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The Invention of tradition / edited by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger.

Contributor(s): Series: Canto classicsManufacturer: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997Description: vi, 320 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780521437738 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.372 HOB-
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Introduction: inventing traditions; 2. The invention of tradition: the Highland tradition of Scotland; 3. From a death to a view: the hunt for the Welsh past in the Romantic period; 4. The context, performance and meaning of ritual: the British Monarchy and the invention of tradition, c.1820-1977; 5. Representing authority of tradition in Victorian India; 6. The invention of tradition in Colonial Africa; 7. Mass-producing traditions: Europe, 1870-1914.
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BOOKs NLS Library Compactors 303.372 HOB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 14864
BOOKs NLS 303.372 HOB-2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 15674

Originally published: 1983.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: inventing traditions;
2. The invention of tradition: the Highland tradition of Scotland;
3. From a death to a view: the hunt for the Welsh past in the Romantic period;
4. The context, performance and meaning of ritual: the British Monarchy and the invention of tradition, c.1820-1977;
5. Representing authority of tradition in Victorian India;
6. The invention of tradition in Colonial Africa;
7. Mass-producing traditions: Europe, 1870-1914.