National Past, Historiography, and Historians
Section outline
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Key topics:
Selected concepts of nation-building – primordialism, constructivism, imagined community, invented tradition
Readings:
Eric Hobsbawm, Inventing Traditions. In: Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger. The Invention of Traditions, Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. 1-15.
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities. Verso, 2006, p. 67-82.