Nations
Rosalind Mitchison, 17 September 1987
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
by Benedict Anderson.
Verso, 160 pp., £5.95, November 1987,0 86091 759 2 Show More
by Benedict Anderson.
Verso, 160 pp., £5.95, November 1987,
Culture, Identity and Politics
by Ernest Gellner.
Cambridge, 189 pp., £8.95, June 1987,0 521 33667 8 Show More
by Ernest Gellner.
Cambridge, 189 pp., £8.95, June 1987,
The Ethnic Origins of Nations
by Anthony Smith.
Blackwell, 312 pp., £25, October 1986,0 631 15205 9 Show More
by Anthony Smith.
Blackwell, 312 pp., £25, October 1986,
Us and Them: A Study of Group Consciousness
by W.A. Elliott.
Aberdeen University Press, 164 pp., £12.50, November 1986,9780080324388 Show More
by W.A. Elliott.
Aberdeen University Press, 164 pp., £12.50, November 1986,
“... What nationalism is, and how it came to exist, are topics of some significance today. One reason for this is practical: that a suitable answer to these questions would justify some states, sure of their own right to nationalism, in suppressing national claims by minority or neighbour populations. There are other, more intellectually respectable, reasons ... ”
