Images of the Nation: Different Meanings of Dutchness 1870-1940Annemieke Galema, Barbara Henkes, Henk te Velde Rodopi, 1993 - 220 pages This collection of case studies investigates the significance and function of national identity. The authors see national consciousness in terms of the circumstances in which it arose, and in terms of the meaning which it had for a specific group or individual. Representations of the nation could serve to legitimize or support specific political or social agendas, or to provide people with a point of fixity amidst changing circumstances. The articles in this volume trace these aspects of national consciousness in the case of a single country: The Netherlands. |
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... Prussian army between 1864 and 1871 and the sobering experience of the Dutch mobilization of July - September 1870 caused a growing insistence on the need for drastic improve- ments in the army and the military pressure on the ...
... Prussian army between 1864 and 1871 and the sobering experience of the Dutch mobilization of July - September 1870 caused a growing insistence on the need for drastic improve- ments in the army and the military pressure on the ...
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... Prussian victories were largely attributed to the very fact that well - to - do citizens , the economic and intellectual leaders of the nation par- ticipated in the army . An infantry officer , Van Tuerenhout , an admirer of the Prussian ...
... Prussian victories were largely attributed to the very fact that well - to - do citizens , the economic and intellectual leaders of the nation par- ticipated in the army . An infantry officer , Van Tuerenhout , an admirer of the Prussian ...
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... Prussian army , were to be paid for by the conscripts themselves . Because they would mean the participation of the well - to - do in the army , they would lead to a fraternization between the social classes and would refine the manners ...
... Prussian army , were to be paid for by the conscripts themselves . Because they would mean the participation of the well - to - do in the army , they would lead to a fraternization between the social classes and would refine the manners ...
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... satisfied Dutch needs " , but concluded that a cadremilitia army more or less along Prussian lines met these re- quirements . lawlessness and the lack of restraint.'37 How different had been The salutary yoke of discipline ... 31.
... satisfied Dutch needs " , but concluded that a cadremilitia army more or less along Prussian lines met these re- quirements . lawlessness and the lack of restraint.'37 How different had been The salutary yoke of discipline ... 31.
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... Prussian victories - had advocated the abolition of substitution.45 42 W.E. van Dam van Isselt , ' Nationale oorlogsvoorbereiding ' , Orgaan van de vereeniging ter beoefening van de krijgswetenschap ( 1911-1912 ) : 5-107 . 43 Van Dam ...
... Prussian victories - had advocated the abolition of substitution.45 42 W.E. van Dam van Isselt , ' Nationale oorlogsvoorbereiding ' , Orgaan van de vereeniging ter beoefening van de krijgswetenschap ( 1911-1912 ) : 5-107 . 43 Van Dam ...
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Orthodox Protestantism Nationalism | 39 |
How High Did the Dutch Fly? Remarks | 59 |
Towards One Nation the Province | 81 |
Now I will write you something | 105 |
German Maids in Prosperous | 133 |
Towards a Cultural Theory of | 159 |
Notes on the contributors | 219 |
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Page 178 - If power were never anything but repressive, if it never did anything but to say no, do you really think one would be brought to obey it? What makes power hold good, what makes it accepted, is simply the fact that it doesn't only weigh on us as a force that says no but that it traverses and produces things, it induces pleasure, forms knowledge, produces discourse.
Page 49 - Arend Lijphart, The Politics of Accommodation: Pluralism and Democracy in the Netherlands, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1968, p. 200. 49) See Arend Lijphart, "Typologies of Democratic Systems," Comparative Political Studies, Vol.
Page 171 - Hobsbawm sees national identities, then, as 'dual phenomena, constructed essentially from above, but which cannot be understood unless also analysed from below, that is in terms of the assumptions, hopes, needs, longings and interests of ordinary people...
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