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" They search backwards over the hills and valleys of historical events to trace the inexorable route of a given (or "chosen") population to the destiny of their national enlightenment and liberation. They transform history into national history, legitimizing... "
Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia ... - Page 17
by Anastasia N. Karakasidou - 2009 - 358 pages
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When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans: A Study of Identity in Pre ...

John V. A. Fine - History - 2010 - 669 pages
...consciousness' through the centuries." Calling such scholars authors of "looking-glass histories," she writes, "They search backwards over the hills and valleys...descent are constructed, refined, and lengthened, and ancestors of a 'nation' become a vehicle for majority-group legitimation. . . . Yet perhaps we are...
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