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Simply put, the modern Slovenian nation began as a cultural project in the age of Enlightenment. Its basic axis has been Standard Slovenian as one of Slavic languages. The book describes from where the speakers of the initial common Slavic language arrived at our place, as well as where and when Slavs came into being. Throughout the history of long ages the author observes the relationship between the speakers of the language, political power, and particularly the Church as an institution with a universal ideology which as such does not in any way encourage local identity. The book also recalls the millennial roots of Slovenian identity whose present state is not a logical consequence of the past, much less the beginning of self-evident future. The author knows that the final image of the past is always created by the reader themself, therefore using challenging illustrations he constantly encourages them to think. The author also does not expect the reader to agree with him, but would like them to find some causal connections of their own and thus recover the lost memory of who they are. Poenostavljeno lahko rečemo, da se je moderni slovenski narod začel kot kulturni projekt Žige Zoisa. Osnovna os je knjižna slovenščina kot eden od slovanskih jezikov. Knjiga opisuje, od kod so govorci slovanskega jezika v naš prostor prišli, kje in kdaj so nastali Slovani. Skozi zgodovino dolgih dob nato opazuje razmerje med govorci jezika, politično oblastjo ter še zlasti Cerkvijo kot institucijo z univerzalno ideologijo, ki kot taka nikakor ne spodbuja lokalnih identitet. Hkrati knjiga opozarja na tisočletne korenine slovenstva, pri čemer pa njegovo sedanje stanje ni samoumeven nasledek preteklosti, še manj nastavek samoumevne prihodnosti. Avtor se zaveda, da si končno podobo preteklosti vedno ustvari bralec sam. Zato ga nenehno spodbuja k lastnemu razmišljanju z izzivalnimi ilustracijami. Avtor ne pričakuje strinjanja, želi pa si, da bi bralci sami našli nekatere vzročne povezave in si povrnili izgubljeni spomin.

Slovenia --- History --- ethnogenesis --- migration of peoples --- Prehistory --- Slavs --- Slovenes --- etnogeneza --- prazgodovina --- preseljevanje ljudstev --- Slovani --- Slovenci

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Before there was such a thing as "California," there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it. Beginning with the ethnogenesis of California Indians, We Are the Land recounts the centrality of the Native presence from before European colonization through statehood-paying particularly close attention to the persistence and activism of California Indians in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The book deftly contextualizes the first encounters with Europeans, Spanish missions, Mexican secularization, the devastation of the Gold Rush and statehood, genocide, efforts to reclaim land, and the organization and activism for sovereignty that built today's casino economy. A text designed to fill the glaring need for an accessible overview of California Indian history, We Are the Land will be a core resource in a variety of classroom settings, as well as for casual readers and policymakers interested in a history that centers the native experience.

Indians of North America --- Indian reservations --- History. --- 20th century activism. --- Alcatraz. --- California. --- Casino economy. --- Chumash Rebellion. --- Europeans. --- Gold Rush. --- Historical survey. --- Indian. --- Ishi. --- Native American. --- Spanish Missions. --- Statehood. --- culture. --- devastation. --- erased. --- ethnogenesis. --- geology. --- history. --- indigenous. --- labor. --- people. --- regional. --- resistance. --- rewriting.

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This innovative cultural history examines wide-ranging issues of religion, politics, and identity through an analysis of the American Indian Ghost Dance movement and its significance for two little-studied tribes: the Shoshones and Bannocks. The Ghost Dance has become a metaphor for the death of American Indian culture, but as Gregory Smoak argues, it was not the desperate fantasy of a dying people but a powerful expression of a racialized "Indianness." While the Ghost Dance did appeal to supernatural forces to restore power to native peoples, on another level it became a vehicle for the expression of meaningful social identities that crossed ethnic, tribal, and historical boundaries. Looking closely at the Ghost Dances of 1870 and 1890, Smoak constructs a far-reaching, new argument about the formation of ethnic and racial identity among American Indians. He examines the origins of Shoshone and Bannock ethnicity, follows these peoples through a period of declining autonomy vis-a-vis the United States government, and finally puts their experience and the Ghost Dances within the larger context of identity formation and emerging nationalism which marked United States history in the nineteenth century.

