Description
Product ID: | 9780719038006 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Nationalism and the State |
Authors: | Author: John Breuilly |
Page Count: | 492 |
Subjects: | General and world history, General & world history, Nationalism, Nationalism |
Description: | Combining historical perspective and theoretical analysis, this book provides an overview of modern nationalism. The text explores the recent developments in eastern and central Europe that have given the subject of nationalism a new significance. Penny politics offers a new way to read early Victorian popular fiction such as Jack Sheppard, Sweeney Todd, and The Mysteries of London. It locates forms of radical discourse in the popular literature that emerged simultaneously with Brittan''s longest and most significant people''s movement. It listens for echoes of Chartist fiction in popular fiction. The book rethinks the relationship between the popular and political, understanding that radical politics had popular appeal and that the lines separating a genuine radicalism from commercial success are complicated and never absolute. With archival work into Newgate calendars and Chartist periodicals, as well as media history and culture, it brings together histories of the popular and political so as to rewrite the radical canon. |
Imprint Name: | Manchester University Press |
Publisher Name: | Manchester University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 1993-11-25 |