Table of Contents

Introduction: Nation and Interpretation
1: National Imagery before 1600
2: Visual Components of a Nation
3: Celebrating the Nation
4: Evoking the Homeland
5: Rediscovering the Past
6: Commemorating the Fallen
Conclusion: Patterns of National Imagery

About the Author

Anthony D. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Nationalism and Ethnicity at the London School of Economics, President of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN), and Chief Editor of its journal, Nations and Nationalism. He is the originator of an ethno-symbolic approach to nations and nationalism, and the founder of the academic study of nationalism in Britain. His publications include eighteen single-authored books, translated into
twenty-two languages; three edited books; and over one hundred journal articles and chapters in edited books.

Reviews

Anthony Smith is a crisp explainer. The nature and purpose of his project is crystal clear ... He proves a level-headed chaperone for the minitature grand tour that is The Nation Made Real, equally at home in history and destiny, community and territory, landscape and ethnoscape ...
*Alex Danchev, Times Higher Education*

Anthony Smith, the doyen of Anglophone historians of nationalism (he has published at least twenty books with 'nation' or its cognates in the title) has brought his formidable learning to bear on the subject [of nationalist paintings] The Nation Made Real is a well-written, stimulating and rewarding study that can be warmly recommended to anyone interested in the history of nationalism in the period.
*Literary Review*

The Nation Made Real will be useful to students beyond the humanities and encourage them to take art seriously as a source, inviting them to delve deeper into the pictorial range and complications of the subject, and the rewards of primary research. At the same time, its sociological schema merit the critical attention of historical scholars too.
*Stephen Daniels, American Historical Review*

a good overview, by one of the leading specialists on nationalism... it will be a useful introduction for those who are new to this domain, such as undergraduate students from the field of art history, visual studies, history and nationalism studies.
*Eric Storm, English Historical Review*