The short-lived rebellion that broke out on the island of Samos in May 1908 is often characterized as the project of Greek nationalists aiming to unify the island with the Kingdom of Greece. Since ...1834, Samos had been an autonomous principality within the Ottoman Empire, ruled by a Christian prince appointed by the sultan. While nationalist agitation played an important role in the 1908 uprising, the actual course of events was characterized by a complex interaction among Greek nationalists, those Samiotes who wanted to maintain the autonomous principality, and the agents of the imperial government. The uprising ultimately seems to have been a case of local nationalists exploiting a constitutional crisis to further their aim of uniting the island with Greece.
...the history of the Russian Civil War itself provides an interesting case of an anarchist movement that built a highly effective military and political organization in the Ukraine: the ...Makhnovshchina, a movement organized and led by the Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno (1889-1935). Bakunin and Kropotkin also argued that private property, as the foundation of all coercive structures of power, needed to be eliminated. in their theories, authoritative institutions, especially the state, exist solely to protect the owners of capital. ...the abolition of private ownership of capital would eliminate the very raison d'etre of the state and other forms of authority. Crucially, neither Bakunin nor Kropotkin was very clear about what an anarchist socioeconomic system would actually look like or how it might be constructed. indeed, they seemed to believe that people freed from the tyranny of authority and the burdens of private property would spontaneously cooperate and build a new order. The Military Revolutionary Council operated within a clearly anarcho- Communist framework and made no room, for instance, for the liberties of landlords or factory owners who might have wanted to maintain ownership of their private property.
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This essay is the introduction to the special issue of Genealogy, “For God and Country: Essays on Nationalism and Religion.” It poses the question of what relationship, if any, nationalism has to ...religion, and then briefly reviews the history and current state of the scholarship on the topic. This essay then introduces the seven essays making up the special edition. It concludes by observing that, overall, the collection suggests that while religion and nationalism are more closely related than previously held, they nevertheless remain two distinct phenomena.
Relying heavily on the work of Edward Shils, this paper argues that a robust sense of national identity among the peoples of East Central Europe played a crucial role in the revolutions of 1989 and ...the subsequent emergence of civil society in the region's countries.
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Max Weber published numerous newspaper articles on the political situation in Germany during the chaotic days between the November Armistice and his untimely death in June 1920. His article, “Zum ...Thema der ,Kriegsschuld‘” (reproduced in the Gesammelte Politische Schriften, among other places) published in the edition of the Frankfurter Zeitung on 17 January 1919, has not, to the best of my knowledge, been translated in its entirety into English until now. The article is important because it introduces a number of themes to which Weber would return over the course of the next several months, as well as certain issues about which he seems to have lost interest.
This chapter will explore Edward Shils’ original and highly nuanced treatment of the concepts of ‘nationality’, ‘nationalism’, and ‘civil society’. In Shils’ framework, these concepts are closely ...interrelated, and the ways in which they interact are important for understanding Shils’ broader sociological project. As Athena Leoussi has perceptively pointed out: ‘In Shils’ writings on the nation and nationalism we find some of the most central themes of his whole oeuvre: tradition, civility, centre-periphery, charisma, liberal-democracy’ (Leoussi, 2013: 1960).
In the process of elaborating Shils’ theoretical associations of nationality, nationalism, and civil society, I will try to understand what sociological mechanisms
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