TY - BOOK AU - Bellamy, Alex J. AB - This volume assesses the formation of Croatian national identity in the 1990s. It develops a novel framework calling into question both primordial and modernist approaches to nationalism and national identity before applying that framework to Croatia. In doing so it provides a new way of thinking about how national identity is formed and why it is so important. An explanation is given of how Croatian national identity was formed in the abstract, via a historical narrative that traces centuries of yearning for a national state. The book shows how the government, opposition parties, dissident intellectuals and diaspora groups offered alternative accounts of this narrative in order to legitimise contemporary political programmes based on different visions of national identity. It then looks at how these debates were manifested in social activities as diverse as football and religion, economics and language. This volume marks an important contribution to both the way we study nationalism and national identity, and our understanding of post-Yugoslav politics and society. DO - 10.7228/manchester/9780719065026.001.0001 ID - OAPEN ID: 341383 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 60637038 ID - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/35011 KW - nationalism KW - croatia KW - balkans KW - Croats KW - Istria KW - Serbs KW - Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/35011/1/341383.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/35011/1/341383.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/35011/1/341383.pdf LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35359 PB - Manchester University Press PY - 2003 SN - 9780719065026 TI - The formation of Croatian national identity: A centuries-old dream?null ER -