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Nationalism is one of the most powerful forces in the modern world, yet its study has only recently gained popularity. This reader gives historical depth to the recent debates on nationalism and traces the development of thought on nationalism across a wide range of issues with reference to texts spanning from Ernest Renan's What is a Nation? in the 1880s to current views given in the 1990s.Issues covered include the definitions of the nation and of nationalism, theories of nationalism, the origins of nations, nationalism in Europe, the Third World and within the International System, and the future of nationalism itself.

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• Introduction
• I The Question of Definition Introduction
• 1 Qu'est-ce qu'une nation?
• 2 The Nation
• 3 The Nation
• 4 Nationalism and Social Communication
• 5 Primordial and Civic Ties
• 6 The Nation as Power-Container
• 7 A Nation is a Nation, is a State, is an Ethnic Group, is a...
• II Theories of Nationalism Introduction
• 8 Nationalism and Self-Determination
• 9 Nationalism and Modernization
• 10 Nationalism and High Cultures
• 11 The Maladies of Development
• 12 The Nation as Invented Tradition
• 13 Elite Competition and Nation-Formation
• 14 Imagined Communities
• 15 A Socio-Biological Perspective
• 16 The Sources of Nationalist Ideology
• 17 The Crisis of Dual Legitimation
• 18 Cultural Nationalism and Moral Regeneration
• III The Rise of Nations Introduction
• 19 Old and New Nations
• 20 Regnal Sentiments and Medieval Communities
• 21 Nations before Nationalism
• 22 The Origins of Nations
• 23 When is a Nation?
• VI Nationalism In Europe Introduction
• 24 Western and Eastern Nationalisms
• 25 Liah Greenfeld, Types of European Nationalism
• 26 Nationalism in Eastern Europe
• 27 The Rise of Ethno-Linguistic Nationalisms
• 28 Ethno-Regional Movements in the West
• V Nationalism outside Europe Introduction
• 29 Creole Pioneers of Nationalism
• 30 Dark Gods and their Rites
• 31 National History and its Exclusions
• 32 Islam and Nationalism
• 33 Ideologies of Delayed Development
• 34 The Colonial Construction of African Nations
• 35 State and Nation in African Thought
• 36 Economic Nationalism in New States
• VI Nationalism and the International System Introduction
• 37 Three Phases of Nationalism
• 38 The Rise of the Nation-State System
• 39 Europe and the International State System
• 40 War and Nations
• 41 Ethnic Conflict in the West
• 42 The Logic of Secessions
• 43 Irredentist and Secessionist Challenges
• 44 Towards a Post-Communist World
• VII Beyond Nationalism? Introduction
• 45 Ethnic Nationalism and Post-Industrialism
• 46 Reasserting the Polyethnic Norm
• 47 Narrating the Nation
• 48 Women and the Nation-State
• 49 Europeanness: A New Cultural Battlefield?
• Notes Select Bibliography Biographical
• Notes
• Acknowledgements
• Index

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CHOICE Review

This is the first reader to be published on the subject of nationalism in many years. It is an invaluable collection of 49 expertly chosen extracts from the key authors in the field. The book includes a representative of each major theoretical approach, historical epoch, and geographical domain. The first section covers definitions (from Renan and Stalin to Weber and Connor) and the second section theories (Gellner, Hobsbawm, Anderson, Brass, and others.) The third section deals with the premodern era, the fourth with European nationalisms, and the fifth with nationalism outside Europe. The sixth section addresses the international system, and the seventh offers postindustrialist and postmodernist perspectives. The collection will become the standard work in courses on nationalism. Its pithy extracts will introduce students to the breadth of the literature in the field, and will stimulate them to follow up by reading the original sources at greater length. Undergraduate. P. Rutland; Wesleyan University

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Anthony Smith is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. John Hutchinson is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities at Griffith University, Brisbane.