Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe a Comparative Analysis of the Social Composition of Patriotic Groups Among the Smaller European Nat
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
- Publish date: 01/01/2000
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This classic work on nationalism, originally published thirty years ago and now reissued with a new preface by the author, provides excellent historical and political background to the profusion of recent nationalist movements in Eastern Europe. Miroslav Hroch develops and demonstrates empirically the concept of a three-stage process of nationalist mobilization: (1) heightened cultural awareness of national distinctiveness among intellectuals and literati, (2) a concept of nationalism as a political program, and (3) mass mobilization on behalf of this doctrine. Hroch shows how the character of a state's nationalism is shaped by the timing of each of these phases in relation to other social transformations, especially economic changes.
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