“This interest in Elissa, as well as a more general identification with the Phoenician past, went well beyond state propaganda: the distance… — Josephine Quinn Love affair 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… — Josephine Quinn Books 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 Patriotism 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… — Josephine Quinn Identity 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… — 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… — Josephine Quinn Books 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… — Josephine Quinn Habits Copy Share Image
