“Much recent scholarship has emphasized that nations are not a “natural” form of social organization, but a constructed one; in the words of Caspar Hirschi, they are “not formed by ‘objective’ criteria like common territory, language, habits, ancestry, fate, etc.… — Josephine Quinn Copy Share Image
“This interest in Elissa, as well as a more general identification with the Phoenician past, went well beyond state propaganda: the distance between Rome… — Josephine Quinn Copy Share Image
“A lack of evidence for collective identity is not evidence for its absence, especially when we have no surviving Phoenician literature and relatively little… — Josephine Quinn Copy Share Image
“As Ernest Gellner put it, “Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness: it invents nations where they do not exist”.7” — Josephine Quinn Copy Share Image
“Whatever the contingent reasons in this particular colonial context for their specific self-conceptions, they remind us of the dangers of stamping ethnic labels on… — Josephine Quinn Copy Share Image
“Mine is not, however, so much an argument from silence as an argument for silence: a silence that can open up other spaces of… — Josephine Quinn Copy Share Image
“This interpretation of the Phoenicians as a people has also informed recent literature on nationalism. One of most influential recent studies of communal identity… — Josephine Quinn Copy Share Image
“Much recent scholarship has emphasized that nations are not a “natural” form of social organization, but a constructed one; in the words of Caspar… — Josephine Quinn Copy Share Image
