Nations and Nationalism

Name: Nations and Nationalism
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ISBN: 9780801475009

ISBN-10: 0801475007

ISBN-13: 9780801475009

Edition: 2nd 2009 (Revised)

Authors: Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly

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This thoughtful and penetrating book, addressed to political scientists, sociologists, historians, and anthropologists, interprets nationalism in terms of its social roots, which it locates in industrial social organization. Professor Gellner asserts here that a society's affluence and economic growth depend on innovation, occupational mobility, the effectiveness of the mass media, universal literacy, and an all-embracing educational system based on a shared, standard idiom. These factors, taken together, govern the relationship between culture and the state. Political units that do not conform to the principle, "one state, one culture" feel the strain in the form of nationalistic activity.

Book details

List price: $28.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 2/10/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.48" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



About the Authors


About this Edition


Editor's Preface to the First Edition R. I. Moore, Founding Editor


Acknowledgements for the First Edition


Introduction




Definitions


State and Nation


The Nation



Culture in Agrarian Society


Power and Culture in the Agro-literate Polity


Culture


The State in Agrarian Society


The Varieties of Agrarian Rulers



Industrial Society


The Society of Perpetual Growth


Social Genetics


The Age of Universal High Culture



The Transition to an Age of Nationalism


A Note on the Weakness of Nationalism


Wild and Garden Cultures



What is a Nation?


The Course of True Nationalism Never did Run Smooth



Social Entropy and Equality in Industrial Society


Obstacles to Entropy


Fissures and Barriers


A Diversity of Focus



A Typology of Nationalisms


The Varieties of Nationalist Experience


Diaspora Nationalism



The Future of Nationalism


Industrial Culture - One or Many?



Nationalism and Ideology


Who is for Nuremberg?


One Nation, One State



Conclusion


What is not being Said


Summary


Select Bibliography


Bibliography of Ernest Gellner's Writings on Nationalism



Index