Nations The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism

Name: Nations The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism
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ISBN: 9781107400023

ISBN-10: 1107400023

ISBN-13: 9781107400023

Edition: 2013

Authors: Azar Gat, Alexander Yakobson

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What are the origins of nationalism and why is it capable of arousing such intense emotions? In this major study, Azar Gat counters the prevailing fashionable theories according to which nations and nationalism are modern and contrived or 'invented'. He sweeps across history and around the globe to reveal that ethnicity has always been highly political and that nations and national states have existed since the beginning of statehood millennia ago. He traces the deep roots of ethnicity and nationalism in human nature, showing how culture fits into human evolution from as early as our aboriginal condition and, in conjunction with kinship, defines ethnicity and ethnic allegiances. From the…

Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/20/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 447
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English