Power and the Nation in European HistoryLen Scales, Oliver Zimmer Cambridge University Press, 2005 M06 9 - 389 páginas Few would doubt the central importance of the nation in the making and unmaking of modern political communities. The long history of 'the nation' as a concept and as a name for various sorts of 'imagined community' likewise commands such acceptance. But when did the nation first become a fundamental political factor? This is a question which has been, and continues to be, far more sharply contested. A deep rift still separates 'modernist' perspectives, which view the political nation as a phenomenon limited to modern, industrialised societies, from the views of scholars concerned with the pre-industrial world who insist, often vehemently, that nations were central to pre-modern political life also. This book engages with these questions by drawing on the expertise of leading medieval, early modern and modern historians. |
Contenido
Were there nations in Antiquity? | 33 |
The idea of the nation as a political community | 54 |
continuity | 67 |
the early English experience | 105 |
being English in medieval Ireland | 143 |
The state and Russian national identity | 195 |
identity regionality and | 232 |
The nation in the age of revolution | 248 |
Enemies of the Nation? Nobles foreigners and the constitution | 275 |
Nation nations and power in Italy c 17001915 | 295 |
Political institutions and nationhood in Germany 17501914 | 315 |
Nation nationalism and power in Switzerland c 17601900 | 333 |
Britain c 1800c 1914 | 354 |
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