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Nations : the long history and deep roots of political ethnicity and nationalism
- Title
- Nations : the long history and deep roots of political ethnicity and nationalism / Azar Gat ; with Alexander Yakobson.
- Author
- Gat, Azar.
- Publication
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- ©2013
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Yakobson, Alexander.
- Description
- vi, 441 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "What are the origins of nationalism and why is it capable of arousing such intense emotions? In this major study, Azar Gat counters the prevailing fashionable theories according to which nations and nationalism are modern and contrived or 'invented'. He sweeps across history and around the globe to reveal that ethnicity has always been highly political and that nations and national states have existed since the beginning of statehood millennia ago. He traces the deep roots of ethnicity and nationalism in human nature, showing how culture fits into human evolution from as early as our aboriginal condition and, in conjunction with kinship, defines ethnicity and ethnic allegiances. From the rise of states and empires to the present day, this book sheds new light on the explosive nature of ethnicity and nationalism, as well as on their more liberating and altruistic roles in forging identity and solidarity"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Is nationalism recent and superficial?; 2. The evolution of kin-culture communities; 3. From tribes to statehood; 4. Premodern ethne, peoples, states and nations around the world; 5. Premodern Europe and the national state; 6. Modernity: nationalism released, transformed and enhanced; 7. State, national identity, ethnicity: normative and constitutional aspects; Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-1383
- ISBN
- 9781107007857 (hardback)
- 1107007852 (hardback)
- 9781107400023 (paperback)
- 1107400023 (paperback)
- LCCN
- 2012025021
- OCLC
- YBP 2012025021
- Author
- Gat, Azar.
- Title
- Nations : the long history and deep roots of political ethnicity and nationalism / Azar Gat ; with Alexander Yakobson.
- Publisher
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Yakobson, Alexander.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-1383