| Description |
xv, 563 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Nations and Nationalism -- 2. Europe: the old continuous nations : from empire to sovereign state ; the old continuous nations ; the British and Irish nations ; the French ; the Iberian nations ; the Netherlanders ; the Scandinavians ; the Swiss ; the Russians -- 3. Europe: movements for national unity : greater and lesser Germany ; Italian unity ; the Greeks and the 'Great Idea' ; Panslavism ; the Poles: from partition to unity ; the Yugoslavs -- 4. Europe: multi-national empires and new nations : multi-national empires ; Czechs and Germans in Bohemia ; the Hungarians ; the Slovaks ; the Romanians ; the Ukrainians -- 5. European nations overseas : the expansion of Europe ; from settlement to independence ; the United States ; the Spanish American nations ; the Brazilians ; the Canadians ; White South Africans ; the Australians -- 6. West Asia and North Africa: Muslim empires and modern nations : the rise and fall of Muslim empires ; the revival of Iran ; European domination ; Islamic modernism and Panislamism ; the Iranians ; the Turks ; the Arab nation -- 7. East Asia: empires, colonies, and nations : empires and cultures ; European domination ; China: decline and revival ; the Japanese ; Hindus, Muslims and British in India ; India: multi-lingual nation or multi-national state? ; Pakistan ; South-east Asia ; from the empire of the tsars to the Soviet empire -- 8. Africa: colonial empires, new states, and new nations : early African states ; European colonisation ; imperial policies and attitudes ; African nationalism ; African states and nations -- 9. Race and nation: white racialism and anti-white nationalism : racialism ; black and white in the Americas ; black and white in South Africa ; the American Indians -- 10. Diaspora nations : types of diaspora ; the Jews ; anti-semitism and Zionism ; Israel ; overseas Indians ; Chinese and Malaysians -- 11. Class and nation : 'feudalism' and 'bourgeoisie' ; bureaucracies and intelligentsias ; the Polish and Hungarian cases ; the language manipulators ; immigrant societies ; anti-colonialist elites ; nationalist elites under communist rule ; national and class struggles -- 12. Nationalism and ideological movements : nationalism and liberalism ; socialism ; fascism ; communism -- 13. Nations, states and the human community : patterns of national movement ; the nation as object of worship ; nationalism as a cause of war ; sovereignty and national cultures ; the sovereign state and the international order ; dissolution of national cultures ; national cultures and human civilisation |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [507]-544 |
| Subject |
Nationalism -- History.
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| LC no. |
77004237 |
| ISBN |
0891582274 |
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