Power and the nation in European history /

Few would doubt the central importance of the nation in the making and unmaking of modern political communities. But when did the nation first become a fundamental political factor? This book breathes new life into the scholarly debate surrounding the formation of nations and nationalism in European...

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Other Authors: Scales, Len, 1961-, Zimmer, Oliver, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
©2005
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ISBN:0511125542
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Table of Contents:
  • Were there nations in antiquity? / Anthony D. Smith
  • The idea of the nation as a political community / Susan Reynolds
  • Changes in the political uses of the nation: continuity or discontinuity? / John Breuilly
  • Germanic power structures: the early English experience / Patrick Wormald
  • The historiography of the Anglo-Saxon 'nation-state' / Sarah Foot
  • Exporting state and nation: being English in medieval Ireland / Robin Frame
  • Late medieval Germany: an under-stated nation? / Len Scales
  • The state and Russian national identity / Geoffrey Hosking
  • Ordering the kaleidoscope: the construction of identities in the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth since 1569 / Robert Frost
  • Nationhood at the margin: identity, regionality and the English crown in the seventeenth century / Tim Thorton
  • The nation in the age of revolution / Ian McBride
  • Enemies of the nation? Nobles, foreigners, and the constitution of national citizenship in the French Revolution / Jennifer Heuer
  • Nation, nations and power in Italy, c. 1700-1915 / Stuart Woolf
  • Political institutions and nationhood in Germany, 1750-1914 / Abigail Green
  • Nation, nationalism and power in Switzerland, c. 1760-1900 / Oliver Zimmer
  • Nation and power in the liberal state: Britain c. 1800-c. 1914 / Peter Mandler.