Introduction to British and American Studies

CHAPTER 1: ORGANIZING CONCEPTS

NATION STATE

1 Roughlyspeaking, essentialism is the view that all people from a specific country, group, or religion
must share a fundamental essence. In other words, they are or must be all the same in important
aspects.

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Figure 1. Number of Nation-states created per five-year period, smoothed hazard rate (Wimmer &
Feinstein, 2010, p. 765).

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Assembled and adapted from Baker (2004, pp. 132-133), “Nation-state” (2015, para 1-4), “Nation
state” (2017, para 7), “Peace of Westphalia” (2017), “Renaissance” (2017, para 1), “Reformation”
(2017, para 1, para 17), “Thirty Years’ War” (2017), and Wimmer & Feinstein (2010, pp. 764-765)

The UK and the US as Nation States

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Adapted from “Nation state” (2017) and “Is the United States” (2016)

Citizenship vs. Nationality

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“Nationality” (2017)

CULTURE

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Raymond Williams (1921 – 1988) was a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. His writings on
politics, culture, the mass media and literature are a significant contribution to the Marxist critique of
culture and the arts.

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Baker (2004, pp. 44-45)

IDENTITY

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National Identity

Baker (2004, p. 131)

Identity Politics

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Adapted from Baker (2004, p. 95) and Baldwin et al. (2014, p. 98)

POWER

Modalities of Power

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Fendler (2010, pp. 43-47)

Michel Foucault.

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-United-States-of-America-a-nation-state-If-yes-since-when

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Nation-state

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_state
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Westphalia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Renaissance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War

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