Confronting the Nation: Jewish and Western Nationalism

by George L. Mosse

Confronting the Nation brings together twelve of celebrated historian George L. Mosse's most important essays to explore competing forms of European nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Mosse coins the term "civic religion" to describe how nationalism, especially in Germany and France, simultaneously inspired and disciplined the populace through the use of rituals and symbols. The definition of citizenship shaped by this nationalism,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299346447
• ISBN13: 9780299346447
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"