Selling and consuming the nation: Understanding consumer nationalism

Elites , Nationalism and Nation - States

Nationalism creates and recreates a sense of distinctive identity and autonomy based on the Enlightenment idea of human freedom that enables people to survive in a modern world in which unpredictable change has become the norm. While, in the medieval world, the feudal states invoked religion and cultural resources to make people servile, the modern state invokes identity in a language of servin...

Nation-Building, Nationalism, and Wars∗

This paper explores how the increase in army size observed in early modern times changed the way states conducted wars. Starting in the late 18th century, states switched from mercenaries to a mass army by conscription. We model the incentives of soldiers to exert effort in war and show that as army size increases paying mercenaries is no longer optimal. In order for the population to accept fi...

Unearthing the nation: modern geology and nationalism in Republican China.

The Two Epochs of Nation-Development: Is Black Nationalism a Form of Classical Nationalism?

The dramatic resurgence of Negro nationalism, its emergence as a viable, authentic trend is one of the most significant developments of the present day Negro freedom scene. With the appearance of the Black Muslims, its most articulate and best organized manifestation, Negro Nationalism, for the first time since the Garvey movement, has attained the significance of a major mass trend. It is havi...

Reagan tells nation he ' ' regrets ' ' selling arms to Iranians

A county grand jury will decide today whether to indict a Notre Dame student in con­ nection with the Dec. 6 accident that killed junior Michael Cogswell. The 21-year-old student has been subpoened to testify before the grand jury in St. Joseph County Superior Court, the county prosecutor’s office said. Notre Dame senior Douglas Meier said he also was sub­ poened to testify at the hearing, whic...