Nationalism

Author: John Hutchinson and Anthony D. Smith Series: Oxford Readers

Part I: The Question of Definition 1. Ernest Renan: Qu'est-ce qu'une nation? 2. Joseph Stalin: The Nation 3. Max Weber: The Nation 4. Karl W. Deutsch: Nationalism and Social Communication 5. Clifford Geertz: Primordial and Civic Ties 6. Anthony Giddens: The Nation as Power-Container 7. Walker Connor: A Nation is a Nation, is a State, is an Ethnic Group, is a... Part II: Theories of Nationalism 8. Elie Kedourie: Nationalism and Self-Determination 9. Ernest Gellner: Nationalism and Modernization 10. Ernest Gellner: Nationalism and High Cultures 11. Tom Nairn: The Maladies of Development 12. Eric Hobsbawm: The Nation as Invented Tradition 13. Paul R. Brass: Elite Competition and Nation-Formation 14. Benedict Anderson: Imagined Communities 15. Pierre Van Den Berghe: A Socio-Biological Perspective 16. John Breuilly: The Sources of Nationalism Ideology 17. Anthony D. Smith: The Crisis of Dual Legitimation 18. John Hutchinson: Cultural Nationalism and Moral Regeneration Part III: The Rise of Nations 19. Hugh Seton-Watson: Old and New Nations 20. Susan Reynolds: Regnal Sentiments and Medieval Communities 21. John Armstrong: Nations before Nationalism 22. Anthony D. Smith: The Origins of Nations 23. Walker Connor: When is a Nation? Part IV: Nationalism in Europe 24. Hans Kohn: Western and Eastern Nationalisms 25. Liah Greenfeld: Types of European Nationalism 26. Peter Sugar: Nationalism in Eastern Europe 27. Eric Hobsbawm: The Rise of Ethno-Linguistic Nationalisms 28. Michael Hechter and Margaret Levi: Ethno-Regional Movements in the West Part V: Nationalism outside Europe 29. Benedict Anderson: Creole Pioneers of Nationalism 30. Elie Kedourie: Dark Gods and their Rites 31. Partha Chatterjee: National History and its Exclusions 32. Francis Robinson: Islam and Nationalism 33. Mary Matossian: Ideologies of Delayed Development 34. Crawford Young: The Colonial Construction of African Nations 35. Benyamin Neuberger: State and Nation in African Thought 36. Harry Johnson: Economic Nationalism in New States Part VI: Nationalism and the International System 37. Edward H. Carr: Three Phases of Nationalism 38. Alfred Cobban: The Rise of the Nation-State System 39. Charles Tilly: Europe and the International State System 40. Michael Howard: War and Nations 41. Arend Lijphart: Ethnic Conflict in the West 42. Donald Horowitz: The Logic of Secessions 43. James Mayall: Irredentist and Secessionist Challenges 44. John Armstrong: Towards a Post-Communist World Part VII: Beyond Nationalism? 45. Anthony H. Richmond: Ethnic Nationalism and Post-Industrialism 46. William H. McNeill: Reasserting the Polyethnic Norm 47. Homi Bhabha: Narrating the Nation 48. Floya Anthias and Nira Yuval-Davis: Women and the Nation-State 49. Philip Schlesinger: Europeanness: A New Cultural Battlefield?

Nationalism is one of the most powerful forces in the modern world, and its study has recently gained greatly in popularity. This Reader gives historical depth to the recent debates on nationalism and traces the development of thought on nationalism across a range of issues with reference to over a century of texts.

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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 nationand 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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“"The most comprehensive and up-to-date selection of writings on nationalism, including many of the seminal authors. An excellent collection!"--Frank Tachau,University of Illinois at Chicago "An amazing amount of information is included. This book contains excerpts from the works of some of the best scholars on nationalism. The authors have a diverse set of views , and...have selected the core parts of these writings for inclusion."--Dean McHeiry,Claremont College "This type of reader is badly needed for courses that take a serious thematic approach to world history."--J. Michael Allen,Brigham Young University "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....[W]ill become the standard work in courses on nationalism. Its pithy extracts will introduce students to the breadth of the literature in the field..."--Choice "Excellent collection of articles with good historical coverage and a useful bibliography. I will certainly adopt it."--Oriol Pi-Sunyer,University of Massachusetts at Amherst”

"The most comprehensive and up-to-date selection of writings on nationalism, including many of the seminal authors. An excellent collection!"--Frank Tachau, University of Illinois at Chicago

"An amazing amount of information is included. This book contains excerpts from the works of some of the best scholars on nationalism. The authors have a diverse set of views, and...have selected the core parts of these writings for inclusion."--Dean McHeiry, Claremont College

"This type of reader is badly needed for courses that take a serious thematic approach to world history."--J. Michael Allen, Brigham Young University

"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....[W]ill become the standard work in courses on nationalism. Its pithy extracts will introduce students to the breadth of the literature in the field..."--Choice

"Excellent collection of articles with good historical coverage and a useful bibliography. I will certainly adopt it."--Oriol Pi-Sunyer, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

About the Author

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.

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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.