/483/ Reading Club: Why Invent Traditions?
On the mass-production of loyalty.
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The second reading in this block on Inter/Nationalism in the 21st Century is The Invention of Tradition (eds. Eric Hobsbawm & Terrence Ranger, 1983), specifically Hobsbawm's chapter "Mass-Producing Traditions: Europe 1870-1914".
How much did ordinary people buy into invented national traditions?
Why did industrialisation allow for mass-producing…
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