This updated edition of Ernest Gellner's classic exploration of the roots of nationalism includes an extended introduction from John Breuilly, tracing the way the field has changed over the past two decades.
As pertinent today as it was when it was first published in 1983.
Argues that nationalism is a product of industrialization.
The new edition includes references to important work on nationalism published since 1983.
Second Edition not available in the USA.
Series Editor's Preface. Introduction by John Breuilly.
Acknowledgements.
1. Definitions.
State and nation.
The nation.
2. Culture in Agrarian Society.
Power and culture in the agro-literature society.
The varieties of agrarian rulers.
3. Industrial Society.
The society of perpetual growth.
Social genetics.
The age of universal high culture.
4. The Transition to an Age of Nationalism.
A note on the weakness of nationalism.
Wild and garden culture.
5. What is a Nation.
The course of true nationalism never did run smooth.
6. Social Entropy and Equality in Industrial Society.
Obstacles to entropy.
Fissures and barriers.
A diversity of focus.
7. A Typology of Nationalisms.
The varieties of nationalist experience.
Diaspora nationalism.
8. The Future of Nationalism.
Industrial culture - one or many?.
9. Nationalism and Ideology.
Who is for Nuremberg?.
One nation, one state.
10. Conclusion.
What is not being said.
Summary.
Select bibliography.
Bilbliography of Ernest Gellner's writing: Ian Jarvie.
Index
