Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Boxes......Page 8
Preface to the Second Edition......Page 10
Why nationalism?......Page 14
Objectives......Page 18
Structure......Page 19
Historical overview......Page 22
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries......Page 23
1918–1945......Page 44
1945–1989......Page 52
From 1989 to the present......Page 59
What is primordialism?......Page 62
The nationalist thesis......Page 64
Pierre van den Berghe and the sociobiological approach......Page 66
Edward Shils, Clifford Geertz and the culturalist approach......Page 68
Adrian Hastings and perennialism......Page 71
A critique of primordialism......Page 73
Primordialism today......Page 80
Economic transformations......Page 85
Tom Nairn and uneven development......Page 86
Michael Hechter and internal colonialism......Page 90
John Breuilly and nationalism as a form of politics......Page 96
Paul R. Brass and instrumentalism......Page 101
Eric J. Hobsbawm and the invention of tradition......Page 107
Social/cultural transformations......Page 110
Ernest Gellner and high cultures......Page 111
Benedict Anderson and imagined communities......Page 118
Miroslav Hroch and the three phases of nationalism......Page 126
A critique of modernism......Page 133
Modernism today......Page 150
What is ethnosymbolism?......Page 156
John Armstrong and myth-symbol complexes......Page 157
Anthony D. Smith and the ethnic origins of nations......Page 161
A critique of ethnosymbolism......Page 170
Ethnosymbolism today......Page 178
Why 'new'?......Page 182
Michael Billig and banal nationalism......Page 183
Nira Yuval-Davis and feminist approaches......Page 188
Partha Chatterjee and post-colonial theory......Page 195
Craig Calhoun and nationalism as discursive formation......Page 200
Rogers Brubaker and ethnicity without groups......Page 203
A critique of new approaches......Page 207
A critique of the theoretical debate on nationalism......Page 212
The outline of a theoretical approach to nationalism......Page 218
Nationalism studies today......Page 230
Bibliography......Page 233
C......Page 253
H......Page 254
M......Page 255
S......Page 256
Z......Page 257