Nacionalismo y política lingüística

el caso de Cataluña

Cultura y nacionalismo

José Garnelo y la Academia en 1894

Indice: Introducción. El contexto cultural de una empresa artística. Los avatares de un proyecto. Los personajes de la cultura nacional.

Nations and nationalism

Ernest Gellner's "Nations and Nationalism" (1983) provides one of the most powerful and original interpretations of modern nationalism. Drawing upon a range of disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, sociology, politics and history, Gellner argues that nationalism is an inescapable consequence of modernity. For this new ...

Identidades proscritas

el no nacionalismo en las sociedades nacionales

Identidades proscritas analiza el no nacionalismo, es decir, las tradiciones alternativas al nacionalismo en sociedades decididamente nacionalistas. Plantea, pues, una tesis sugestiva y polémica: que en las sociedades nacionalistas han existido siempre sentimientos de identidad no nacionalistas tan fuertes como el nacionalismo, y a veces ...

Negotiating nationalism

nation-building, federalism, and secession in the multinational State

There are at least three times as many nations as states in the world today. This book addresses some of the special challenges that arise when two or more national communities share the same (multinational) state. As a work in normative political philosophy, its principal ...

Nationalism and the mind

essays on modern culture

Professor Liah Greenfeld is one of the world's leading academics in the study of nationalism. Author of the influential books, "Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity" and "The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth", Greenfeld's ideas are both challenging and inspiring. In this ...

Imagined communities

reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

Examines the creation and function of the "imagined communities" of nationality and the way these communities were in part created by the growth of the nation-state, the interaction between capitalism and printing and the birth of vernacular languages in early modern Europe. What makes people ...

The endurance of nationalism

ancient roots and modern dilemmas

Aviel Roshwald directly challenges prevalent scholarly orthodoxies about the exclusively modern character of nationalism. He argues that nationalism's enduring power to shape the world we live in arises directly out of its position at the heart of inescapable social and political paradoxes that are ...

Comparative federalism

the European Union and the United States in comparative perspective

The Convention on the Future of Europe served to galvanize debate about the nature and future developmental trajectory of the European Union. More specifically, it engendered discussion over the degree to which the process resembled that which had occurred in Philadelphia some two hundred years ...

Sistemas federales comparados

La traducción al castellano de esta segunda edición actualizada dela obra de Ronald Watts, ofrece un claro análisis del diseño y funcionamiento de una serie de federaciones elegidas por su relevancia desde la perspectiva canadiense. El punto de partida es la constatación de la experiencia ...

Nationalism and ethnosymbolism

history, culture and ethnicity in the formation of nations

Ethnosymbolism offers a distinct and innovative approach to the study of nations and nationalism. It focuses on the role of ethnic myths, historical memories, symbols and traditions in the creation and maintenance of the collective identity of modern nations. This book explores the different aspects ...

Parallel paths

the development of nationalism in Ireland and Quebec

In an innovative survey Garth Stevenson contrasts Irish and Quebec nationalism, from British conquest to the present-day struggles for unity in Ireland and sovereignty in Quebec. Predominantly Catholic societies subjected to British conquest and partial colonization, Ireland and Quebec rebelled unsuccessfully and entered the modern ...

Historia de las lenguas y los nacionalismos

Este libro -escrito con la combinación de una erudición fuera de lo común y un estilo ameno no exento de ironía- podría haberse titulado Todo lo que siempre quiso saber sobre las lenguas pero temía preguntar. En sus páginas, Xabier Zabaltza denuncia la manipulación de ...

Comparative federalism

theory and practice

A new examination of contemporary federalism and federation, which delivers a detailed theoretical study underpinned by fresh case studies. It is grounded in a clear distinction between 'federations', particular kinds of states, and 'federalism', the thinking that drives and promotes them. It also details the ...

Federalismo e regionalismo

teoria e prassi nell'attuale fase storica. Atti del seminario tenutosi a Siena, 27 maggio 2005

El Plan Ibarretxe

los protagonistas: Euskal Herria 1955-2005

Euskadi

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Nacionalismo, cultura y tradición

Global matrix

nationalism, globalism and State-Terrorism

Storia e percorsi del federalismo

l'eredità di Carlos Cattaneo