The Ethnic Origins of Nations

, by Smith, Anthony D.

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ISBN: 9780631161691 | 0631161694
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 1/8/1991

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This book is an excellent, comprehensive account of the ways in which nations and nationhood have evolved over time. Successful in hardback, it is now available in paperback for a student audience.

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Preface
Note to Maps
Maps
Introduction
Are Nations Modern?
'Modernists' and 'Primordialists'
Ethnie, Myths and Symbols
The Durability of Ethnic Communities
Ethnic Communities in Pre-Modern Eras:
Foundations of Ethnic Community
The Dimensions of Ethnie
Some Bases of Ethnic Formation
Structure and persistence of Ethnie
Ethnie and Ethnicism in History
Uniqueness and Exclusion
Ethnic Resistance and Renewal
External Threat and Ethnic Response
Two Types of Ethnic Mythomoteur
Class and Ethnie in Agrarian Societies
Military Mobilization and Ethnic Consciousness
Two Types of Ethnie
Ethnic Polities
Ethnic Survival and Dissolution
Location and Sovereignty
Demographic and Cultural Continuity
Dissolution of Ethnie
Ethnic Survival
Ethnic Socialization and Religious Renewal
Ethnie and Nations in the Modern Era
The Formation of Nations
Western Revolutions
Territorial and Ethnic Nations
Nation-Formation
The Ethnic Model
Ethnic Solidarity or Political Citizenship?
From Ethnie to Nation
Politicization of Ethnie
The New Priesthood
Autarchy and Territorialization
Mobilization and Inclusion
The New Imagination
Legends and Landscapes
Nostalgia and Posterity
The Sense of 'The Past'
Romantic Nationalism as an 'Historical Drama'
Poetic Spaces: The Uses of Landscape
Golden Ages: The Uses of History
Myths and Nation-Building
The Genealogy of Nations
Parmenideans and Heraclitans
The 'Antiquity' of Nations
Transcending Ethnicity?
A World of Small Nations
Ethnic Mobilization and Global Security
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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The Ethnic Origins of Nations

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