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The nation in the village : the genesis of peasant national identity in Austrian Poland, 1848-1914 /

"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 i...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stauter-Halsted, Keely, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, ©2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Politics in the postemancipation Galician Village
  • Emancipation and its discontents
  • The roots of peasant civil society: premodern politics in the Galician Village
  • Customs in conflict: peasant politics in the Viennese Reichstag and the Galician Sejm
  • Making government work: the village commune as a school for political action
  • The construction of a peasant pole
  • The peasant as literary and ethnographic trope
  • The gentry construction of peasants: agricultural circles and the resurgence of peasant culture
  • Education and the shaping of a village elite
  • The nation in the village: competing images of Poland in popular culture
  • The village in the nation: Polish peasants as a political force
  • Conclusion: The main currents of peasant nationalism.