Ethnic Origins of Nations

Name: Ethnic Origins of Nations
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ISBN: 9780631161691

ISBN-10: 0631161694

ISBN-13: 9780631161691

Edition: 1998

Authors: Anthony D. Smith

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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.

Book details

List price: $71.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/8/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.02" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



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