The Invention of TraditionEric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger Cambridge University Press, 26 mar 2012 Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention – the creation of Welsh and Scottish 'national culture'; the elaboration of British royal rituals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the origins of imperial rituals in British India and Africa; and the attempts by radical movements to develop counter-traditions of their own. It addresses the complex interaction of past and present, bringing together historians and anthropologists in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism which poses new questions for the understanding of our history. |
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Pagina 7
... English Christmas folk carols ceased to be created in the seventeenth century, to be replaced by hymn-book carols of the Watts—Wesley kind, though a demotic modification of these in largely rural religions like Primitive Methodism may ...
... English Christmas folk carols ceased to be created in the seventeenth century, to be replaced by hymn-book carols of the Watts—Wesley kind, though a demotic modification of these in largely rural religions like Primitive Methodism may ...
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... English officer posted to Scotland as chief surveyor under General Wade, then wrote a series of letters, mainly from Inverness, describing the character and customs of the country. In these he gives a careful description of the 'quelt ...
... English officer posted to Scotland as chief surveyor under General Wade, then wrote a series of letters, mainly from Inverness, describing the character and customs of the country. In these he gives a careful description of the 'quelt ...
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... English Quaker from Lancashire, Thomas Rawlinson. The Rawlinsons were a long-established family of Quaker ironmasters in Furness. By the early eighteenth century, in association with other prominent Quaker families-Fords, Crosfields ...
... English Quaker from Lancashire, Thomas Rawlinson. The Rawlinsons were a long-established family of Quaker ironmasters in Furness. By the early eighteenth century, in association with other prominent Quaker families-Fords, Crosfields ...
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... English Quaker industrialist, and that it was bestowed by him on the Highlanders in order not to preserve their traditional way of life but to case its transformation: to bring them out of the heather and into the factory. But if this ...
... English Quaker industrialist, and that it was bestowed by him on the Highlanders in order not to preserve their traditional way of life but to case its transformation: to bring them out of the heather and into the factory. But if this ...
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... English invention and 'clan' tartans did not exist. However, that rebellion marked a change in the sartorial as well as in the social and economic history of Scotland. After the rebellion had been crushed, the British government decided ...
... English invention and 'clan' tartans did not exist. However, that rebellion marked a change in the sartorial as well as in the social and economic history of Scotland. After the rebellion had been crushed, the British government decided ...
Sommario
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The Hunt for the Welsh Past | 43 |
Representing Authority in Victorian India | 165 |
The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa | 211 |
Europe 18701914 | 263 |
Index | 309 |
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