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Remaking Identities
God, Nation, and Race in World History
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2013
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For centuries conquerors, missionaries, and political movements acting in the name of a single god, nation, or race have sought to remake human identities. Tracing the rise of exclusive forms of identity over the past 1500 years, this innovative book explores both the creation and destruction of exclusive identities, including those based on nationalism and monotheistic religion. Benjamin Lieberman focuses on two critical phases of world history: the age of holy war and conversion, and the age of nationalism and racism. His cases include the rise of Islam, the expansion of medieval Christianity, Spanish conquests in the Americas, Muslim expansion in India, settler expansion in North America, nationalist cleansing in modern Europe and Asia, and Nazi Germany’s efforts to build a racial empire. He convincingly shows that efforts to transplant and expand new identities have paradoxically generated long periods of both stability and explosive violence that remade the human landscape around the world.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-1393-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-1395-1
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
307
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
Chapter One: Building the Realm of Islam No access Pages 11 - 42
Chapter Two: Word and Sword in the Making of Christian Europe No access Pages 43 - 88
Chapter Three: Spain and Catholic Empire in the New World No access Pages 89 - 130
Chapter Four: Islam in India No access Pages 131 - 158
Chapter Five: Settler Society and Populist Imperialism No access Pages 159 - 206
Chapter Six: Nationalizing States and Traitor Peoples in the Shatterzone of Empires No access Pages 207 - 240
Chapter Seven: The Contradictions of Racial Empire No access Pages 241 - 278
