Nations before the Nation-State

Nations before the Nation-State

Between City-State and Empire from Antiquity to the Present

Schoen, Anna Marisa

Cambridge University Press

11/2024

232

Mole

9781009441254

15 a 20 dias

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Part I. Introduction: A Plan for Rethinking the Nation: 1. The nation-state paradigm; 2. A project of conceptual recovery; 3. Political imagination; 4. Liberal multiculturalism and constitutional patriotism; 5. Selection of sources and overview of the book; 6. Some preliminary conclusions; Part II. What Is a Nation? A Brief Historiography of Theories of the Nation: 1. Romantic beginnings; 2. Classical modernism and the state; 3. The modernist bogeyman; 4. Ethno-symbolism and its critics; 5. Getting our history less wrong; Part III. A Tale of Two Fatherlands: Ancient Conceptions of Nationhood: 1. Ancient sources of Hellenicity; 2. Greek patriotism; 3. The bonds of humanity; 4. Roman citizenship and legal pluralism; 5. Nations in the vulgate; 6. Religion, Law, and Peoplehood in Biblical Judaea; Part IV. Post-Roman Transitions: National Identity in the Wake of the Empire: 1. Cassiodorus' imperial propaganda; 2. Ethnonyms and etymologies; 3. Isidore's appropriation of empire; 4. Historiography as political theory; Part V. Medieval Imperialism: National Diversity and Universal Order: 1. World government and its alternatives; 2. Dante imagines the nation; 3. Humanity's intellectual unity; 4. Difference as punishment, difference as pleasure; 5. Consent as the foundation of empire; Part VI. Nationality and the Medieval 'State' in France: 1. Medieval international relations; 2. Dubois' multinational vision for the holy land; 3. A pre-national defense of political particularism; 4. Participatory citizenship in the footsteps of marsiglio of Padua; 5. Love for king and country; Part VII. The Nation at a Crossroads: 1. Absolute and limited government in the thought of John Fortescue; 2. Royal absolutism and the pursuit of uniformity; 3. Nationalizing the state, politicizing the nation; 4. One king, one law, one nation; 5. The myth of antiquity; 6. English exceptionalism revisited; Part VIII. Conclusions: Rekindling Ancient and Medieval Concepts: 1. Lessons from imperialism; 2. The opening and closure of political life; 3. We are bundles of hyphens; 4. New quests for solidarity; Bibliography.