Author: "DANIEL A. SEGAL"
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 16:02:52 PCT

Subject: Comparative Nationalism

Another source worth reviewing is the various volumes of the _Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism_ which provides a wide selection of articles on comparative nationalism around the world.

David A. Meier

Author: "DANIEL A. SEGAL"
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 22:59:08 PCT

Chris Garton-Zavesky wrote:

>"nationalism" was a European concept exported to other parts of the >world.

Chatterjee offers an important response to this widely accepted view of the historiography of nationalism. And a somewhat different response can be found in R. Handler and D. Segal "How European is Nationalism?" *Social Analysis* (no. 32) and also in "Nations, Colonies & Metropoles," a special issue of *Social Analysis* (no. 33) ed. by. D. Segal and R. Handler. The argument here is that the nationalisms of European states have important genealogies in geographically dispersed colonial encounter, rather than primarily "in" Europe.

     Dan Segal
     dsegal@bernard.pitzer.edu

Author: "DANIEL A. SEGAL"
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1994 14:09:18 PCT

I'm afraid I won't be much help here, but the comment must be made: "nationalism" was a European concept exported to other parts of the world. Therefore there is no reason to believe that an other-than-Eurocentric view of nationalism could intelligently be constructed.

     Chris Garton-Zavesky
     gartoncj@hcl.chass.ncsu.edu

Author: "DANIEL A. SEGAL"
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 1994 09:56:02 PCT

I would also recommend Chatterjee's work. His earlier work, *Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World* is also relevant. Another important volume that does a wonderful job locating nationalism in a comparative perspective is Richard Handler's *Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec*.

     Daniel Segal
     dsegal@bernard.pitzer.edu

Author: "DANIEL A. SEGAL"
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 1994 09:52:41 PCT

From hearsay (haven't read it myself) I would recommend Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and its Fragments (bk). See also his article in the volume Recasting Women, eds. Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid.

     Lora Wildenthal
     Pitzer College
     lwilden@pitzer.edu

Author: MANNING@neu.edu
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 1994 21:53:15 -0500

I have been reading through Benedict Anderson's IMAGINED COMMUNITIES and
Anthony D. Smith's THEORIES OF NATIONALISM, trying to find a way to
conceptualize nationalism in a comparative way that would inform my undregraduate lectures but also help to revise a conference paper I presented on nationalism and schooling in the U.S. in the late 19th-century.

Does anyone have suggestions for monographs or articles that treat nationalism in non-Eurocentric ways? (Works on individual countries, or
ethnicities, would also be welcome if you think that they could be used to frame comparative ideas.)

Thanks!!

Robert S. Wolff
History, University of Minnesota
wolf0010@gold.tc.umn.edu

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