Drawing on diverse cultural forms, and ranging across disciplinary boundaries, Nation States maps the contested cultural terrain of Irish nationalism from the Act of Union of 1800 to the present. In looking at Irish nationalism as a site of struggle, Mays examines both the myriad ways in which the nation fashions itself as the a priori ground of identity, and those processes through which nationalism engenders an ostensibly unique national identity corresponding to one and only one nation-state, the place where we always have been, and can only ever be, 'at home.'
- ISBN10 073915804X
- ISBN13 9780739158043
- Publish Date 16 February 2007 (first published 1 January 2007)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Lexington Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 240
- Language English