Modern Armenia: People, Nation, State 1351504908, 9781351504904

Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason 9780231548595

In Secular Translations, anthropologist Talal Asad reflects on his lifelong engagement with secularism and its contradic

134 18 1002KB Read more

People, Nation and State: The Meaning of Ethnicity and Nationalism 9780755620869, 9781860644016

While conflicts of class, ideology and political systems have receded in the post-Cold War world, divisions based on gro

168 81 1011KB Read more

The Teleology of the Modern Nation-State: Japan and China 9781512821611

Although we may be aware that China and Japan were not nation-states until relatively recently, we still speak and write

104 27 13MB Read more

Nation-Building in Modern Turkey: The ‘People’s Houses’, The State and the Citizen 9780755608676, 9781780768762

From 1924 to 1946 the Republic of Turkey was in effect ruled as an authoritarian single-party regime. During these years

170 15 2MB Read more

Tunisia's Modern Woman: Nation-Building and State Feminism in the Global 1960s 9781108845045, 9781108961264

Claims over women's liberation vocalized by Tunisia's first president, Habib Bourguiba began with legal reform

541 46 5MB Read more

A Nation of Veterans: War, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Modern America 9781512823158

A Nation of Veterans examines how the United States created the world’s most generous system of veterans’ benefits and s

122 107 6MB Read more

Fate of the Nation State 9780773571778

Are Nation-states obsolete? Are multination states viable? Can we really create powerful supranational institutions? The

110 23 20MB Read more

China from Empire to Nation-State 9780674736306

This translation of the introduction to Wang Hui’s Rise of Modern Chinese Thought (2004) makes part of his four-volume m

136 76 980KB Read more

The Nation-State in Question 9780691221496

Has globalization forever undermined the state as the mighty guarantor of public welfare and security? In the 1990s, the

104 17 25MB Read more

Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan 9781317667148, 2013050047, 9780415381383, 9781315768670

151 84 920KB Read more