The Formation of Croatian National Identity: A Centuries-old DreamManchester University Press, 2003 - Broj stranica: 211 This book assesses the formation of Croatian national identity in the 1990s. It develops a novel framework, calling into question both primordial and modernist approaches to nationalism and national identity, before applying that framework to Croatia. In doing so, the book provides a new way of thinking about how national identity is formed and why it is so important. An explanation is given of how Croatian national identity was formed in the abstract, via a historical narrative that traces centuries of yearning for a national state. The book shows how the government, opposition parties, dissident intellectuals and diaspora groups offered alternative accounts of this narrative in order to legitimise contemporary political programmes based on different versions of national identity. It then looks at how these debates were manifested in social activities as diverse as football, religion, economics and language. This book attempts to make an important contribution to both the way we study nationalism and national identity, and our understanding of post-Yugoslav politics and society. |
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Reimagining the nation | 20 |
Contemporary accounts of Croatian national identity | 65 |
economy football and Istria | 104 |
language education | 137 |
competing claims to national identity | 171 |
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The Formation of Croatian National Identity: A Centuries-old Dream Alex J. Bellamy Pregled nije dostupan |
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