Nation-Building and Identity in Europe: The Dialogics of Reciprocity [Hardcover]

This book offers a provocative theorization of nationhood, focusing on the key role played by dialogic relations of hegemony, resistance and reciprocity in the birth of the modern European nation. The relationship between Greece and Britain at the end of the nineteenth century?uncovers the linguistic construction of nationalism.Introduction PART I: CRIME AND DISORDER Brigands, Nationalists and Colonial Discourse Crime, Identity and Historical Legacy PART II: DISCIPLINING IDENTITY Anthropological Encounters Crimes of Ethnohistory PART III: IDEAS OF GREATNESS Unpaid Debts and Duties British Patrons and Puerile Greeks Revisioning Identity

'...a refreshing critical book that complements a relatively long list of Anglophone (as well as Greek) literature on modern Greece and its nation formation endeavours. The book is innovative in its perspective, truly interdisciplinary and although much of the historical details and sources cited may attract the interest mainly of experts, its plain style makes it attractive to the general reader too.' - Nations and Nationalism

RODANTHI TZANELLI is Lecturer in Sociology and Deputy Director of CERS, University of Leeds, UK. She is author of The Cinematic Tourist: Explorations in Globalization, Culture and Resistance.