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The Invention of Tradition

By Terence Ranger (Editor), Eric Hobsbawm (Editor)

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| Paperback | 9780521437738

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Book Description

Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention - the creation of Welsh and Scottish 'national culture'; the elabContinue

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One of Arnold Toynbee’s Laws was that, in any civilisation, mannered imitation of the past was a Bad Thing: he chose the Poles’ decision to reconstruct the Old City of Warsaw after 1945 as an instance, and would have much preferred to see them raze t ... (read full critics)

lrb published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

The Invention of Tradition

Many practices which are considered traditional are in fact quite recent inventions, often deliberately constructed to serve particular ideological ends. The Invention of Tradition is a collection of articles on the construction of symbolic and cerem ... (read full critics)

dannyreviews published on Tue, 24 Aug 2010