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The Formation of Croatian National Identity: A Centuries-Old Dream? (Europe in Change)

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The Formation of Croatian National Identity: A Centuries-Old Dream? (Europe in Change)

The Formation of Croatian National Identity: A Centuries-Old Dream? (Europe in Change) by Alex J. Bellamy
English | Apr. 3, 2004 | ISBN: 071906502X | 222 Pages | PDF | 1 MB

This volume assesses the formation of Croatian national identity in the 1990s. It develops a novel framework that calls both primordialist and modernist approaches to nationalism and national identity into question before applying that framework to Croatia. In doing so it not only provides a new way of thinking about how national identity is formed and why it is so important, it also closely examines 1990s Croatia in a unique way.
What did it mean to be Croatian in the 1990s? As the Republic of Croatia enters its second decade as an independent state, with a new president and a new government for the first time, this book asks whether sentiments of Croatian national identity have changed and, if so, how and why. General theories of nations and nationalism are unhelpful when it comes to addressing particular cases, principally because very few cases adhere to the accounts they offer. I do not intend to rehearse these arguments here or to explore the relative merits of different theories with regards to Croatia.