Month: February 2017

This piece is a nice compliment to Anderson’s “Imagined Communities.” Kolossov also identified national (or political) identification as ultimately being an arbitrary social construct. Kolossov’s primary focus is on the ethnic identities of former members of the Soviet Union and how their perception of ethnicity and its significance in their life has changed. Ethnic identification […]

Goal: Our project aims to examine the many conceptions and definitions of secession through the lens of the 17th-century Quaker community. The project will cover about 1650 to 1690 which is a period that includes the events leading up to and immediately after the falling out between the Quakers and Puritans. We hope to create […]