Ireland and Ukraine Studies in Comparative Imperial and National History
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The contributors to this volume show that the themes of empire, colony, and national liberation movements can be addressed in a European continental as much as in Asian, Latin American, or African contexts. There is a further benefit from a within-Europe comparison: It calls into question the tendency to assume fundamental differences between "western" and "eastern" Europe, including the now largely abandoned distinction between a "western" nationalism, defined as a civil nationalism, and an "eastern" one, defined as ethnic. It also answers the question whether intra-European comparison of this kind is possible, in a context where post-Soviet scholarship is often invisible in Anglo-American scholarship. As Norman Davies reminds us, low public awareness of Europe's smaller and, in west-European minds, "more distant" nations, underlies the persistence of false generalizations about them, including assumptions like "that the whole of the west was advanced while the whole of the east was backward."--
Ireland and Ukraine Studies in Comparative Imperial and National History Gennadii Kazakevych and Olga Kazakevych and Geoffrey Hosking and Donnacha O Beachain and Mykola Riabchuk and Diarmuid O Giollain and Oleksii Yas and Evi Gkotzaridis and Sergei I. Zhuk and Christophe Gillissen and Liam Kennedy and Serhiy Blavatskyy and Oksana Weretiuk and Anna Shukalovych and Roisin Healy and Darragh Gannon and Andy Bielenberg and Oleksandr Zaitsev and Valentyna Popova and Viacheslav Popov and Yuliya Yurchenko and Ostap Kushnir and Andrzej Szeptycki and Hiroaki Kuromiya and James W. McAuley and Taras Kuzio and Alfred Rieber
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The contributors to this volume show that the themes of empire, colony, and national liberation movements can be addressed in a European continental as much as in Asian, Latin American, or African contexts. There is a further benefit from a within-Europe comparison: It calls into question the tendency to assume fundamental differences between "western" and "eastern" Europe, including the now largely abandoned distinction between a "western" nationalism, defined as a civil nationalism, and an "eastern" one, defined as ethnic. It also answers the question whether intra-European comparison of this kind is possible, in a context where post-Soviet scholarship is often invisible in Anglo-American scholarship. As Norman Davies reminds us, low public awareness of Europe's smaller and, in west-European minds, "more distant" nations, underlies the persistence of false generalizations about them, including assumptions like "that the whole of the west was advanced while the whole of the east was backward."--