Nations and nationalism
By: Ernest Gellner ; introduction by John Breuilly.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781405134422
Subjects: Nationalism; Industrialization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Definitions. State and nation. The Nation; title: Culture in agrarian society. Power and culture in the agro-literature society. The varieties of agrarian rulers; title: Industrial society. The society of perpetual growth. Social genetics. The age of universal high culture; title: The transition to an age of nationalism. A note on the weakness of nationalism. Wild and garden culture; title: What is a nation. The course of true nationalism never did run smooth; title: Social entropy and equality in industrial society. Obstacles to entropy. Fissures and barriers. A diversity of focus; title: A typology of nationalisms. The varieties of nationalist experience. Diaspora nationalism; title: The future of nationalism. Industrial culture - one or many?; title: Nationalism and ideology. Who is for Nuremberg? One nation, one state.