The Nation in the World, and the World in the Nation
Abstract
This thesis explores issues of nationalism and Euro-centrism in history writing at
the start of the Cold War by examining, as case studies, national and world history
textbooks of three emergent nation-states in the mid-1950s: Egypt, China, and South
Korea. Most broadly, it shows the ways in which textual discourses about the nation
and Europe were informed by transnational ideas and political movements, and in turn,
the centrality of national identity in defining such global discourses. It adopts
a comparative, transnational approach.
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Honors thesisDepartment
HistorySubject
history education, decolonization, Cold War discourses, nationalism, Eurocentrism,
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Jeong, Janice (2013). The Nation in the World, and the World in the Nation. Honors thesis, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/7985.Collections
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