The Nation, Psychology, and International Politics, 1870–1919

This volume offers a new cultural and political history of the idea of the nation. Situating the history of international politics and the idea of the nation in the history of psychology, it reveals the popularity and political importance of a transnational discourse of the psychology of nations that had taken shape in the previous half-century. The Nation, Psychology and International Politics is a new cultural and political story of the idea of the nation. It begins with the story of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, and travels back in time to consider the significance of the rise of scientific psychology after 1870. It situates the history of international politics and the idea of the nation in the history of psychology, and reveals, for the first time, the lingering popularity and political importance of a transnational discourse of the psychology of nations that had taken shape in the previous half-century Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-7 Science and the New National World Order, 1919....Pages 8-36 The Principle of Nationality, 1914–1919....Pages 37-60 Psychology, Race, and the Nation Question, 1870–1914....Pages 61-83 The Gendered Self and Political Nations, 1870–1914....Pages 84-105 Gender and the Apogee of Nationalism, 1914–1919....Pages 106-131 Epilogue, 1919-....Pages 132-149 Back Matter....Pages 150-216 Tracing the emergence of 'Religious Internationals' as a distinctive new phenomenon in world history, this book transforms our understanding of the role of religion in our modern world. Through in-depth studies comparing the experiences of Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews and Muslims, leading experts shed new light on 'global civil society'.