Mapping the nation

Verso

1996

vi, 329 p.

Mapping

9781859840603

Contents: Nationality / Lord Acton. The nation / Otto Bauer. From national movement to the fully-formed nation : the nation-building process in Europe / Miroslav Hroch. The coming of nationalism and its interpretation : the myth of nation and class / Ernest Gellner. Approaches to nationalism / John Breuilly. Nationalism and the historians / Anthony D. Smith. The national imagination / Gopal Balakrishnan. Whose imagined community? / Partha Chatterjee. Whither 'nation' and 'nationalism'? / Katherine Verdery. Woman and nation / Sylvia Walby. Ethnicity and nationalism in Europe today / Eric J. Hobsbawm. Internationalism and the second coming / Tom Nairn. The European nation-state : its achievements and its limits. On the past and future of sovereignty and citizenship / Jürgen Habermas. Nation-states in Europe and other continents : diversifying, developing, not dying / Michael Mann

One of the first titles in the series «Mappings», this book is designed to offer readers surveys of new zones of cultural, social and political experience. It contains contributions on the study of nationalism and an introduction to the theories on the subject.

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