that lie at the heart of core topics in social psychology and its cognate disciplines. They have produced a powerful and scholarly text that interweaves an abundance of rich empirical data with a broad-reaching and timely theoretical statement. Moreover, the content is not confined to matters of national identity but also extends to treatments of stereotyping, prejudice, intergroup conflict, leadership, collective action, and the self .... For all these reasons, the book should serve essential and compelling reading for a very broad audience′ - S Alexander Haslam, Australian National University `Stephen Reicher and Nick Hopkins write with elegance and clarity, drawing the reader into their argument, without losing any of its complexity and nuance. This book deserves to make a major impact in studies of nationalism. It ought to become a classic.... I′m quite bowled over - it′s really brilliant′ - David McCrone, Edinburgh University |
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... English kings, Scotland finally won its independence after the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. Independence lasted until 1707 when union was declared between the two countries and the Edinburgh parliament was dissolved, although Scotland ...
... English rather than Ashanti. None of this is to deny that a nation needs language. Indeed, as will emerge later, we see language as absolutely central. However, it is to deny that nations need their own language or even a single common ...
... English used to date Oxford from Alfred the Great, Parliament from the Romans and native Christianity from Joseph of Arimathea. Olof Rudbeck's Atlantica established ancient Sweden as the fount of modern culture; Germans and then the English ...
... English Quaker industrialist in order to facilitate the assimilation of Scots into the factory system and through an imperial review in order to assimilate Scots into the armies of empire. Cannadine (1983) argues that the supposedly ...
... English revolution, of the pre-Chartist movement, of the women's suffrage movement from the 1790s to today' (p. 56). For Dimitrov, as for so many others that we have encountered in this chapter, the flexibility with which the category ...
Contents
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3 Nation and Mobilization | 53 |
4 National Identity and International Relations | 77 |
5 In Quest of National Character | 100 |
6 Lessons in National History | 131 |
7 Representing the National Community | 152 |
8 Changing Categories and Changing Contexts | 181 |
9 Nationalist Psychology and the Psychology of Nationhood | 204 |
References | 223 |
Author Index | 235 |
Subject Index | 239 |