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NATIONALISM AND POLITICAL LIBERTY
REDLICH, NAMIER, AND THE CRISIS OF EMPIRE |
| By: |
Amy Ng |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£140.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
019927309X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199273096 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
5 August, 2004 |
| Series: |
Oxford Historical Monographs |
| Pages: |
346 |
| Description: |
Joseph Redlich (1869-1936) and Lewis Namier (1888-1960) were both politically active historians from upper-middle-class assimilated Habsburg Jewish backgrounds. They grew up in an era of rising anti-Semitism, integral nationalism and nationality conflict which witnessed the eclipse of liberalism and made the position of assimilated Jews increasingly untenable. Both devoted their lives to understanding the relationship between political liberty, nationalism, andnationality conflict and in this book Ng undertakes a comparative analysis of these two influential men. |
| Synopsis: |
National self-determination and the formation of nation-states has been the preferred liberal solution to the nationality problem in Central and Eastern Europe. Historians have played a prominent role in constructing nationalist narratives to legitimize the new nation-states arising from the corpse of the multinational Habsburg empire. The alternative liberal and historiographical tradition which privileges multinational states over nation-states, most famously associated with Lord Acton, has been relatively ignored. Dr Ng addresses this imbalance by concentrating on the lives and works of Josef Relich (1869-1936) and Lewis Namier (1869-1936), both politically active historians from upper-middle-class assimilated Habsburg Jewish backgrounds. They were anti-nationalist historians in an age of nationalism, and staunch defenders of parliamentary democracy in an era when parliamentary democracy came under attack from both the political Right and Left. Both men argued that modern nationalism with its absolutist claims militated against the spirit of tolerance and mutual compromise essential to parliamentary government.This innovative, intellectual history places Redlich and Namier in context. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Clarendon Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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