The Myth of Nations  -  Patrick J. Geary

The Medieval Origins of Europe

KORTE INHOUD

Modern-day Europeans by the millions proudly trace back their national identities to the Celts, Franks, Gauls, Goths, Huns, or Serbs--or some combination of the various peoples who inhabited, traversed, or pillaged their continent more than a thousand years ago. According to Patrick Geary, this is historical nonsense. The idea that national character is fixed for all time in a simpler, distant past is groundless, he argues in this unflinching reconsideration of European nationhood. Few of the peoples that m...
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2003 Uitgever: Princeton University Press 199 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0691114811 ISBN-13: 9780691114811