National Identity

Name: National Identity
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Anthony D Smith
ISBN: 9780140125658

Anthony D Smith

25/04/1991
Penguin Books Ltd

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de National Identity par Anthony D Smith

Résumé

National identity is often cited as a major contributing factor to many of the world's worst trouble spots, for example Palestinians versus Jews in Israel, the troubles in Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Bangladesh, Armenia and Tibet. This book addresses the issue of why national identity is so important. It examines how it differs from racial, ethnic and regional identity and how it originated in both the West and the Third World. The relationship between national identity and language is shown by the author to be important, but crucial to an enduring sense of national identity is religion and it capacity to separate groups of people.