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Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. By E. J. Hobsbawm. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 191p. 39.50.

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This article is published in American Political Science Review.The article was published on 1991-09-01. It has received 2906 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nationalism.

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Pluralizing Meanings: The Monitorial System of Education in Latin America in the Early Nineteenth Century 1

TL;DR: In this article, the adoption of the Lancasterian Monitorial System of Education in the State of Minas Gerais (Brazil) during the nineteenth century is analyzed and discussed.
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Nationalism in America: The case of the Populist movement

TL;DR: This article used data from the Southern Populist movement of the late nineteenth century to provide both relational and cultural analyses of the use of the term “American.“ Although its use was primarily “civic,“ it had important but complex racial implications.
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Changing China: Three Decades of Social Transformation

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how various dimensions of social change have been engendered by the three decades of Chinese economic reform and how these various facets are impacting on the coming direction and trajectory of the country's socioeconomic and political transformation, how the interplay of State policy and societal response within the context of the exigencies engendered with the continued odyssey of development, modernization and reform is shaping the future of the civil society, and how from both the theoretical and empirical perspectives the complex polity-economy-society nexus involved in the transformation of modern China are
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Stage costume and the representation of history in Britain, 1776-1834

Anne Musset
TL;DR: The authors explored the relationship between stage costumes and British historical culture in the period 1776-1834 and argued that the representation of historical stage costumes in the visual arts reflected new ways of conceiving and depicting history, in which interest in the everyday life of past periods and a focus on the material and the visual were fundamental.
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The Eastern Question and the fallacy of modernity on the premodern origins of the modern inter-state order in southeastern Europe

TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that instead of understanding the emergence of the post-Ottoman state system as a teleological and predetermined process of Westernization, instead, the key for understanding the post Ottoman state system lies in deciphering the dialectic between a domestic social struggle among pre-capitalist classes and an intensifying pan-European geopolitical dynamic.