Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism
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 rise of states and empires to the present day, this book sheds new light on the explosive nature of ethnicity and nationalism, as well as on their more liberating and altruistic roles in forging identity and solidarity.
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Contents
Introduction is nationalism recent and superficial?
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The evolution of kinculture communities
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From tribes to statehood
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Premodern ethne peoples states and nations around the world
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A Ethnos and citystate
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B The premodern national state
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C Were empires ethnically blind?
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Premodern Europe and the national state
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C Was the premodern European nation impossible due to religion empire dynastic rule inequality and dialect fragmentation?
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Modernity nationalism released transformed and enhanced
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what enabled what?
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B Civic nations or ethnic nations? Europe the Englishspeaking immigrant countries Latin America Africa and Asia
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C National conflict and solidarity in a globalizing world
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State national identity ethnicity normative and constitutional aspects
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Notes
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A The mushrooming of national states in emergent Europe
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B Southern versus northern Europe
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Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism Azar Gat Limited preview - 2012 |
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