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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... Social History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a foundermember of the journal Past & Present. Among his many publications is Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality (1990). PRYS MORG AN is Reader in ...
... Social History at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a foundermember of the journal Past & Present. Among his many publications is Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality (1990). PRYS MORG AN is Reader in ...
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... social life within it as unchanging and invariant, that makes the 'invention of tradition ' so interesting for historians of the past two centuries. 'Tradition' in this sense must be distinguished clearly from 'custom' which dominates ...
... social life within it as unchanging and invariant, that makes the 'invention of tradition ' so interesting for historians of the past two centuries. 'Tradition' in this sense must be distinguished clearly from 'custom' which dominates ...
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... social practice that needs to be carried out repeatedly will tend, for convenience and efliciency, to develop a set of such conventions and routines, which may be de facto or de jure formalized for the purposes of imparting the practice ...
... social practice that needs to be carried out repeatedly will tend, for convenience and efliciency, to develop a set of such conventions and routines, which may be de facto or de jure formalized for the purposes of imparting the practice ...
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... social patterns for which ' old ' traditions had been designed, producing new ones to which they were not applicable, or when such old traditions and their institutional carriers and promulgators no longer prove sufficiently adaptable ...
... social patterns for which ' old ' traditions had been designed, producing new ones to which they were not applicable, or when such old traditions and their institutional carriers and promulgators no longer prove sufficiently adaptable ...
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... social change systematically failed to provide for the social and authority ties taken for granted in earlier societies, and created voids which might have to be filled by invented practices. The success of nineteenth-century Tory ...
... social change systematically failed to provide for the social and authority ties taken for granted in earlier societies, and created voids which might have to be filled by invented practices. The success of nineteenth-century Tory ...
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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