Nationalism in Europe
Subtitle: 1850 to the Present
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 21, 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415125642
First sentence: Nationalism has become so integral a part of life in Europe today that it is virtually impossible not to identify oneself with a nation state: we think of ourselves as Italians, French or English; we have been prepared of fight wars to affirm the independence or rights of our nation against what we regard as the threats of other states or, tragically, other 'ethnically' different peoples, such as Serbs, Croats and Bosnian Muslims, Armenians or Azers.