Nation in History Historiographical Debates about Ethnicity and Nationalism

Name: Nation in History Historiographical Debates about Ethnicity and Nationalism
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ISBN: 9781584650409

ISBN-10: 1584650400

ISBN-13: 9781584650409

Edition: 2000

Authors: Anthony D. Smith

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In the first theoretical analysis of historiographical debates about ethnicity and nationalism, Anthony Smith provides a probing account of historians' assumptions and explanations of nationalism in different historical epochs. Ranging broadly over the contributions and divergent perspectives of historians, political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists and others who have contributed to these fundamental debates, Smith codifies the most cogent responses that have been offered to three defining issues in this area: the nature and origin of the nation and nationalism; the antiquity or modernity of nations and nationalism; and the role of nations and nationalism in historical, and…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Publication date: 6/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 122
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.46" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction



Voluntarism and the Organic Nation


Organic and Voluntarist Nationalism


Cultural Determinism and the Political Ideal


Ethnic and Civic Nations


Cultural Primordialism


Conclusion



The Nation: Modern or Perennial?


The Modernist Orthodoxy


Modernist Historiography


The Perennialist Critique


Continuous Perennialism


Recurrent Perennialism


Ancient Nations?


Conclusion: Problems with Perennialism



Social Construction and Ethnic Genealogy


Invented Traditions, Imagined Communities


A Critique of Social Constructionism


An Ethnosymbolic Account of Nations and


Nationalism


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index