TY - BOOK AU - Gellner, Ernest TI - Nations and nationalism SN - 9781405134422 U1 - 320.54 PY - 2006/// CY - Malden PB - Blackwell Publishing KW - Nationalism KW - Industrialization N1 - Editor's preface to the first edition / R.I. Moore -- Introduction / John Breuilly -- Definitions. State and nation ; The nation -- Culture in agrarian society. Power and culture in the agro-literate polity ; Culture ; The state in agrarian society ; The varieties of agrarian rulers -- Industrial society. The society of perpetual growth ; Social genetics ; The age of universal high culture -- The transition to an age of nationalism. A note on the weakness of nationalism ; Wild and garden cultures -- What is a nation. The course of true nationalism never did run smooth -- Social entropy and equality in industrial society. Obstacles to entropy ; Fissures and barriers ; A diversity of focus -- A typology of nationalisms. The varieties of nationalist experience ; Diaspora nationalism -- The future of nationalism. Industrial culture, one or many? -- Nationalism and ideology. Who is for Nuremberg? ; One nation, one state -- Conclusion. What is not being said ; Summary ER -