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National Identity and State Formation in Africa

Castells, Manuel and Bernard Lategan, B. (Eds.). 2021. National Identity and State Formation in Africa. Polity Press. https://politybooks.co...

Manuel Castells Manuel Castells

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The State as Master: Gender, State Formation and Commercialisation in Urban Sweden, 1650–1780

Ågren, Maria. 2017. The State as Master: Gender, State Formation and Commercialisation in Urban Sweden, 1650–1780. Manchester: Manchester Un...

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Comparative territorial politics in Sub-Saharan Africa

Erk, Jan. 2018. Comparative territorial politics in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Handbook of Territorial Politics (pp. 354–370). Edward Elgar Publ...

Jan Erk Jan Erk

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National Identities and State Formation

National identity is the set of inter-related cultural attributes that provides meaning and self-recognition to a collective of humans who define themselves as a national community.

Manuel Castells Manuel Castells
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