Table of Contents

1. Nationalism: strengths and contradictions, truths and lies
2. Nationalism before nations; nations before nationalism
3. Nation, nationalism and evolution 1789-1914
4. Imperial, national, racial and world war, 1914-45
5. International Marxism and the nation
6. Minorities old and new, and the nation since 1945

Promotional Information

A clear guide to nationalism in all its guises.

About the Author

R.J.B. Bosworth is Professor at the Department of History, University of Western Australia.

Reviews

"A stunning account of how Europe came to embrace nationalist attachments to land and flags and anthems and ancestry... Bosworth's grim tale of avaricious patriotism and chauvinist fealty gone feral is told with ironic grace and deftness." "David Lowenthal, Professor Emeritus, University College London" "Nationalism is a fresh and refreshing exploration of this seemingly inextinguishable phenomenon that deserves to be widely read and its message taken very seriously. [I]t is [both] deeply learned and unobtrusively analytical, [as well as] openly personal, spikily argumentative and; yes, critical of a current of ideology, culture and politics the author considers neither natural nor, over time, beneficial to the human species." "Martin Blinkhorn, Professor Emeritus of Modern European History, Lancaster University"