Narratives, Nations, and Other World Products in the Making o... - 9781350441019

Narratives, Nations, and Other World Products in the Making of Global HistoryAuthor(s): Jeremy Adelman, Andreas Eckert\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350441019, 978-1350441019\nSynopsis\nExplaining how nations and narratives have been the products of transnational, cross-border forces of migration and cultural exchange, this open access volume presents a global history of the basic ideas that govern our understanding of the modern world and highlight the power of narratives in world history.\n\nFrom the Enlightenment forward, the nation and other global concepts have been conjured and repurposed to manage and make sense of what we now call globalisation. The authors in this volume show how social categories such as empire, race and labour were the centerpiece subjects of collective narratives. \n\nFor the past two centuries, the practices of shared storytelling aimed to make sense of how groups like.