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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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Back to the future: The politics of culture at the Shanghai Expo

TL;DR: This article examined representations at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, a largely state and corporate-funded mega-event, to consider contemporary China's particular narrative of the nation as it emerges as a global power in the 21st century.
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Lions and roses: An interpretive history of Israeli-Iranian relations

TL;DR: Cohen and Mesbahi as discussed by the authors explored the religious and cultural foundations within the "master commemorative narratives" that frame Israeli and Iranian political discourse, and used them to understand the tensions between religion, nationalism and modernity in their own societies.
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Equity for sale: ethical consumption in a school-choice regime

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that ethical consumption has become a key model for both schools as providers and parents as consumers to engage with issues of equity, and identify how the phenomenon of ethical consumption is reflected in the promotional strategies of elite private schools, and how this framing of equity occludes a clear vision of inequalities in the distribution of resources and access across different educational sites.
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The birth of modern Circassian nationalism

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the problems of the national movement of the Circassians, a small nation in the Caucasus, most of whose population is dispersed all over the world.
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Ethnography of schooling, religion and ethnonationalism in the Kachin State, Myanmar : dreams and dilemmas of change

Mart Viirand
TL;DR: In this article, the emergence of several private schools in the Kachin State of northern Myanmar has been studied through the lens of formal schooling, organized religion, and ethno-nationalism.