Patrick Geary: Modern European Nationalism and the Fight to Control the Past

Duration
1:03:38

Modern European Nationalism and the Fight to Control the Past




Patrick Geary, Professor of Medieval History, UCLA


Does history matter in the New Europe? Geary will explore the recent, dangerous resurgence of ethnocentric nationalism since 1989 in Europe, which makes an appeal to long-discredited but still powerful myths about the region’s deep past.


This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on January 20, 2010.