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When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth Century Poland
When Nationalism Began to Hate Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth Century Poland Author:Brian Porter With this book, Porter offers readers a new explanation for the emergence of xenophobic, authoritarian nationalism in Europe. Focusing on 19th-century Poland, he traces the transformation of revolutionary patriotism into a violent anti-Semitic ideology. Instead of deterministically attributing this charge to the "forces of modernization," Porter... more » argues that the language of hatred and discipline was central to the way "modernity" itself was perceived--or perhaps "imagined"--by fin-de-siecle intellectuals.« less