{"product_id":"the-nation-in-history-9780745625805","title":"The Nation in History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this thought-provoking new book, Anthony Smith analyses key debates between historians and social scientists on the role of nations and nationalism in history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Drawing examples from across the globe and providing succinct summaries of key ideas about nationalism developed by philosophers, sociologists and historians from Herder and Rousseau to Homi Bhaba and William McNeill, this is a stimulating and insightful essay by one of the foremost experts on nationalism studies today.' \u003ci\u003eEnglish Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"For thirty years, Anthony D. Smith has published extensively on the phenomenon of the 'nation' and has a global reputation in this field.\" \u003ci\u003eHistory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword by \u003ci\u003eYosef Kaplan\u003c\/i\u003e vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Voluntarism and the Organic Nation 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrganic and Voluntarist Nationalism 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural Determination and the Political Ideal 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEthnic and Civic Nations 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural Primordialism 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The Nation: Modern or Perennial? 27\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Modernist Orthodoxy 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModernist Historiography 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Perennialist Critique 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContinuous Perennialism 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecurrent Perennialism 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAncient Nations? 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Problems with Perennialism 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Social Construction and Ethnic Genealogy 52\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInvented Traditions, Imagined Communities 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Critique of Social Constructionism 61\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Ethnosymbolic Account of Nations and Nationalism 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 101\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404357116247,"sku":"9780745625805","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-nation-in-history-9780745625805","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}