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Patriotism, the twin sister of History, is ignored […] the children of those countries imbibe the love of country with their mother’s milk, and when they grew older, History and Patriotism took their hands and guided them into paths every true lover of his own land ought to go’. 8 On the evidence of such statements, it comes as no surprise that a number of studies have focused on the
Nineteenth-century music hall was known as the ‘fount of patriotism’. While some observers praised this development, 1 others such as J. A. Hobson condemned the music hall for manipulating working-class opinion in favour of exploitative imperialist policies. Hobson was convinced, by the absence of mass opposition to the Boer War and by the working-class celebrations of
1 The parameters of patriotism In securing and further strengthening the alliance between the Soviet Union and the other states of the socialist community, [the working class and all working people] are promoting the development of the socialist German nation in the GDR . . . The socialist patriotism of the working class and all working people is revolutionary. (Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the GDR, 1978)1 We in Germany – today we say this with pride in our country, selfcritically but also self-confidently patriotic. We want to modernise and we want to
Patriotism and pageantry v 10 v Patriotism and pageantry: representations of Britain’s naval past at the Greenwich Night Pageant, 1933 Emma Hanna Using the grounds of the Royal Naval College as its stage, in June 1933 the Greenwich Night Pageant presented a showcase of English history. Various tableaux, including the christening of Elizabeth I, Drake’s arrival on the Golden Hinde and the funeral of Nelson, were re-enacted by a cast of approximately 2,000 people. Accompanied by sea shanties and Sir Henry Wood’s Fantasia on British Sea Songs, ten two
‘ the truest form of patriotism ’ 9 ‘A new kind of patriotism’? 1 British women in international politics P revious chapters have outlined the diverse contexts in which reformulations of patriotism and citizenship emerged. The feminist movement produced arguments based on ‘separate spheres’ ideologies which held that women’s contribution to the public sphere would bring an increased recognition of humanity in international relations. In contrast, peace workers such as Priscilla Peckover based their arguments on how a full understanding of pacifism would lead
1 Ethnic patriotism The birth of the nation Citizens of Madrid: With the imminent approach of the anniversary of the day that is the most glorious for our people and the most memorable in the annals of the Spanish nation, your constitutional town hall addresses you to announce that the day of the most noble and heroic remembrances, THE SECOND OF MAY, has arrived. On that day, in the name of independence, you made the throne of the most successful soldier of the century tremble beneath him, and, by offering your lives for the sake of your patria, you declared to
. Britain was at war with France. Philanthropy in the aftermath of Howard’s death proclaimed a love of all humankind. But for the ensuing twenty-five years, except for a brief break with the treaty of Amiens in 1802–03, war captured public attention. Philanthropy was in tension if not in conflict with patriotism. Philanthropists could be depicted as unpatriotic. ‘Universal benevolence’ or ‘universal philanthropy’ seemed unrealistic, naive and potentially dangerous to the interests of the nation. Prison reform, the field in which through Howard philanthropy had come to
7 The British origins of the chevalier d’Eon’s patriotism Introduction On 6 June 1771 a humorous article appeared in the Public Advertiser. It described the plan to build a new Magdalen institution near Bedlam in London. One part of the hospital would be reserved for ladies of ‘Rank and Fortune’, but the other part: is to be appropriated for the Reception of our Patriots, whose honest Enthusiasm about Liberty and the Good of their Country, has quite turned their poor Brains; and whose wild Ravings are now become so loud and extravagant as to annoy and disturb
Chapter 9 . Patriarchalism versus patriotism in practice: Patriarcha from the Rye House Plot (1683) to the Glorious Revolution (1688–89) c onsidered rebellious and unfaithful subjects, patriots were under heavy fire in the wake of the rye House Plot, which cost Algernon sidney his life (he was executed in December 1683). Planned for April when charles II and his brother were expected to pass through Newmarket – having been largely destroyed in a fire on 22 March, the races were cancelled prompting the King and the Duke to return to London – the attack never
9 Patriotism, professionalism and the press: the Chicago press and Irish journalists, 1875–1900 1 Gillian O’Brien In the late nineteenth century Irish immigrants in the United States found no shortage of newspapers catering to their interests. For Irish journalists concerned with all things Irish there were plenty of opportunities for employment in cities – such as Philadelphia, Boston, New York and, later, Chicago and San Francisco – that boasted large Irish populations. But there were also Irish journalists who wrote for newspapers that were not defined by an