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The article discusses Geneviève Zubrzycki's book, "Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland's Jewish Revival," which explores the unexpected engagement of non-Jewish Poles in Jewish culture and heritage. Zubrzycki examines various cultural and artistic performances, museum exhibitions, and commemorative practices to understand the motivations behind this interest. She argues that this "Jewish turn" serves as a symbol for cultivating a civic nationalism and secular identity in Poland, challenging the assumption that Polishness is synonymous with Catholicism. However, the article acknowledges that the current political climate in Poland, with its focus on historical revisionism and Holocaust distortion, poses a risk to this vision of a pluralistic national identity. [Extracted from the article]

In this deeply engaging book, J. Kehaulani Kauanui unpacks paradoxes inherent in past and contemporary assertions of Hawaiian sovereignty. According to Kauanui, in the process of forming itself as an independent nation, before U.S. colonization, the Hawaiian Kingdom modeled itself after Western nations and enacted its own "colonial biopolitics" in relation to Hawaiians. By discussing diverse groups of people - Christian-identified kingdom nationalists, those in support of federal recognition, and people like herself who refuse these two state-centered options for Hawaiian sovereignty - Kauanui succeeds in showing that the Hawaiian's struggle is not simply between the monolithic "colonized" and the colonizer (the US settler state). [Extracted from the article]

Abstract: A review of David Edgerton's The Rise and Fall of the British Nation [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The two handsome volumes that comprise the I Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe i (ERNiE) are the immediate result of a Spinoza Premium research grant made by the Dutch Research Council to the historian and comparative literary scholar Joep Leersen in 2008. There are many good books on individual nations and nationalisms but very few on the vital international links between them.[1] ERNiE therefore offers numerous leads for scholars to take on this task. Volume 2 is devoted to what Leerssen describes as ERNiE's "core", its thematic section comprised of entries on each individual "cultural community". [Extracted from the article]

Individual chapters examine Switzerland, former Yugoslavia, Egypt, Tanzania, Singapore, New Zealand, Brazil and the United States. In recent years, the rapid rise of populism and right-wing nationalism globally has threatened civic and inclusive forms of nationalism. Against this backdrop, this collection edited by Jasper M. Trautsch and contributed by nationalism experts from diverse disciplines is timely and provides fruitful comparisons of historical practices of civic or quasi-civic nationalism in eight present-day or past states worldwide. [Extracted from the article]

In his latest book Christian Karner, professor of sociology at the University of Lincoln, takes a look at nationalism in Austria from the late eighteenth century to the present. For historians of nationalism, Austria is a very interesting case because of the transformation that started in the interwar period and was intensified after World War II, as most citizens of the re-established Republic of Austria stopped identifying as Germans and started identifying as Austrians. [Extracted from the article]

Breuilly's "Modernism and writing the history of nationalism" is a concise and insightful review of the development of modernism as a theoretical approach to nations and nationalism. Again, what appears to be investigated is not the history of nationalism I per se i but the historicity of nationalism and to what extent it is regarded as significant in the study of nationalism. This seems to suggest that since both history writing in general and nationalism are modern, an examination of the development of the modernist paradigm naturally constitutes an investigation of the history of nationalism. [Extracted from the article]

The I fil rouge i followed by the authors throughout the book is the difficult relation between the elites, the Yugoslav (never solved) "national question", and nationalism. The volume combines historical and archival sources with the most relevant academic production in the field of nationalism studies, and it investigates rise and fall of Tito's Yugoslavia focusing on the relationship between nationalism and the elites. On the other hand, however, the book's large scope and methodological richness at times complicate the exploration, making some chapters - such as Chapter 7, "very dense" especially for the readers unfamiliar with the topics and case study selected. [Extracted from the article]

I Debating Nationalism i provides a succinct and readable overview of recent developments within the field of nationalism studies. Chapters 2 until 5 provide a brief historical overview, while exploring respectively the origins of nationalism, the spread of nationalism in Europe, decolonization and the nation-building process. [Extracted from the article]

The relationships between religion and nationalism until recently have been neglected in Western scholarship because of the secularist biases of the academy. A fundamental issue is whether we should see nationalism as a form of "surrogate religion" in modernity and what this means if nationalism coalesces with existing religious traditions and institutions. As the editors recognise in their conclusion, the contributors operate with different conceptions of religion and (cultural) nationalism, with the result the book produces more questions than answers. [Extracted from the article]

A review of the book "Cuauhtémoc's Bones: Forging National Identity in Modern Mexico," by Paul Gillingham is presented.

The article reviews the book "Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption and Civil Society in Modern Britain," by Frank Trentmann.

The article reviews the book "The Rise of Nationalism in Venezuela" by Jonathan Eastwood.

The article reviews the book "Nature and National Identity After Communism: Globalizing the Ethnoscape," by Katrina Z.S. Schwartz.

The article reviews the book "The Arab Jews: A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity," by Yehouda Shenhav.