Table of Contents

Introduction
1: The Nation as Action
2: The Social Nation
3: The Struggle for Survival
4: The Return to Action
5: The Lud, the Naród, and Historical Time
6: Organization
7: The National Struggle
8: National Egoism
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Brian Porter is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Michigan.

Reviews

An extensively researched and perceptive analysis American Historical Review The book is a very welcome addition to the historiographies of both Poland and nationalism, bringing an expanded base of sources, fresh hypotheses, and skillfull discussion to familiar topics. It succeeds admirably in being at once provocative and authoritative in its scholarship and simultaneously empathetic and critical toward the subject matter American Historical Review