Encounters with Nationalism

Blackwell

1995

xv, 208 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index

9780631194811

Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Nationalism and Marxism. 2. Nationalism and the International Order. 3. From Kinship to Ethnicity. 4. The Betrayal of the Universal. 5. The Sacred and the National. 6. A Non-nationalist Pole. 7. Kemalism. 8. Enlightenment Against Faith. 9. The Price of Velvet: Tomas Masaryk and Vaclav Havel. 10. Reborn from below: The Forgotten Beginnings of the Czech National Revival. 11. The Nazi Jew-lover. 12. The Mightier Pen: The Double Standards of Inside-out Colonalism. 13. From the Ruins of the Great Contest: Civil Society, Nationalism and Islam. 14. An Alternative Vision. Index

The forecast demise of nationalism under the new moral orders of communism and internationalism has proved illusory. In the present century, to an extent greater perhaps than in all others, nationalism has been the dominant force in the affairs of humankind.

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