HIST 5091 - Nation-State, National Identity, Collective Memory

A huge scholarly literature now exists on the emergence in the period 1789-1923, of both the idea and the reality of a type of nation-state that claims to be based on, or to require, a unified national identity among its population. Characteristically, such states also worked hard to invent a “collective memory” to underpin the hoped-for identity. This course explores this development, as well as alternative models of political engagement. Prerequisites: Undergraduates must be at least actual 3rd years.

Credits: 3