Masculinity and Nationhood, 1830–1910

Abstract

Broun briefly discusses the debate between the perennialists and modernists in regard to the formation of the nation (pp. 280-282). Being a critical historian sensitive to the continuity and disruption as experienced at that time, he does not come down to the side of the perennialists but goes for the longue dureé approach by Anthony Smith. 'If more emphasis is placed on the up-to-date critical insights into sources that have been developed by medievalists, then there is a real chance that hitherto unexpected vistas will be revealed through engaging with the aspirations and assumptions of our forbears ' (p. 282). This appears to echo the spirit behind the investigation of everyday nationhoodtrying to capture the lived experiences and reality of a nation. Perhaps medievalists are as radical as those favour the bottom-up approach to the study of the social. ATSUKO ICHIJO

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