Comparative Nationalism: Definitions, Interpretations, and the Black American and British West African Experience to 1947

Comparative Nationalism has original documentation that makes it unique. It is a book to be used in reorganizing the writing of history as it strengthens the case for early nationalism. This book is different than other books on the period or other edited conglomerations in that it brings closer together history, politics and government. The author chose to compare because she foresaw this reorganization. This book is concerned about describing only the early period. What stands out is what kind of government or nation happened at that time and how it can be connected to the later period. How can we speak of it in reference to French Africa or other parts of the world knowing the form it took. We survived slavery, but what is in our future from the impact from any given election to the next or from war to war. Not only since 911 or even the first war in Iraq do we see history differently but many historians had the vision to know a reorganization of history was imminent. The state of Israel came into existence in 1947. This kind of grouping helps us to shift themes and blocks better. We never thought something such as religion, for example, would have such an impact on the writing of history.

This book takes this time period and allows it to be better compared with not only the later period which historians have separated but with the newest era of black American and African history. Black history writers and teachers of the past and present have to step back and use different themes than they used to such as the need for war in history. The themes must be relevant and accurate. For example, the way they used to teach about the position of women in Islam has been exposed, or the way the position of women in America in capitalist relationships has been exposed. Do you still think we know what democracy is after current elections that allowed terrorists to win. The newest era involves old and new groups and organizations in black America since the death of Coretta King, for example, the Republican party, welfare reform or immigration reform. Many black lost interest or don’t know what happened in Africa in current years or even in the United States. They don’t know the names of the political organizations in the last 10-30 years. Much was destroyed in the newest era only to rise again recently.

This grouping of states in Comparative Nationalism allows us to view it better, and gives us some ideas of how to use the comparisons in writing and discussing world history. This is the methodology and rationale for this book on early nationalism. For a while this book was a hard back reference book in the Library of Congress.


About the Author:

Jacquelyn was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she was Chairman of Assemblies of her high school for the academically talented. At present she is fully certified in both Social Studies and Computer Education Laboratory teaching in the District of Columbia Public Schools. At the age of 19 to 20 she studied at the University of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania. She has done research in several countries and has studied at Antioch College, UCLA, and Howard University. Her previous employment includes work in private industry, for the Voice of America, and in other school systems. She has written on immigration history, the frontier thesis, and the melting pot theory and has published poems. Her sister, Stephanie Alston-Nero, has a current 2006 best-selling book here at ebooks.