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Nations and nationalism/ Ernest Gellner

By: Gellner, ErnestMaterial type: Text

TextSeries: (New perspectives on the past)Publication details: Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2006Edition: 2nd edDescription: liii, 152 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9781405134422Subject(s): Nationalism | IndustrializationDDC classification: 320.54

Contents:

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	320.54 GEL/N (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	20/10/2021	P02143

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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.

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