Throughout the modern period, nations defined themselves through the relationship between nature and machines. Many cast themselves as a triumph of technology over the forces of climate, geography, and environment. Some, however, crafted a powerful alternative identity: they defined themselves not through the triumph of machines over nature, but through technological failures a...(展开全部)

A new nation has appeared within the United States since the Civil War, but it has been only accidentally connected with that catastrophe. The Constitution emerged from the confusion of strife and reconstruction substantially unchanged, but the economic development of the United States in the sixties and seventies gave birth to a society that was, by 1885, already national in i...(展开全部)

[英]T.M.迪瓦恩(T. M. Devine)， 爱尔兰皇家科学院名誉会员、爱丁堡皇家学会会员及英国学术院会员，是英国和爱尔兰唯一位同时在上述三个学会拥有会员身份的历史学家，现为爱丁堡大学历史学讲座教授、苏格兰侨民研究中心主任。迪瓦恩在2001年被授予苏格兰的最高学术荣誉——皇家金质奖章，他的代表作包括《苏格兰的帝国:全球苏格兰侨民的起源》 (Scotland' s Empire: The 0rigins of the Global Diaspora) 和《直到大地尽头:遍布世界的苏格兰侨民》 (To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland' s Global Diaspora) 。

Both Western historians and Chinese nationalists have argued that from early times China had the features of a nation state: a common language, culture, and bureaucracy. This argument is important not only because it affects our understanding of how nations are constructed but also because Chinese nationalism is today a vital ingredient in both the domestic politics of the Peop...(展开全部)

‘The Ministry of Magic felt strongly, however, that to construct an additional wizarding station in the middle of London would stretch even the Muggles’ notorious determination not to notice magic when it was exploding in front of their faces.’ – J.K. Rowling Pottermore Presents is a collection of J.K. Rowling’s writing from the Pottermore archives: short reads originally featu...(展开全部)

‘The Ministry of Magic felt strongly, however, that to construct an additional wizarding station in the middle of London would stretch even the Muggles’ notorious determination not to notice magic when it was exploding in front of their faces.’ – J.K. Rowling Pottermore Presents is a collection of J.K. Rowling’s writing from the Pottermore archives: short reads originally featu...(展开全部)

This innovative, extensively illustrated study examines how classical antiquities and archaeology contributed significantly to the production of the modern Greek nation and its national imagination. It also shows how, in return, national imagination has created and shaped classical antiquities and archaeological practice from the nineteenth century to the present. Yannis Hamila...(展开全部)

In the winter of 1807, while Berlin was occupied by French troops, the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte presented fourteen public lectures that have long been studied as a major statement of modern nationalism. Yet Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation have also been interpreted by many as a vision of a cosmopolitan alternative to nationalism. This new edition of the Addres...(展开全部)