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Geary, Patrick J
by Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe
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Princeton. 2001. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0691090548. 261 pages. hardcover. . keywords: History Europe. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 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. According to Patrick Geary, this is historical nonsense. 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. 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. Through rigorous analysis set in lucid prose, he contrasts the myths with the actual history of Europe's transformation between the fourth and ninth centuries - the period of grand migrations that nationalists hold dear. The nationalist sentiments today increasingly taken for granted in Europe emerged, he argues, only in the nineteenth century. Ironically, this phenomenon was kept alive not just by responsive populations - but by complicit scholars. Ultimately, Geary concludes, the actual formation of European peoples must be seen as an extended process that began in antiquity and continues in the present. The resulting image is a challenge to those who anchor contemporary antagonisms in ancient myths - to those who claim that immigration and tolerance toward minorities despoil nationhood. As Geary shows, such ideologues - whether Le Pens who champion the French people born with the baptism of Clovis in 496 or Milosevics who cite early Serbian history to claim rebellious regions - know their myths but not their history. inventory #34927 ISBN: 0691090548.
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- Title
- Geary, Patrick J
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- Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe
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- Used
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0691090548
- ISBN 13
- 9780691090542
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- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton, Nj
- This edition first published
- January 1, 2001
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