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- catalog abstract "Modern-day Europeans by the millions proudly trace back their national identities to the Celts, Franks, Gauls, Goths, Huns, or Serbs--or some combination of the various peoples who inhabited, traversed, or pillaged their continent more than a thousand years ago. According to Patrick Geary, this is historical nonsense. The idea that national character is fixed for all time in a simpler, distant past is groundless, he argues in this unflinching reconsideration of European nationhood. Few of the peoples that many Europeans honor as sharing their sense of ''nation'' had comparably homogeneous identities even the Huns, he points out, were firmly united only under Attila's ten-year reign. Geary dismantles the nationalist myths about how the nations of Europe were born. He contrasts the myths with the actual history of Europe's transformation between the fourth and ninth centuries--the period of grand migrations that nationalists hold dear. The nationalist sentiments today increasingly taken for granted in Europe emerged, he argues, only in the nineteenth century. Ironically, this phenomenon was kept alive not just by responsive populations--but by complicit scholars. Ultimately, Geary concludes, the actual formation of European peoples must be seen as an extended process that began in antiquity and continues in the present. The resulting image is a challenge to those who anchor contemporary antagonisms in ancient myths--to those who claim that immigration and tolerance toward minorities despoil ''nationhood.'' As Geary shows, such ideologues--whether Le Pens who champion ''the French people born with the baptism of Clovis in 496'' or Milosevics who cite early Serbian history to claim rebellious regions--know their myths but not their history.".
- catalog contributor b12338503.
- catalog coverage "Europe Ethnic relations History.".
- catalog coverage "Europe Race relations.".
- catalog coverage "Rome Boundaries History.".
- catalog coverage "Rome History Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries.".
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-187) and index.".
- catalog description "Modern-day Europeans by the millions proudly trace back their national identities to the Celts, Franks, Gauls, Goths, Huns, or Serbs--or some combination of the various peoples who inhabited, traversed, or pillaged their continent more than a thousand years ago. According to Patrick Geary, this is historical nonsense. The idea that national character is fixed for all time in a simpler, distant past is groundless, he argues in this unflinching reconsideration of European nationhood. Few of the peoples that many Europeans honor as sharing their sense of ''nation'' had comparably homogeneous identities even the Huns, he points out, were firmly united only under Attila's ten-year reign. Geary dismantles the nationalist myths about how the nations of Europe were born. He contrasts the myths with the actual history of Europe's transformation between the fourth and ninth centuries--the period of grand migrations that nationalists hold dear. The nationalist sentiments today increasingly taken for granted in Europe emerged, he argues, only in the nineteenth century. Ironically, this phenomenon was kept alive not just by responsive populations--but by complicit scholars. Ultimately, Geary concludes, the actual formation of European peoples must be seen as an extended process that began in antiquity and continues in the present. The resulting image is a challenge to those who anchor contemporary antagonisms in ancient myths--to those who claim that immigration and tolerance toward minorities despoil ''nationhood.'' As Geary shows, such ideologues--whether Le Pens who champion ''the French people born with the baptism of Clovis in 496'' or Milosevics who cite early Serbian history to claim rebellious regions--know their myths but not their history.".
- catalog description "The crisis of European identity -- A poisoned landscape : ethnicity and nationalism in the nineteenth century -- Imagining peoples in antiquity -- Barbarians and other Romans -- New barbarians and new Romans -- The last barbarians? -- Toward new European peoples.".
- catalog extent "x, 199 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0691090548 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Europe Ethnic relations History.".
- catalog spatial "Europe Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "Europe".
- catalog spatial "Europe.".
- catalog spatial "Rome Boundaries History.".
- catalog spatial "Rome History Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries.".
- catalog subject "D135 .G43 2002".
- catalog subject "Immigrants Europe.".
- catalog subject "Nationalism Europe History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Xenophobia Europe.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The crisis of European identity -- A poisoned landscape : ethnicity and nationalism in the nineteenth century -- Imagining peoples in antiquity -- Barbarians and other Romans -- New barbarians and new Romans -- The last barbarians? -- Toward new European peoples.".
- catalog title "The myth of nations : the Medieval origins of Europe / Patrick J. Geary.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".