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Nations and nationalism / Ernest Gellner ; introduction by John Breuilly.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gellner, Ernest.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nationalism.
- Industrialization.
- Physical Description:
- liii, 152 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- Ernest Gellner's Nations and Nationalism (1983) provides one of the most powerful and original interpretations of modern nationalism. Drawing upon a range of disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, sociology, politics and history, Gellner argues that nationalism is an inescapable consequence of modernity.
- For this new edition of Nations and Nationalism, John Breuilly provides a substantial introduction, analysing Gellner's arguments and tracing and evaluating the ways in which the field has changed over the past two decades. Suggestions for further reading have also been updated.
- Contents:
- 1 Definitions 1
- State and Nation 3
- The Nation 5
- 2 Culture in Agrarian Society 8
- Power and Culture in the Agro-literate Polity 9
- Culture 11
- The State in Agrarian Society 13
- The Varieties of Agrarian Rulers 14
- 3 Industrial Society 19
- The Society of Perpetual Growth 23
- Social Genetics 29
- The Age of Universal High Culture 34
- 4 The Transition to an Age of Nationalism 38
- A Note on the Weakness of Nationalism 42
- Wild and Garden Cultures 48
- 5 What is a Nation? 52
- The Course of True Nationalism Never did Run Smooth 57
- 6 Social Entropy and Equality in Industrial Society 62
- Obstacles to Entropy 63
- Fissures and Barriers 72
- A Diversity of Focus 73
- 7 A Typology of Nationalisms 85
- The Varieties of Nationalist Experience 94
- Diaspora Nationalism 98
- 8 The Future of Nationalism 106
- Industrial Culture - One or Many? 110
- 9 Nationalism and Ideology 118
- Who is for Nuremberg? 125
- One Nation, One State 128
- 10 Conclusion 131
- What is not being Said 131.
- Notes:
- Originally published in hardcover in 2006: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [137]-147) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801475009
- 0801475007
- OCLC:
- 228371603
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