Confronting the Nation
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European history
European nationalism
fascism
French Revolution
George L. Mosse
German Jews
German National Socialism
Gershom Sholem
history of homosexuality
intellectual history
Israel
Italian Futurism
Jacob Talmon
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jewish nationalism
Jewish studies
Jewishness
liberal nationalism
mass politics
Max Nordau
modern history
modern masculinity
modernity
Mosse
national anthems
nationhood
patriotism
political culture
political liturgy
political style
political theory
postwar theory
Sittlichkeit
social respectability
the modern state
Western Europe
Western nationalism
Zionism
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- ISBN 9780299346447
- Weight: 140g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jan 2024
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Confronting the Nation brings together twelve of celebrated historian George L. Mosse’s most important essays to explore competing forms of European nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Mosse coins the term “civic religion” to describe how nationalism, especially in Germany and France, simultaneously inspired and disciplined the populace through the use of rituals and symbols. The definition of citizenship shaped by this nationalism, however, frequently excluded Jews, who were stereotyped as outsiders who sought to undermine the national community. With keen attention to liberal forms of nationalism, Mosse examines the clash of aspirational visions of an inclusive nation against cultural registers of nativist political ideologies.
Mosse considers a broad range of topics, from Nazi book burnings to Americans’ search for unifying national symbols during the Great Depression, exploring how the development of particular modes of art, architecture, and mass movements served nationalist agendas by dictating who was included in the image of the nation. These essays retain their significance today in their examination of the cultural and social implications of contemporary nationalism. A new critical introduction by Shulamit Volkov, professor emerita of history at Tel Aviv University, situates Mosse’s analysis within its historiographical context.
Mosse considers a broad range of topics, from Nazi book burnings to Americans’ search for unifying national symbols during the Great Depression, exploring how the development of particular modes of art, architecture, and mass movements served nationalist agendas by dictating who was included in the image of the nation. These essays retain their significance today in their examination of the cultural and social implications of contemporary nationalism. A new critical introduction by Shulamit Volkov, professor emerita of history at Tel Aviv University, situates Mosse’s analysis within its historiographical context.
George L. Mosse (1918–99) was a legendary scholar, teacher, and mentor. A refugee from Nazi Germany, in 1955 he joined the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he was both influential and popular. Mosse was an early leader in the study of modern European cultural and intellectual history, the study of fascism, and the history of sexuality and masculinity. Over his career he authored more than two dozen books.
