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Introduction: Localités And Nationalism As The Vestigial And The Lncipient?, Newton E. Key
Introduction: Localités And Nationalism As The Vestigial And The Lncipient?, Newton E. Key
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The professionalization of history was tightly bound to nationalism. Historians in early modern Europe distinguished between story and inventory: chronology and chorography. The latter was the domain of the local antiquarian and county historian.3 Nineteenth-century historians sought to validate their narratives as the story of something important, the growth of the nation-state. The earliest professional journals and organizations-The English Historical Review (first published in 1886), the American Historical Association (founded in 1884 and incorporated by Congress in 1889)-were national. Even as local history professionalized and cut its antiquarian/chorographical roots, the profession still marginalized it, and local history was mainly published …
Localités And Early Modern Britain, Newton E. Key
Localités And Early Modern Britain, Newton E. Key
Newton Key
In early modem England local identity often was more important than national identity, and "country" as often meant one's native shire as one's nation state.
Introduction: Localités And Nationalism As The Vestigial And The Lncipient?, Newton E. Key
Introduction: Localités And Nationalism As The Vestigial And The Lncipient?, Newton E. Key
Newton Key
The professionalization of history was tightly bound to nationalism. Historians in early modern Europe distinguished between story and inventory: chronology and chorography. The latter was the domain of the local antiquarian and county historian. Even as local history professionalized and cut its antiquarian/chorographical roots, the profession still marginalized it, and local history was mainly published by antiquarian or local societies. Even those who carved out a field distinct from national history, such as the German genre of Landesgeschicte (regional or provincial history), were considered subordinate if not actually suspect endeavors by the profession. Recently, however, European historians have embraced the …
Becoming Mormon Men: Male Rites Of Passage And The Rise Of Mormonism In Nineteenth-Century America, Bruce R. Lott
Becoming Mormon Men: Male Rites Of Passage And The Rise Of Mormonism In Nineteenth-Century America, Bruce R. Lott
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The evidence presented in this thesis supports a view of the first Mormon men as coming from the agrarian majority of early nineteenth-century American farmers and artisans who embraced a set of manly ideals that differed significantly, in many ways, from those embraced by their middle-class contemporaries. These men's life writings attest to boyhood experiences of working alongside their fathers as soon as they were physically able, and subsequently of acting as substitute farmers and breadwinners as well as being put out to work outside the direct supervision of their fathers. Such experiences enabled them to frequently follow in the …
Beyond 'Identity', Rogers Brubaker, Frederick Cooper
Beyond 'Identity', Rogers Brubaker, Frederick Cooper
Rogers Brubaker
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