Nations and nationalism /
Ernest Gellner ; introduction by John Breuilly.
- 2nd ed.
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2008.
- liii, 152 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- New perspectives on the past (Basil Blackwell Publisher); Cornell paperbacks. .
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.