Nationalism in the New Worlds: The Americas and the Atlantic Group

FAIN: RZ-50087-03

Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN 37203-2416)
Don Harrison Doyle (Project Director: September 2002 to April 2005)

A conference and resulting book of essays on the subject of nationalism in the Americas. (18 months)

We propose a conference and book of essays on "Nationalism in the New World: The Americas and the Atlantic World" to bring scholars from North America, Latin America, and elsewhere together, to enlarge and reinvigorate the current debate on the origin and meaning of nationalism. Few forces have shaped the modern world more than nationalism and few are more important to our world today. Scholarship on nationalism has flourished in recent years but with far too little attention paid to the new nations that emerged in the Americas, those "Creole pioneers" that first showed the world what modern nation states would look like. Our conference will bring scholars together across national and disciplinary boundaries to explore the exchange of ideas, models, and leaders in the age of nationalism and bring fresh thinking to our understanding of nationalism's origin and meaning. A book of essays in English and Spanish-Portuguese editions will broadcast the results of our conference to a large audience and help set the course for future discussion.

Associated Products

H-Nationalism (Web Resource)
Title: H-Nationalism
Author: H-Net Editors at https://www.h-net.org/people/editors.php?list_id=391
Abstract: H-Nationalism is a forum for conversation across academic and national frontiers open to all those with an interest in nationalism wherever and whenever it exists. H-Nationalism will encompass matters involving theory, methodology, history, and case studies of nationalism, nation formation, national identity, and related topics.
Year: 1995
Primary URL: http://www.h-net.org/~national/
Primary URL Description: Hosted by H-Net
Secondary URL: N/A

Association for Research on Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Americas (ARENA) (Web Resource)
Title: Association for Research on Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Americas (ARENA)
Author: Don Doyle
Abstract: ARENA is a new international organization of scholars engaged in exchange and collaboration across national and academic boundaries that grew out of a series of international conferences on nationalism in the Americas and the Atlantic world.
Year: 2003
Primary URL: http://artsandsciences.sc.edu/arena/

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