Faces of Nationalism Janus Revisited

by NAIRN, TOM

• ISBN13: 9781859841945
• ISBN10: 1859841945
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-02-17
• Publisher: Verso

Summary

A challenging study charting the rise of progressive nationalism. Author Tom Nairn argues that nation-building movements from 1750 to 1990 have saved the world from imperial barbarism. Nairn's wide-ranging discussion cites Ireland, Palestine, Bosnia and Czechoslovakia, Cambodia, Rwanda, South Africa, and Scotland.

Author Biography

Tom Nairn‘s many books include The Break-up of Britain, Faces of Nationalism, After Britain, and The Enchanted Glass. He writes for, among others, New Left Review and the London Review of Books.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: On Studying Nationalism	p. 1
The Internationale: Questions of Rootedness	p. 21
Internationalism: A Critique	p. 25
The Owl of Minerva	p. 47
Demonising Nationality	p. 57
Faces of Nationalism: The Modern Janus	p. 71
From Civil Society to Civic Nationalism: Evolutions of a Myth	p. 73
The Curse of Rurality: Limits of Modernisation Theory	p. 90
Race and Nationalism	p. 113
Cities and Nationalism	p. 122
The Small Battalions: The Question of Scale	p. 133
Andorra	p. 135
Micro-states	p. 143
A Civic-Nationalist Divorce: Czechs and Slovaks	p. 150
Ulster	p. 157
Palestine	p. 167
Scotland: The Question of Scotland	p. 179
Identities of Scotland	p. 183
Empire and Union	p. 194
Sovereignty After the Election	p. 210
Notes	p. 225
Index	p. 239
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