Description

This hardcover 531 page book by Paul Robert Magocsi is a memoir introducing readers to the major events, individuals, and organizations of the decades long Carpatho-Rusyn movement. How does nationalism work? How do certain groups of people become nationalities? What concrete mechanisms have been adopted by governments and/or intellectual leaders to transform often disparate individuals into groups who become conscious of their common identity and distinctiveness from others? No new theory of nationalism is put forth in From Nowhere to Somewhere. Rather, in a memoiristic and clearly personal manner, the text provides a kind of nuts-and-bolts guide to nationality-building.