Sentence examples for nation formation from inspiring English sources

Is a similar process of nation formation taking place in Iraq and Syria today?

His latest book is Italy's margins: social exclusion and nation formation since 1861 forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2014.

Against the backdrop of ever-increasing nationalist violence during the last decade of the twentieth century, this book challenges standard analyses of nation formation by elaborating on the nation s dream-like hold over the modern social imagination.

Latin American Humanities II, offered in the spring, runs from the 1880s to today and covers modern Latin American cultures and literatures after the foundational period of nation formation.

It's no half-assed attempted at nation formation either – Liberland already has a constitution, flag, coat of arms, official website, Facebook page and a motto: "To live and let live".

John Bull was the creation of the early-18th-century Scots physician and man of letters, John Arbuthnot; the lyrics of the national song "Rule, Britannia" were written around 1740 by the Scots poet James Thomson; and the great historical novel of English nation formation, which narrates the late 12th-century reconciliation of conquering Norman and estranged Saxon, was Walter Scott's Ivanhoe.

In the process of state formation and nation building, states organize the production, organization and distribution of social knowledge to construct national collective memory.

But experts liken India to a quasi-federation or a unitary state with subsidiary federal features, saying that the adoption of unitary features was to focus on the challenges of state formation and nation building.

Focusing on the period since 1945 and especially on the last twenty years, the book outlines the main factors to have shaped these diverse nations, including problems of state formation and ruling elite legitimacy, the role of oil and energy, the challenges of economic geography, the wider international political setting and its impacts, and constraints to economic reform.

262 p. Making a new nation : the formation of Slovenia / edited by Danica Fink-Hafner and John R. Robbins.

In daring to touch and care for the bodies of poor refugees, soldiers and parturient mothers, these women fostered the emotional trust that undergirded a sense of belonging to the nation in formation.