Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe

Книга "Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe". "...insightful and informative....the essays in this volume contribute to a better understanding of nationalism and nation-building in multicultural East Central Europe." · German Studies ReviewThe hundred years between the revolutions of 1848 and the population transfers of the mid-twentieth century saw the nationalization of culturally complex societies in East Central Europe. This fact has variously been explained in terms of modernization, state building and nation-building theories, each of which treats the process of nationalization as something inexorable, a necessary component of modernity. Although more recently social scientists gesture to the contingencies that may shape these larger developments, this structural approach makes scholars far less attentive to the "hard work" (ideological, political, social) undertaken by individuals and groups at every level of society who tried themselves to build "national" soc...