General Information

Language

English.

Published

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Physical Description

vi, 322 p. ; 22 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Hobsbawm, E. J. (Eric J.), 1917-2012.

Ranger, T. O.

Subjects

Subject

Manners and customs > Origin.

Rites and ceremonies > Origin.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

edited by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger.

Content

Eric Hobsbawm: Introdiction: inventing traditions -- Hugh Trevor-Roper: The invention of tradition: the Highland tradition of Scotland -- Prys Morgan: From a death to a view: the hunt for the Welsh past in the Romantic period -- David Cannadine: The context, performance and meaning of ritual: the British Monarchy and the "invention of tradition", c. 1820-1977 -- Bernard S. Cohn: Representing authority in Victorian India -- Terence Ranger: The invention of tradition in colonial Africa -- Eric Hobsbawm: Mass-producing traditions: Europe, 1870-1914.

Related Work

Tradition.

ISBN

0521437733

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	390 HOB		OSA Repository	Donation of School of Public Policy.

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