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Smasher's Mail, Vol. 1, No. 6, 1901, Carrie Amelia Nation
Smasher's Mail, Vol. 1, No. 6, 1901, Carrie Amelia Nation
Smasher's Mail Newspaper Collection, 1901
Issue of The Smasher's Mail newspaper, published by Carrie A. Nation, May 8, 1901, in Topeka, Kansas, which contains essays, letters, illustrations, cartoons, and poetry devoted to the temperance cause.
'Race', Nation And Belonging In Ireland, Jonathan Mitchell
'Race', Nation And Belonging In Ireland, Jonathan Mitchell
Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies
Despite consistent efforts to counteract those attitudes and practices that give rise to it, most putatively modern Western nations continue to experience the concrete effects of racial discrimination. This essay argues that nationality is all too easily conflated with ‘race’ or ethnicity, such that a seeming essence or givenness is manifested amongst all those within a particular geographic boundary. It is suggested that on the contrary, there is nothing natural about nationality as commonly understood; this being so, it must be continually shored up and reconstituted through social, linguistic and material practices. For modern nations in the West, this has …
National History And The Novel In 1930s Britain, Erica Delsandro
National History And The Novel In 1930s Britain, Erica Delsandro
All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
Although indebted to scholars whose work has illuminated the distinctiveness of 1930s Britain, "National History and the Novel in 1930s Britain" argues that rather than seeking distinction, writers of the period were more concerned with the task of contextualizing their decade and their own position within a national historiography from which they felt the Great War and military masculinities had excluded them. Focusing on the novelists Christopher Isherwood, Evelyn Waugh, and Virginia Woolf, and the philosopher of history, R. G. Collingwood, I describe how the 1930s inheritors of British cultural privilege found themselves symbolically disenfranchised from a national identity inextricably …