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Acknowledgments -- List Of Contributors -- Introduction / By Gérard Bouchard -- The Small Nation With A Big Dream: Québec National Myths (eighteenth-twentieth Centuries) / By Gérard Bouchard -- National Imaginaries In A Globalizing Age: The Case Of English Canada / By Allan Smith -- The Myth(s) That Will Not Die: American National Exceptionalism / By Ian Tyrrell -- Ethnic Myths As National Identity In Brazil / By Jeffrey Lesser -- Understanding Mexico's Master Myth: A Case For Theory / By Fernando Castaños -- 1066 And All That: Myths Of The English / By Krishan Kumar -- Polish Mythology And The Traps Of Messianic Martyrology / By Geneviève Zubrzycki -- Myths And National Identity Choices In Post-communist Russia / By Yitzhak M. Brudny -- Myth And The Postnational Polity: The Case Of The European Union / By Vincent Della Sala -- Transforming Myths, Contested Narratives: The Reshaping Of Mnemonic Traditions In Israeli Culture / By Yael Zerubavel -- War Room Stories And The Rainbow Nation: Competing Narratives In Contemporary South African Literature / By Monica Popescu -- Gender, Nehanda, And The Myth Of Nationhood In The Making Of Zimbabwe / By Ruramisai Charumbira -- War, Myths, And National Identity Formation: Chinese Attitudes Toward Japan / By Yinan He -- Lineages And Lessons (for National Myth Formation) Of Japan's Postwar National Myths / By Stephen Vlastos -- Myths Of The Nation, Cultural Recognition, And Personal Law In India / By Narendra Subramanian -- National Myths: An Overview / By Gérard Bouchard. Edited By Gérard Bouchard. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.