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Genre/Form: | Folk literature Folklore Littérature populaire |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Invention of tradition. (OCoLC)1287887518 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
E J Hobsbawm; T O Ranger |
ISBN: | 9780521269858 0521269857 0521246458 9780521246453 0521437733 9780521437738 |
OCLC Number: | 13112602 |
Description: | vi, 320 pages ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction: Inventing traditions / Eric Hobsbawm -- The invention of tradition : the highland tradition of Scotland / Hugh Trevor-Roper -- From a death to a view : the hunt for the Welsh past in the romantic period / Prys Morgan -- The context, performance and meaning of ritual : the British monarchy and the 'invention of tradition', c. 1820-1977 / David Cannadine -- Representing authority in Victorian India / Bernard S. Cohn -- The invention of tradition in colonial Africa / Terence Ranger -- Mass-producing traditions : Europe, 1870-1914 / Eric Hobsbawm. |
Series Title: | Past and present publications. |
Other Titles: | Tradition |
Responsibility: | edited by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger. |
Abstract:
Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient 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 and addresses the complex interaction of past and present in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism.
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'The most stimulating history book which has come my way this year ...'. History Today
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