In this Book
- Nationalism in the New World
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: University of Georgia Press
The contributors to this volume "Americanize" the conversation on nationalism. They ask how the countries of the Americas fit into the larger world of nations and in what ways they present distinctive forms of nationhood. Such questions are particularly important because, as the editors write, "the American nations that came into being in the wake of revolutions that shook the Atlantic world beginning in 1776 provided models of what the modern world might become."
American nations were among the first nation-states to emerge on the world stage. As former colonies with multiethnic populations, American nations could not logically rest their claim to nationhood on ancient bonds of blood and history. Out of a world of empires and colonies the independent states of the Americas forged new nations based on a varied mix of modern civic ideals instead of primordial myths, on ethnic and religious diversity instead of common descent, and on future hopes rather than ancient roots.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- American Nations and European Colonies in 1830
- pp. xii-xiii
- Nationalism Matters
- pp. 16-40
- Interpreting New World Nationalism
- pp. 41-60
- Nationalism in Canada
- pp. 99-116
- Imagining la raza argentina
- pp. 143-161
- The regeneración de la raza in Colombia
- pp. 162-183
- Caudillo Nationalism in Bolivia
- pp. 230-247
- Contributors
- pp. 305-307