Everything you need to understand or teach The Invention of Tradition by Eric Hobsawm and Terence Ranger.
The Invention of Tradition is a classic work of historiography, edited by the great British Marxist historian, Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, a prominent African historian. The book, which is in fact a compilation of seven works, focuses around a single theme of the invention of many so-called historical, cultural, and social traditions. This statement implies that these traditions were often deliberately created much later than many realize and arose in...
The Invention of Tradition Lesson Plans contain 103 pages of teaching material, including: