Myths of Nations, The
Myths of Nations, The Modern-day Europeans by the millions proudly trace back their national identities to the Celts, Franks, Gauls, Goths, Huns, or Serbs--or some combination of the various peoples…
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Myths of Nations, The
Modern-day Europeans by the millions proudly trace back their national identities to the Celts, Franks, Gauls, Goths, Huns, or Serbs--or some combination of the various peoples who inhabited, traversed, or pillaged their continent more than a thousand years ago. The idea that national character is fixed for all time in a simpler, distant past is groundless, he argues in this unflinching reconsideration of European nationhood. According to Patrick Geary, this is historical nonsense.
Through rigorous analysis set in lucid prose, he contrasts the myths with the actual history of Europe's Few of the peoples that many Europeans honor as sharing their sense of ''nation'' had comparably homogeneous identities; even the Huns, he points out, were firmly united only under Attila's ten-year reign.Geary dismantles the nationalist myths about how the nations of Europe were born.
Destiny of the Nations
Judgement of the Nations
The Wealth of Nations
The Wealth of Nations
Myths of the Norsemen
Myths of the Asanas
Myths of the Family
Myths of the World
The Wealth of Virtual Nations
Origins of the Slavic Nations
Seven Myths of the Crusades
The Citadel of Forgotten Myths