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PublisherColumbia University Press

ISBN-100231111509

ISBN-139780231111508

eBay Product ID (ePID)683366

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Number of Pages416 Pages

Publication NameNational Collective Identity : Social Constructs and International Systems

LanguageEnglish

SubjectInternational Relations / General

Publication Year1999

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science

AuthorRodney Bruce Hall

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight24.6 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.5 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN98-027127

ReviewsTitle: Book takes a historical look at Huntsville Author: Matthew Jackson Publisher: The Huntsville Item Date: 5/2/09 Jeff Littlejohn might be the last person you’d expected to compile a book on Huntsville’s history. The Dallas native spent his teenage years in Nashville, earned his bachelor’s degree in history from Belmont University in Tennessee and his master’s degree in history from the University of Arkansas. Littlejohn even admits never having been to Huntsville before he took a job as an assistant professor of history at Sam Houston State University in 2005. But after three years dwelling in the home of Sam Houston, he couldn’t help but get drawn in by the history. Last year, Littlejohn partnered with the Walker County Historical Commission and began to research a book of photographs chronicling the story of Huntsville from its establishment to the mid-20th century. The result is Huntsville,” the latest installment in Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America” series. The book will hit stores May 4. Littlejohn conceived the book as a way to tie Huntsville’s history to his teaching in a more direct way. I teach U.S. history, and I try to relate it to local stories as much as possible, because that’s what the students seem interested in,” Littlejohn said. It was difficult to find a book on Huntsville that was for a sale at a bookstore.” Intrigued by the stories he had already learned about early Huntsville, Littlejohn began working with the Historical Commission, researching photographs using a variety of sources. In the end, he compiled 240 images into the 128 pages of Huntsville, following a thematic organization that separately addresses Huntsville’s founding families, schools, churches and other major elements. It’s a thematic book, so the first chapter I called ‘Founding Families,’ and it covered from Pleasant Gray in the 1830s to the yellow fever epidemic of 1867,” Littlejohn said. The last chapter is called ‘National Connections,’ and it really tries to place Huntsville in a national context.” Among the images in Huntsville” are portraits of Sam Houston, images of the original Huntsville land grant, a drawing of Huntsville from the 1840s, and Pleasant Gray’s signature on a deed selling Huntsville’s town square to the city for a dollar. There are also the darker elements of Huntsville’s history, including slave advertisements printed by The Huntsville Item in the 1860s, and images from the civil rights movement 100 years later. I think the chapter I enjoyed doing the most was the one on schools, because desegregation of schools is my research interest, so it was interesting to tell the story of schools in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,” Littlejohn said. With the book prepared for release, Littlejohn is now working to expand the photo project into a digital medium. We’re seeking a Humanities Texas grant for a piece called ‘Democracy and Diversity in Walker County,’” Littlejohn said. It’s going to be a digital project that explores the topic in great detail with six of my colleagues in the history department. So if anything, the book was a starting point.” After nine months of research and compilation, Littlejohn feels he has achieved something with Huntsville,” establishing a clearer picture of Huntsville’s history, and shedding light on the city’s diversity. My hope was that it would present a more unified portrait of Huntsville, in the sense that many of the books that have come out in the past are either dominated by the great white heroes of the past or the great black heroes of the past,” Littlejohn said. I tried to do something that incorporated as much as I could the variety of the people who lived in Huntsville.” <br, "A major constructivist statement....an essential read for IR theorists." -- Chris Brown, London School of Economics, Ethnic and Racial Studies, "Hall's work provides an important link between international-relations theory and nationalism scholarship." -- Nationalism and Ethnic Politics

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal320.1/2

Table Of ContentPreface and Acknowledgments Part I. Collective Identity and International Relations Theory Chapter 1. International Relations Without Nations? Chapter 2. Social Identities and Social System Chapter 3. Identities and Social Orders: International Systems in Modern History Part II. Territorial-Sovereign Identity Chapter 4. Raison d'Etat and Territorial Sovereignty: Mercantilist Absolutism and Eighteenth-Century Imperialism Chapter 5. Territorial-Sovereign Identity and the Seven Years' War Part III National-Sovereign Identity Chapter 6. The Emergence of National-Sovereign Identity: Revolutionary Nationalism and Reaction Chapter 7. Use and Misuse of the Principle of Nationality: The Demise of the Second Empire and the Birth of the Second Reich Chapter 8. National Sovereignty and the New Imperialism: The Global Transmission of Bourgeois-National Identity and Culture Chapter 9. "Over-the-Top'' and "Over There'': Status Contests Among National-Sovereigns Part IV Conclusions and Implications Chapter 10. The Helpless Colossus: The Politics of Identity and Hopeful Nondeterminism

SynopsisQuestions of national identity have become pivotal for peacekeepers, policy-makers and scholars. This book illustrates how centuries-old dynastic traditions have been replaced in the modern era by nationalist and ethnic identity movements., Hall illustrates how centuries-old dynastic traditions have been replaced in the modern era by nationalist and ethnic identity movements.

LC Classification NumberJZ1251.H35 1999