This paper has two main goals. First, it illuminates continuities between the ideas of “true Romanian-ness” as held by both the Romanian cultural elite and the Romanian political regimes in the interwar and communist periods. A manufactured definition of a “true” Romanian—as a Romanian Orthodox Christian, natively Romanian-speaking, and ethnically Romanian—formed the core of Romanian nationalis...

Abstract The political salience of religious issues and identities has been rising in Thailand, this is increasingly reflected electoral politics. Thai parties seek to position themselves relation struggles over the location ideological centre gravity, which pitted defenders religio-political status quo—a monarchy-centred civil-religious nationalism—against Buddhist nationalists, on one hand, p...

Wallace Ruddell Aykroyd (1899–1979) had an English father, whose business was in Ireland, and an Irish mother. He attended high school in England as a boarder and then joined the Royal Air Force. After the end of World War I he returned to Ireland for medical studies at Trinity College, Dublin (1,2). In 1924 he graduated as Bachelor of Medicine and also received the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for ...

This study, based on analysis of survey data collected in 2011 in Taiwan and Hong Kong, shows that cultural identification explains the choice of country and national identities and that Chinese nationalism emerges as an important factor connecting the minds of people in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

Existing scholarship has tended to exclude Chile from studies of indigenismo in Latin America, on the basis that it has not experienced the same history of ethnic conflict as other countries in the region. My doctoral thesis challenges this consensus, highlighting various discursive manifestations of such a conflict in twentieth-century Chile, and investigating the successive attempts of intell...

The development of occupational therapy was heavily influenced by an early evolved relationship between orthopedists and reconstruction aides during the first World War. Orhopedists were largely responsible for both the presence of occupational therapy in the war and the eventual acceptance (by army personnel) of women fulfilling this military function. As a result of gender issues of that time...

Waves of War is destined to be influential— and controversial. This book examines nationalism, ethnic strife, and war. These topics are not only prominent in the headlines but also of interest to comparative historical sociology, political sociology, and macrosociology more generally. While the topics are familiar, this is a challenging book. Andreas Wimmer presents a novel theory, creates new ...

Sport development had been influenced by military, economic, political and social chaos. The period 1912 to 1927 was a tumultuous time for China, fragmented and ruled as it was by an assortment of regional military dictators or warlords. The first Chinese Republic was established in 1912 and soon collapsed, in 1916, when the first president Yuan Shih-kai died. National government ceased to exis...

Fascism belongs to the "family" of right-wing authoritarian and radical nationalist movements and regimes. Fascist movements regard the state as an organic whole and omnipotent principle transcending class interests, economic tensions, and ethnic conflicts. Fascism and authoritarianism rejected and repressed Marxist socialism, liberalism, ethnic minorities, and laissez-faire capitalism. One may...