- Summary
- "For centuries conquerors, missionaries, and political movements acting in the name of a single god, nation, or race have sought to remake human identities. Tracing the rise of exclusive forms of identity over the past 1500 years, this innovative book explores both the creation and destruction of exclusive identities, including those based on nationalism and monotheistic religion. Benjamin Lieberman focuses on two critical phases of world history: the age of holy war and conversion, and the age of nationalism and racism. His cases include the rise of Islam, the expansion of medieval Christianity, Spanish conquests in the Americas, Muslim expansion in India, settler expansion in North America, nationalist cleansing in modern Europe and Asia, and Nazi Germany's efforts to build a racial empire. He convincingly shows that efforts to transplant and expand new identities have paradoxically generated long periods of both stability and explosive violence that remade the human landscape around the world"--Publisher's website.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Lieberman, Benjamin, 1962-
- Published
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2013]
- Contents
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Building the realm of Islam
Word and sword in the making of Christian Europe
Spain and Catholic empire in the New World
Islam in India
Settler society and populist imperialism
Nationalizing states and traitor peoples in the shatter zone of empires
The contradictions of racial empire.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Building the realm of Islam -- Word and sword in the making of Christian Europe -- Spain and Catholic empire in the New World -- Islam in India -- Settler society and populist imperialism -- Nationalizing states and traitor peoples in the shatter zone of empires -- The contradictions of racial empire.
