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8%OFFKeely Stauter-Halsted - The Nation in the Village. The Genesis of Peasant, National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848-1914.  - 9780801489969 - V9780801489969
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The Nation in the Village. The Genesis of Peasant, National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848-1914.

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Description for The Nation in the Village. The Genesis of Peasant, National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848-1914. Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.

How do peasants come to think of themselves as members of a nation? The widely accepted argument is that national sentiment originates among intellectuals or urban middle classes, then "trickles down" to the working class and peasants. Keely Stauter-Halsted argues that such models overlook the independent contribution of peasant societies. She explores the complex case of the Polish peasants of Austrian Galicia, from the 1848 emancipation of the serfs to the eve of the First World War.

In the years immediately after emancipation, Polish-speaking peasants were more apt to identify with the Austrian Emperor and the Catholic Church than with ... Read more

The explanation for this shift, Stauter-Halsted says, is the symbiosis that developed between peasant elites and upper-class reformers. She reconstructs this difficult, halting process, paying particular attention to public life and conflicts within the rural communities themselves. The author's approach is at once comparative and interdisciplinary, drawing from literature on national identity formation in Latin America, China, and Western Europe. The Nation in the Village combines anthropology, sociology, and literary criticism with economic, social, cultural, and political history.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801489969
SKU
V9780801489969
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About Keely Stauter-Halsted
Keely Stauter-Halsted is Professor of History and Stefan & Lucy Hejna Family Chair in the History of Poland at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of The Devil's Chain: Prostitution and Social Control in Partitioned Poland and The Nation in the Village: The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848–1914.

Reviews for The Nation in the Village. The Genesis of Peasant, National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848-1914.
The Nation in the Village prompts a generous run of intriguing questions pertinent to (and often challenging) the prevailing historiography of nationalism and the peasantry in Poland.
Slavic and Eastern European Review
Insightful and innovative... Stauter-Halsted's book is a fine example that draws on a dazzling array of printed and archival sources to reveal what peasants themselves were ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Nation in the Village. The Genesis of Peasant, National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848-1914.


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