The state of the nation : Ernest Gellner and the theory of nationalism / edited by John A. Hall.

Other author Hall, John A., 1949-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Descriptionvii, 317 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Thoughts about change: Ernest Gellner and the history of nationalism / Roman Szporluk -- Ernest Gellner's diagnoses of nationalism: a critical overview, or, what is living and what is dead in Ernest Gellner's philosophy of nationalism? / Brendan O'Leary -- Real and constructed: the nature of the nation / Miroslav Hroch -- The curse of rurality: limits of modernisation theory / Tom Nairn -- Nationalism and language: a post-Soviet perspective / David Laitin -- Ernest Gellner's theory of nationalism: some definitional and methodological issues / Nicos Mouzelis -- Nationalisms that bark and nationalisms that bite: Ernest Gellner and the substantiation of nations / Mark Beissinger -- Nationalism and modernity / Charles Taylor -- Modern multinational democracies: transcending a Gellnerian oxymoron / Alfred Stepan -- Nationalism and civil society in central Europe: from Ruritania to the Carpathian Euroregion / Chris Hann -- From here to modernity: Ernest Gellner on nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism / Dale F. Eickelman -- Myths and misconceptions in the study of nationalism / Rogers Brubaker -- Bibliography of Ernest Gellner's writings on nationalism.
Local noteLittle-311918--305131020655V
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 97052663
ISBN0521633249
ISBN0521633664 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks JC311 .S77 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold