TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gellner,Ernest
TI  - Nations and nationalism
T2  - New perspectives on the past
SN  - 9781405134422
U1  - 320.54 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Malden, etc.
PB  - Blackwell Publishing
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Industrialization
N1  - Includes index; Pt. 1. Definitions. State ; The nation -- 
Pt. 2. Culture in agrarian society. Power and culture in the agro-literate polity ; Culture ; The State in the agrarian society ; The varieties of agrarian rulers -- 
Pt. 3. Industrial society. The society of perpetual growth ; Social Genetics ; The age of universal high culture -- 
Pt. 4. The transition to the Age of Nationalism. A note on the weakness of nationalism ; Wild and garden cultures -- 
Pt. 5. What is a nation? The course of true nationalism never did run smooth -- 
Pt. 6. Social entropy and equality in industrial society. Obstacles to entropy ; Fissures and barriers ; A diversity of focus -- 
Pt. 7. A typology of nationalisms. The varieties of nationalist experience ; Diaspora nationalism -- 
Pt. 8. The future of nationalism. Industrial culture - one or many? -- 
Pt. 9. Nationalism and ideology. Who is the Nuremberg? ; One nation, one state -- 
Pt. 10. Conclusion. What is not being said ; Summary
N2  - Ernest Gellner's Nations and Nationalism provides one of the most powerful and original interpretations of the modern nationalism. Drawing upon a range of disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, sociology, politics and history, Gellner argues that nationalism is an inescapable consequence of modernity.

For this new edition, John Breuilly provides a substantial introduction, analyzing Gellner's arguments and tracing and evaluating the ways in which the field has changed over the past two decades. Suggestions for further reading have been updated
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