Keely Stauter Halsted: 1 book
The Nation in the Village
The Genesis of Peasant National Identity in Austrian Poland, 1848–1914
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
How do peasants come to think of themselves as members of a nation? The widely accepted argument is that national sentiment originates among intellectuals or urban middle classes, then "trickles down" to the working class and peasants. Keely Stauter-Halsted argues that such models overlook the independent...
