Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism Thomas Hennessey ISBN13: 9780892968954

ISBN13: 9780892968954

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Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism Thomas Hennessey ISBN13: 9780892968954What 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