Ireland and Ukraine
The contributors to this volume show that the themes of empire, colony, and national liberation movements can be addressed in a European continental context 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 of 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 generalisations about them, including assumptions like "that the whole of the west was advanced while the whole of the east was backward."
The contributors to this volume show that the themes of empire, colony, and national liberation movements can be addressed in a European continental context 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 of 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 generalisations about them, including assumptions like "that the whole of the west was advanced while the whole of the east was backward."
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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 context 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 of 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 generalisations about them, including assumptions like "that the whole of the west was advanced while the whole of the east was backward."
