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. The long history of 'the nation' as a concept and as a name for various sorts of 'imagined community' likewise commands such acceptance. But when did the nation first...

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Other Authors: Scales, Len 1961- (Editor), Zimmer, Oliver 1964- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2005
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Summary:Few would doubt the central importance of the nation in the making and unmaking of modern political communities. The long history of 'the nation' as a concept and as a name for various sorts of 'imagined community' likewise commands such acceptance. But when did the nation first become a fundamental political factor? This is a question which has been, and continues to be, far more sharply contested. A deep rift still separates 'modernist' perspectives, which view the political nation as a phenomenon limited to modern, industrialised societies, from the views of scholars concerned with the pre-industrial world who insist, often vehemently, that nations were central to pre-modern political life also. This 2005 book engages with these questions by drawing on the expertise of leading medieval, early modern and modern historians
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Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 389 pages)
ISBN:9780511614538
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511614538

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