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Nations and nationalism

Author:Ernest Gellner

Summary:This thoughtful and penetrating book, addressed to political scientists, sociologists, historians, and anthropologists, interprets nationalism in terms of its social roots, which it locates in industrial social organization. Professor Gellner asserts here that a society's affluence and economic growth depend on innovation, occupational...

Print Book, English, 1983

Edition:View all formats and editions

Publisher: Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1983

Series:

New perspectives on the past (Basil Blackwell Publisher)

Physical Description:viii, 150 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

ISBN:

9780801416620, 9780801492631, 0801416620, 0801492637

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:10169079

Subjects:

Industrialisation

Industrialization

industrialization

Additional Physical Form Entry:

Online version:

Nations and nationalism.

Gellner, Ernest.

Contents:

Definitions

Culture in agrarian society

Industrial society

The transition to an age of nationalism

What is a nation?

Social entropy and equality in industrial society

A typology of nationalisms

The future of nationalism

Nationalism and ideology

Conclusion