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Nations and nationalism / Ernest Gellner ; introduction by John Breuilly.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: ent Series: New perspectives on the past (Basil Blackwell Publisher); Cornell paperbacksPublication details: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2008.Edition: 2nd edDescription: liii, 152 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780801475009
  • 0801475007
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.158
LOC classification:
  • JC 311 G319n 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Definitions: State and nation ; The Nation -- Culture in agrarian society: Power and culture in the agro-literature society ; 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.
Summary: Drawing upon a range of disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, sociology, politics and history, this work argues that nationalism is an inescapable consequence of modernity.
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JC 311 G319e 1995 Encuentros con el nacionalismo / JC 311 G319na 2008 Naciones y nacionalismo / JC 311 G319n 1983 Nations and nationalism / JC 311 G319n 2008 Nations and nationalism / JC311 G795n 2005 Nacionalismo : cinco vías a la modernidad / JC 311 G968n 1996 Los nacionalismos / JC 311 G989c 2021 Critique du nationalisme : plaidoyer pour l'enracinement et l'identité /

Originally published as hbk.: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2006.

Incluye bibliografía e índice.

Definitions: State and nation ; The Nation -- Culture in agrarian society: Power and culture in the agro-literature society ; 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.

Drawing upon a range of disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, sociology, politics and history, this work argues that nationalism is an inescapable consequence of modernity.

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