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Title:
Nations and nationalism
Author:
Gellner, Ernest.
ISBN:
9780801475009
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Edition:
2nd ed.
Publication Information:
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2008.
Physical Description:
liii, 152 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Series:
New perspectives on the past

Cornell paperbacks

New perspectives on the past (Basil Blackwell Publisher)
General Note:
Originally published as hbk.: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2006.
Contents:
Definitions: State and nation ; The Nation -- Culture in agrarian society: Power and culture in the agro-literature society ; 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.
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