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Proto-Nationalism In Scandinavia: Swedish State Building In The Middle Ages, Alexander Jacobson
Proto-Nationalism In Scandinavia: Swedish State Building In The Middle Ages, Alexander Jacobson
Honors Program Theses
Nationalism is usually considered a modern socio-political development and a product of the French and Industrial Revolutions. However most scholarship done on nationalism largely overlooks religion, and excludes both its presence in the Middle Ages and its development in Scandinavia--focusing heavily on German, British, French, and Central European variations of nationalism. For Scandinavians in the late Middle Ages and Early Modern era, nationalism did not emerge exactly like their European counterparts. It was the product of early religious, technological, and economic changes over the course of the 15th and 16th Centuries that restructured European politics, society, and identity. Using early …
Steel Chrysanthemums: Feminism And Nationalist Rhetoric In Meiji Japan, Alix Bruce
Steel Chrysanthemums: Feminism And Nationalist Rhetoric In Meiji Japan, Alix Bruce
History Theses
This thesis focuses on Hiratsuka Raichou, a prominent Japanese feminist, and Tsuda Umeko, a famous educator, and their published works in regards to the nationalistic Meiji state. By analyzing their work, as well as the contexts within which they operated, a new perspective on feminism in Japan can be put forward: that feminism, like many other movements in Japan during the same period, was affected extensively by Japanese nationalism and the cult of imperial personality.