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| Three Years on: An Introduction to the Second Romanian Edition | |
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| The Story of a Book | |
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| Demythologizing? | |
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| Eminescu | |
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| The Interwar Years and the Communist Period | |
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| The Kosovo Syndrome | |
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| We Are a Nation, Not an Orthodox Nation | |
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| The Federalist "Threat" | |
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| From the "Geto-Dacians" to the "Medieval Romanian Nation" | |
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| Opinion Polls | |
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| The Textbook Scandal | |
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| What I Believe | |
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| Introduction to the First Edition | |
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| History, Ideology, Mythology | |
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| The First Entry into Europe | |
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| Nationalism and Modernization | |
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| A National Myth: Michael the Brave | |
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| Different Projects, Different Histories | |
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| The Glorification of the Past | |
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| From Romanticism to the Critical School | |
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| The Junimist Paradigm: Detachment from History | |
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| The Autochthonist Reaction | |
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| Impossible Objectivity | |
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| Communist Discourse: The Anti-national Phase | |
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| Communist Discourse: Recovering the Past | |
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| Communist Discourse: The Exacerbation of Nationalism | |
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| Origins | |
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| Some Principles | |
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| Roman Times | |
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| Dacians and Romans: A Difficult Synthesis | |
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| The Dacians Get Their Own Back | |
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| Class Struggle in Dacia | |
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| The Dacian Moment of Communism | |
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| The Slavs, an Oscillating Presence | |
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| The Nation: Biological Organism or Social Community? | |
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| Continuity | |
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| A Historiographical Paradox: The Area Where the Romanian People Was Formed | |
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| North and South of the Danube: A Possible Compromise? | |
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| The Consolidation of Romanity North of the Danube | |
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| The Communist Years: Ideological Imperatives and Archeological Arguments | |
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| The Romanian State during the "Dark Millennium" | |
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| Conclusions: Archeology, Linguistics, and Politics | |
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| Unity | |
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| Transylvanians, Wallachians, Moldavians... or Romanians? | |
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| Rivers and Mountains | |
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| Historical Unity: Ebb and Re-elaboration | |
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| Communism: The Myth of Unity at Its Zenith | |
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| In Search of the Romanian Soul | |
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| A Fluid Synthesis | |
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| The Romanians and the Others | |
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| "He to Whom Foreigners Are Dear..." | |
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| Defenders of the West | |
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| Separation from the East | |
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| The French Myth | |
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| The German "Countermyth" | |
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| Communist Mythology | |
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| Post-revolutionary Reference Points | |
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| Three Sensitive Files: The Gypsies, the Hungarians, and the Jews | |
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| Friends and Opponents: A Historical Game | |
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| The Plot against Romania | |
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| The Imperial Temptation | |
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| Competing Rights: Nations, Borders, Minorities | |
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| The Fourth World Power | |
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| What the "Others" Say about the Romanians | |
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| The Ideal Prince | |
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| Heroes and Saviors | |
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| The Composition of the National Pantheon | |
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| Death to the Boyars: The File on Ioan Voda | |
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| "Why Do You Not Come Back, Lord Tepes...?" | |
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| The Dynastic Myth | |
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| A Second Dynasty? | |
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| Feminine Mythology: Queen Marie | |
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| Interwar Saviors | |
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| Legionary Mythology | |
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| From Balcescu to Gheorghiu-Dej | |
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| From Burebista to Ceausescu | |
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| After 1989 | |
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| Rupture or Continuity? | |
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| Always United? | |
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| The Methodology of Forgetting | |
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| The Freedom to Say Anything | |
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| A Moment Which We Must Get behind Us: Mythological Blockage | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |