{"product_id":"sinews-of-the-nation-constructing-irish-and-zionist-bonds-in-the-united-states-hardback-9780745662640","title":"Sinews of the Nation; Constructing Irish and Zionist Bonds in the United States (Hardback) 9780745662640","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSinews of the Nation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eConstructing Irish and Zionist Bonds in the United States\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDan Lainer-Vos (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745662640, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 November 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Dan Lainer-Vos brings insight and new knowledge to one of the important  ways nationalism and nation-building remain vital amid the global  connections of today's world. Transnational fundraising supports  national projects and sustains national ties. The Zionist and Irish  examples are rich and informative in themselves and also the basis for  advancing knowledge of broad significance.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCraig Calhoun, London School of Economics and Political Science\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A unique take on the voluminous literature on nationalism and national  identity. Lainer-Vos locates nation-building in diaspora communities  that send money home to their national states that are engaged in highly  contentious nationalist struggles. The idea of looking at the strength  of national identity in the homeland and the diaspora through the lens  of contributions to bond drives is original and compelling. Lainer-Vos  unites economic sociology and political sociology in a novel way. The  choice of the two cases, Ireland and Israel, is apt. Sinews of the  Nation, impeccably researched and well written, injects new life into a  well trodden field.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMabel Berezin, Cornell University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"How are nations built? Drawing from Irish and Zionist experiences, Dan Lainer-Vos' \u003ci\u003eSinews of the Nation \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates  the crucial role of monetary transactions in forging national  movements. With style, compelling arguments, and fascinating evidence,  Lainer-Vos sets up a novel research agenda. A welcome contribution to  political and economic sociology.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eViviana A. Zelizer, Princeton University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFundraising may not seem like an obvious lens through which to examine  the  process of nation-building, but in this highly original book  Lainer-Vos shows  that fundraising mechanisms - ranging from complex  transnational gift-giving  systems to sophisticated national bonds - are  organizational tools that can be  used to bind dispersed groups to the  nation. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSinews of the Nation\u003c\/i\u003e treats nation-building as a practical  organizational accomplishment and examines  how the Irish republicans  and the Zionist movement secured financial support in  the United States  during the first half of the twentieth century. Comparing the  Irish  and Jewish experiences, whose trajectories of homeland-diaspora  relations  were very different, provides a unique perspective for  examining how national  movements use economic transactions to attach  disparate groups to the national  project. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e By focusing on fundraising, Lainer-Vos challenges the common view  of  nation-building as only a matter of forging communities by imagining  away  internal differences: he shows that nation-building also involves  organizing  relationships so as to allow heterogeneous groups to  maintain their difference  and yet contribute to the national cause.  Nation-building is about much more  than creating unifying symbols: it  is also about creating mechanisms that bind  heterogeneous groups to the  nation despite and through their  differences.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Organization of National Attachments 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Moneymaking and Nation Building 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Gifting the Nation 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 National Gift Giving in Crises 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Making National Bonds: Floating the Irish and Israeli Loans in the United States 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Making and Unmaking National Attachments: The Failure of the Irish Bond and the Success of the Israel Bond 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Heterogeneity, Indeterminacy, and the Construction of National Interests 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions: Nation Building as an Organizational Accomplishment 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 207\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407328702744,"sku":"9780745662640","price":45.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745662640.jpg?v=1784162515","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sinews-of-the-nation-constructing-irish-and-zionist-bonds-in-the-united-states-hardback-9780745662640","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}