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Forging the Imperial Nation: Imperialism, Nationalism, and Ethnic Boundaries in China's Longue Duree
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The article was published on 2011-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 18 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nationalism & Patrimonialism.read more
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Ben Kiernan, “Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur”
Marshall Poe,Ben Kiernan +1 more
TL;DR: Kiernan as mentioned in this paper examines outbreaks of mass violence from the classical era to the present, focusing on worldwide colonial exterminations and twentieth-century case studies including the Armenian genocide, the Nazi Holocaust, Stalin's mass murders, and the Cambodian and Rwandan genocides.
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Ancient China and its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History . By Nicola Di Cosmo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. ix, 369 pp. $70.00 (cloth).
Kenneth M. Swope,Nicola Di Cosmo +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the Steppe Highway and the rise of pastoral nomadism as a Eurasian phenomenon are discussed. But the authors focus on the early Chinese perceptions of northern peoples.
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A Patterned past: Form and Thought in Early Chinese Historiography
TL;DR: Schaberg as mentioned in this paper argues that the coherent view of early China found in these texts is an effect of their origins and the habits of reading they impose, and they represent the efforts of a group of officials and ministers to argue for a moralising interpretation of the events of early Chinese history and for their own value as skilled interpreters of events and advisers to the rulers of the day.
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China and Its National Minorities: Autonomy or Assimilation?
TL;DR: In this article, a study of past and present policies of the People's Republic of China towards its numerous and varied minority groups, a subject about which there is scant information in the West, is presented.
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
TL;DR: In this paper, Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality and explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialisation of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of vernacular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time.
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Economy and society : an outline of interpretive sociology
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the economy and the Arena of Normative and De Facto Powers in the context of social norms and economic action in the social sciences, and propose several categories of economic action.
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Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War
James D. Fearon,David D. Laitin +1 more
TL;DR: This article showed that the current prevalence of internal war is mainly the result of a steady accumulation of protracted conflicts since the 1950s and 1960s rather than a sudden change associated with a new, post-Cold War international system.