The nation, psychology, and international politics, 1870-1919

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Label

The nation, psychology, and international politics, 1870-1919

Statement of responsibility

Glenda Sluga

Creator

• Sluga, Glenda, 1962-

Subject

• Nationalism -- History -- 20th century
• Nationalism -- Psychological aspects
• Nationalities, Principle of

Language

eng

Summary

This volume offers a new cultural and political history of the idea of the nation. Situating the history of international politics and the idea of the nation in the history of psychology, it reveals the popularity and political importance of a transnational discourse of the psychology of nations that had taken shape in the previous half-century.

Member of

• Palgrave Macmillan transnational history series

Cataloging source

IT-FiEUI

Dewey number

• 320.1019
• 909.82-P

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Palgrave Macmillan transnational history series

Summary expansion

The Nation, Psychology and International Politics is a new cultural and political story of the idea of the nation. It begins with the story of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, and travels back in time to consider the significance of the rise of scientific psychology after 1870. It situates the history of international politics and the idea of the nation in the history of psychology, and reveals, for the first time, the lingering popularity and political importance of a transnational discourse of the psychology of nations that had taken shape in the previous half-century