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Whose Love of Which Country?

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Contributors to this volume seek to reconsider the heritage of discourses of patriotism and national allegiance in East Central Europe between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. It results...
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  • 08 March 2010
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Contributors to this volume seek to reconsider the heritage of discourses of patriotism and national allegiance in East Central Europe between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. It results from an international research project, “The Intellectual History of Patriotism and the Legacy of Composite States in East Central Europe,” which brought together scholars to discuss the problem of patriotism in the light of the many levels of ethnic, cultural and political allegiances characterizing East Central Europe in early modern times. The authors analyze the complex process of the formation, reception and transmission of early modern discourses of collective identity in a regional context. Along these lines, the contributors also seek to reconfigure the geographical focus of scholarship on this topic and integrate the Eastern European contexts into the broader European discussion.
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Price: $229.00
Pages: 784
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in the History of Political Thought
Publication Date: 08 March 2010
ISBN: 9789004182622
Format: Hardcover
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"[Whose Love of Which Country] not only maintains a high quality in the twenty-five studies which thematically cover the expanse of Central and East Central Europe from Poland, The Bohemian lands and Hungary through to the states of former Yugoslavia, Romania and Bulgaria, but also sustains a unifying theme - the perception of "nation" in the period before nineteenth-century nationalism, the time designated as the Early Modern Period. [...] [A] new foundation for future cooperation has been laid [...]." – Jiří Hrbek, Acta Comeniana, Vol. 25 (2011), pp. 306-316
"The volume [...] makes an important contribution to the research into a chronological and geographical sector of the history of political ideas that until very recently has been almost completely neglected." – Iva Manova, Universa. Recensioni di filosofia, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2011)
"Z pewnością znakomicie przysłuży się upowszechnianiu wiedzy o specyfice myśli środkowoeuropejskiej i jej miejscu w dorobku intelektualnym zachodniej cywilizacji…inspirujące wprowadzenie do opracowania wielu zagadnień związanych z wyobrażeniami na temat państwa i społeczeństwa.” – Patryk Sapala, Kwartalnik Historyczny, Vol. CXVIII, No. 4 (2011), pp. 743-751
Balázs Trencsényi Ph.D. (2004) in Comparative History, Central European University, is an Associate Professor at the History Department of CEU, Budapest, and co-director of Pasts, Inc., Center for Historical Studies at CEU. His main field of interest is the history of political thought in East Central Europe. In 2008 he received a European Research Council grant as principal investigator in the project “Negotiating Modernity”: History of Modern Political Thought in East-Central Europe. He has co-edited a number of volumes on political ideas and historiography in the region, including Nation-Building and Contested Identities: Romanian and Hungarian Case Studies (2001); Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1775-1945): Texts and Commentaries, Vols. I-II (2006-7); and Narratives Unbound: Historical Studies in Post-Communist Eastern Europe (2007). A collection of his studies on the history of political thought, A politika nyelvei [The languages of politics], has been published in Hungarian (2007).

Márton Zászkaliczky is a Ph.D. candidate at the History Department of Central European University, Budapest. His dissertation is entitled Protestant Political Theology and its Impact on Corporate Constitutionalism in 16th-17th century Hungary. His main field of interest is early modern political thought and the history of the Reformation, especially in Hungary, England and Scotland.