Nationalism

In: Oxford readers

Abstract

I. The question of definition. Qu'est-ce qu'une nation? / Ernest Renan -- The nation / Joseph Stalin -- The nation / Max Weber -- Nationalism and social communication / Karl W. Deutsch -- Primordial and civic ties / Clifford Geertz -- The nation as power-container / Anthony Giddens -- A nation is a nation, is a state, is an ethnic group, is a ... / Walker Connor -- II. Theories of nationalism. Nationalism and self-determination / Elie Kedourie -- Nationalism and modernization / Ernest Gellner -- Nationalism and high cultures / Ernest Gellner -- The maladies of development / Tom Nairn -- The nation as invented tradition / Eric Hobsbawm -- (c)œlite competition and nation-formation / Paul R. Brass -- Imagined communities / Benedict Anderson -- A socio-biological perspective / Pierre Van Den Berghe -- The sources of nationalist ideology / John Breuilly -- The crisis of dual legitimation / Anthony D. Smith -- Cultural nationalism and moral regeneration / John Hutchinson -- III. The rise of nations. Old and new nations / Hugh Seton-Watson -- Regnal sentiments and medieval communities / Susan Reynolds -- Nations before nationalism / John Armstrong -- The origins of nations / Anthony D. Smith -- When is a nation? / Walker Connor -- IV. Nationalism in Europe. Western and Eastern nationalisms / Hans Kohn -- Types of European nationalism / Liah Greenfeld -- Nationalism in Eastern Europe / Peter Sugar -- The rise of ethno-linguistic nationalisms / Eric Hobsbawm -- Ethno-regional movements in the West / Michael Hechter and Margaret Levi -- V. Nationalism outside Europe. Creole pioneers of nationalism / Benedict Anderson -- Dark gods and their rites / Elie Kedourie -- National history and its exclusions / Partha Chatterjee -- Islam and nationalism / Francis Robinson -- Ideologies of delayed development / Mary Matossian -- The colonial construction of African nations / Crawford Young -- State and nation in African thought / Benyamin Neurberger -- Economic nationalism in new states / Harry Johnson -- VI. Nationalism and the international system. Three phases of nationalism / Edward H. Carr -- The rise of the nation-state system / Alfred Cobban -- Europe and the international state system / Charles Tilly -- War and nations / Michael Howard -- Ethnic conflict in the West / Arend Lijphart -- The logic of secessions / Donald Horowitz -- Irredentist and secessionist challenges / James Mayall -- Towards a post-communist world / John Armstrong -- VII. Beyond nationalism? Ethnic nationalism and post-industrialism / Anthony H. Richmond -- Reasserting the polyethnic norm / William H. McNeill -- Narrating the nation / Homi Bhabha -- Women and the nation-state / Floya Anthias and Nira Yuval-Davis -- Europeanness : a new cultural battlefield? / Philip Schlesinger