Nations and nationalism

Main Author: Gellner, Ernest
Corporate Author: Blackwell
Other Authors: Breuilly, John,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, c2006
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:New perspectives on the past
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Definitions. State and nation. The Nation
  • Culture in agrarian society. Power and culture in the agro-literature polity. Culture. The state in agrarian society. The varieties of agrarian rulers
  • Industrial society. The society of perpetual growth. Social genetics. The age of universal high culture
  • The transition to an age of nationalism. A note on the weakness of nationalism. Wild and garden cultures
  • What is a nation? The course of true nationalism never did run smooth
  • Social entropy and equality in industrial society. Obstacles to entropy. Fissures and barriers. A diversity of focus
  • A typology of nationalisms. The varieties of nationalist experience. Diaspora nationalism
  • The future of nationalism. Industrial culture - one or many?
  • Nationalism and ideology. Who is for Nuremberg? One nation, one state
  • Conclusion. What is not being said. Summary.