Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Nationalism and Religion
2: The Nation as a Sacred Communion
3: Election and Covenant
4: Peoples of the Covenant
5: Missionary Peoples
6: Sacred Homelands
7: Ethno history and the Golden Age
8: Nationalism and Golden Ages
9: The Glorious Dead
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Anthony D. Smith is Professor of Ethnicity and Nationalism at the London School of Economics, vice-president of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism. He has spent over three decades exploring a variety of aspects of nationalism, and this book represents the culmination of a lifetime's work on the subject. His publications include Nationalism(1994) and Ethnicity (1996) (both co-edited with John Hutchinson) from the Oxford
Readers series, The Ethnic Origins of Nations (Blackwell, 1986), National Identity (Penguin, 1991), Nationalism and Modernism (Routledge, 1998), Myths and Memories of the Nation (OUP, 1999), The Nation in History
(University Press of New England, 2000), and Nationalism (Polity, 2001).

Reviews

This book is like Jacob's coat of many colours: rich and varied in ideas and insights that should appeal to European historians and social scientists. THES a lucid and wide-ranging study Karen Armstrong, The Independent Review