--Joseph Rothschild, Columbia University, author of Return To Diversity
Oxford University Press Web Site, May, 2000
Summary
A collection of readings on nationalism, each of which is introduced by a brief historical essay and fully annotated,
this anthology strives to take the discussion beyond the classical argumentation and shift the focus to recent
intellectual developments in the field. The editors, who are among the foremost authorities on the subject, have
not overlooked familiar theorists like Fichte, Mazzini and Herder, but their emphasis is on recent thinkers, with
Max Weber, Eric Hobsbawm, Paul Gilroy, Miroslav Hroch, Ernest Gellner, and David Held in the forefront.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Classical Foundations
"What Is a Nation?, Ernest Renan
"Ethnic Groups", Max Weber
2. What Do Nations Come From?
"Nationalism", Ernest Gellner
"From National Movement to the Fully Formed Nation", Miroslav Hroch
"Scotland and Europe", Tom Nairn
"The Origins of Nations", Anthony D. Smith
"The Nation Form", Etienne Balibar
"Historicizing National Identity", Prasenjit Duara
"Census, Map, Museum", Benedict Anderson
"Peasants and Danes", Uffe Ostergard
"Mass-Producing Traditions", Eric Hobsbawm
"The USSR as a Communal Apartment", Yuri Slezkine
3. Colonialism, Race and Identity
"Nationalism as a Problem in the History of Political Ideas", Partha Chatterjee
"No Longer a Future Heaven", Anne McClintock
"Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers", Ann Stoler
"Basques, Anti-Basques and the Moral Community", Marianne Heiberg
"Race and the Issue of National Identity in Israel", Roselle Tekiner
"Ethnicity: Identity and Difference", Stuart Hall
"One Nation Under a Groove", Paul Gilroy
"The Ambiguities of Authenticity", Julie Skurski
4. Beyond the Nation
"The Decline of the Nation State", David Held
"National Identity", Renata Saleci
"The Nation-State and Its Others", Khachig Tololyan
"National Geographic", Lisa Malkki
"No Place Like Heimat", David Morley and Kevin Robbins "Rac(e)ing the Nation", Jeffrey M. Peck
"The Theory of Infantile Citizenship", Lauren Berlant