Bannock Indians --- Shoshoni Indians --- Ghost dance --- Indians of North America --- Numic Indians --- Shoshone Indians --- Snake Indians --- Shoshonean Indians --- Indian dance --- Nativistic movements --- Ethnic identity. --- Religion. --- Rites and ceremonies. --- History --- 19th century american history. --- 19th century native american history. --- american indian ghost dance movement. --- american indians. --- bannocks. --- cultural studies. --- ethnogenesis. --- ghost dance. --- history. --- identity. --- indigenous cultures. --- indigenous peoples. --- missionary. --- nationalism. --- native american culture. --- native americans. --- native peoples. --- new religion. --- politics. --- prophets. --- race in america. --- religion. --- reservation life. --- shamans. --- shoshones. --- social identity. --- spiritual. --- supernatural forces. --- united states government. --- united states of america.

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Many historical processes are dynamic. Populations grow and decline. Empires expand and collapse. Religions spread and wither. Natural scientists have made great strides in understanding dynamical processes in the physical and biological worlds using a synthetic approach that combines mathematical modeling with statistical analyses. Taking up the problem of territorial dynamics--why some polities at certain times expand and at other times contract--this book shows that a similar research program can advance our understanding of dynamical processes in history. Peter Turchin develops hypotheses from a wide range of social, political, economic, and demographic factors: geopolitics, factors affecting collective solidarity, dynamics of ethnic assimilation/religious conversion, and the interaction between population dynamics and sociopolitical stability. He then translates these into a spectrum of mathematical models, investigates the dynamics predicted by the models, and contrasts model predictions with empirical patterns. Turchin's highly instructive empirical tests demonstrate that certain models predict empirical patterns with a very high degree of accuracy. For instance, one model accounts for the recurrent waves of state breakdown in medieval and early modern Europe. And historical data confirm that ethno-nationalist solidarity produces an aggressively expansive state under certain conditions (such as in locations where imperial frontiers coincide with religious divides). The strength of Turchin's results suggests that the synthetic approach he advocates can significantly improve our understanding of historical dynamics.

Historiometry. --- History --- Historical models --- Historiometry --- Historiometrics --- Biography --- Psychohistory --- Mathematical models. --- Methodology --- Psychological aspects --- Mathematical models --- Statistical methods --- Demography --- Asia Minor. --- Black Death. --- English Revolution. --- Europe. --- France. --- Russia. --- agrarian polities. --- asabiya. --- autocatalytic model. --- boom–bust dynamics. --- boundless growth. --- class structure. --- cliodynamics. --- collective solidarity. --- collectivism. --- commoners. --- conflict legitimacy dynamics. --- cultural regions. --- demographic-fiscal model. --- demographic-structural theory. --- dynamical processes. --- elites. --- empires. --- endogenous systems. --- equilibrium. --- ethnic assimilation. --- ethnic identity. --- ethnies. --- ethnogenesis. --- ethnokinetic model. --- ethnokinetics. --- frontier index. --- frontiers. --- geopolitics. --- group dynamics. --- group solidarity. --- hierarchical modeling. --- historical dynamics. --- historical sociology. --- imperial boundaries. --- individualism. --- internal warfare. --- linguistic assimilation. --- marchland position. --- mathematical modeling. --- mathematical models. --- mathematical theory. --- metaethnic fault lines. --- metaethnic frontier theory. --- metaethnic frontiers. --- metaethnie. --- metastable dynamics. --- noninteractive model. --- nonlinear dynamics. --- political cycles. --- political instability. --- polity dynamics. --- population density. --- population dynamics. --- population numbers. --- population oscillations. --- primary data. --- process order. --- quantitative theories. --- religious conversion. --- secondary data. --- secular cycles. --- secular oscillations. --- social capital. --- socioeconomic dynamics. --- sociopolitical stability. --- state breakdown. --- sustained oscillations. --- territorial dynamics. --- threshold model. --- vulnerability.