Suchergebnisse

Power and weakness of civic nationalism in Switzerland, 1848-2014 / Regula Argast -- Squaring the South Slavic circle: ethnicity, nationhood, and citizenship in Yugoslavia / Andrew Wachtel and Igor Štiks-- Civic constitutional nationalism in Egypt: revisiting Egypt's liberal experiment, 1907-1952 / Israel Gershoni -- Building the Swahili nation: civic nationalism in Tanzania / Gregory H. Maddox -- Ethno-nationalism travels incognito in Singapore / Michael D. Barr -- National ties entwined: civic and ethnic elements in New Zealand identity / David Pearson -- Unusual, often implicit, yet surprisingly effective: civic nationalism in Brazil / Roderick J. Barman -- Homogenizing and demarcating America: civic nationalism in the United States, 1774-1861 / Jasper M. Trautsch.

The Genesis of America investigates the ways in which US foreign policy contributed to the formation of an American national consciousness. Interpreting American nationalism as a process of external demarcation, Jasper M. Trautsch argues that, for a sense of national self to emerge, the US needed to be disentangled from its most important European reference points: Great Britain and France. As he shows, foreign-policy makers could therefore promote American nationalism by provoking foreign crises and wars with these countries, hereby creating external threats that would bind the fragile union together. By reconstructing how foreign policy was thus used as a nation-building instrument, Trautsch provides an answer to the puzzling question of how Americans - lacking a shared history and culture of their own and justifying their claim for independent nationhood by appeals to universal rights - could develop a sense of particularity after the conclusion of the Revolutionary War