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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... dress. In 1805 Sir Walter Scott wrote, for publication in the Edinburgh Review, an essay on Macpherson's Ossian. In ... Highland Dress (1962). of colours — was known in Scotland in the sixteenth 18 HUGH TREVOR-ROPER.
... dress. In 1805 Sir Walter Scott wrote, for publication in the Edinburgh Review, an essay on Macpherson's Ossian. In ... Highland Dress (1962). of colours — was known in Scotland in the sixteenth 18 HUGH TREVOR-ROPER.
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... Highlands through the Lowlands), the philibeg — name and thing — is unknown before the eighteenth century. So far from being a traditional Highland dress, it was invented by an Englishman after the Union of 1707; and the differentiated ...
... Highlands through the Lowlands), the philibeg — name and thing — is unknown before the eighteenth century. So far from being a traditional Highland dress, it was invented by an Englishman after the Union of 1707; and the differentiated ...
Pagina 20
... Highland dress because already, in his time, it was the object of political controversy. After the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 the British parliament had considered banning it by law, as the Irish dress had been banned under Henry VIII ...
... Highland dress because already, in his time, it was the object of political controversy. After the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 the British parliament had considered banning it by law, as the Irish dress had been banned under Henry VIII ...
Pagina 21
... Highland dress, it was conceded, was convenient and necessary in a country where a traveller must ' skip over the ... dress for an ordinary Highlander' who could never afford even the coarsest 'Lowland suit'. It is ironical that if the ...
... Highland dress, it was conceded, was convenient and necessary in a country where a traveller must ' skip over the ... dress for an ordinary Highlander' who could never afford even the coarsest 'Lowland suit'. It is ironical that if the ...
Pagina 22
... dress and make it handy and convenient for his workmen'. The result was the felie beg, philibeg, or 'small kilt ... Highland countries and in many of the Northern Lowland countries also'. This account of the origin of the kilt was first given ...
... dress and make it handy and convenient for his workmen'. The result was the felie beg, philibeg, or 'small kilt ... Highland countries and in many of the Northern Lowland countries also'. This account of the origin of the kilt was first given ...
Sommario
1 | |
15 | |
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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