Nations and Identities Classic Readings

This anthology brings together selections from some of the most significant writings on the idea of national identity over the last 400 years and includes important contributions to contemporary debates in the social sciences and postcolonial studies.

Vincent P. Pecora is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies at UCLA. His book publications include Self and Form in Modern Narrative (1989) and Households of the Soul (1997).

Acknowledgments

viii

Introduction

1

(42)

Vincent P. Pecora

Part I Inventing the Modern State

43

(12)

Leviathan (1651)

45

(5)

Thomas Hobbes

Two Treatises of Government (1690)

50

(5)

John Locke

Part II From Divine to Human History

55

(50)

The New Science (1725; 1744)

57

(3)

Giambattista Vico

The Spirit of the Laws (1748)

60

(13)

Charles Louis de Secondat

Baron de Montesquieu

The Social Contract; The Origin of Inequality; and The Government of Poland (1754-72)

73

(9)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Dissertations on Ossian (1763)

82

(5)

James Macpherson

Ideas for a Philosophy of History of Mankind (1784-91)

87

(6)

Johann Gottfried von Herder

Discourse on the Hindus (1786)

93

(7)

Sir William Jones

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

100

(5)

Edmund Burke

Part III The Spirit of a People

105

(100)

Study on Sovereignty (composed 1793-8; first published 1884)

107

(7)

Joseph de Maistre

Addresses to the German Nation (1808)

114

(14)

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

The Philosophy of History (1830-1)

128

(3)

G. W. F. Hegel

The Inequality of Human Races (1854)

131

(11)

Arthur de Gobineau

Considerations on Representative Government (1861)

142

(7)

John Stuart Mill

Nationality (1862)

149

(7)

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

To the Italians (1871)

156

(6)

Giuseppe Mazzini

What is a Nation? (1882)

162

(15)

Ernest Renan

Our America (1891)

177

(8)

Jose Marti

The Jewish State (1896)

185

(5)

Theodor Herzl

The Conservation of Races (1897)

190

(10)

W.E. B. Du Bois

Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899)

200

(5)

Houston Stewart Chamberlain

Part IV Nations at the End of Empires

205

(72)

Home Rule; Enlightened Anarchy; and National Language (1909-39)

207

(13)

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

The Right of Nations to Self-Determination (1914)

220

(9)

V. I. Lenin

Addresses: The Fourteen Points; and The League of Nations (1918, 1919)

229

(7)

Woodrow Wilson

Aims and Objects of Movement for Solution of Negro Problem (1924)

236

(5)

Marcus Garvey

The Myth of the Twentieth Century (1930)

241

(7)

Alfred Rosenberg

Three Guineas (1938)

248

(5)

Virginia Woolf

Discourse on Colonialism (1955)

253

(11)

Aime Cesaire

On National Culture (1959)

264

(13)

Frantz Fanon

Part V Contemporary Perspectives

277

(93)

The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States (1963)

279

(13)

Clifford Geertz

Nations and Nationalism (1983)

292

(17)

Ernest Gellner

Imagined Communities (1983)

309

(9)

Benedict Anderson

The Riddle of Midnight:India, August 1987

318

(7)

Salman Rushdie

The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question (1987)

325

(8)

Partha Chatterjee

The Origins of Nations (1989)

333

(21)

Anthony D. Smith

A Kind of Scar: The Woman Poet in a National Tradition (1989)

354

(5)

Eavan Boland

Narrating the Nation (1990)

359

(5)

Homi K. Bhabha

Culture and Imperialism (1993)

364

(6)

Edward W. Said

Index

370

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