Nations - The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism

Informationen zum Autor Azar Gat is Ezer Weitzman Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department at Tel Aviv University. His more recent publications include A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War (2001), War in Human Civilization (2006), named one of the best books of the year by The Times Literary Supplement, and Victorious and Vulnerable: Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How it is Still Imperilled (2010). Klappentext A groundbreaking study of the foundations of nationalism, exposing its antiquity, strong links with ethnicity and roots in human nature. Zusammenfassung This major new study counters the prevailing fashionable theories according to which nations and nationalism are a modern 'invention'. It traces the roots of ethnicity and nationalism in human nature! and sweeps across history and around the globe to show that nations and national states have existed for millennia. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Azar Gat, Azar (Tel-Aviv University) Gat, Gat Azar
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2012
• EAN: 9781107007857
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00785-7
• No. of pages: 450
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, History of Ideas, HISTORY / World, Nationalism, General & world history, Comparative Politics, Social and cultural history, General and world history