Few political phenomena have proved as confusing and difficult to comprehend as nationalism. There is no consensus on its identity, genesis or future. Are we, for example, in the process of being thrust back into a nineteenth-century world of competitive and aggressive great powers and petty nationalisms? Or are we being flung headlong into a new, globalized and supra-national millennium? Has the nation-state outlived its usefulness and exhausted its progressive and emancipatory role, or has nationalism always been implicated in an exclusivist ethnic and militaristic logic?

The latest in the highly regarded Mappings Series, Mapping the Nation is the essential reader on nationalism. In a series of classic texts, it explores the construction of the nation-state and the meaning of nationalism. Contributors include:

• Lord Acton
• Otto Bauer
• Ernest Gellner
• Jurgen Habermas
• Eric Hobsbawm
• Michael Mann
• Tom Nairn

With additional contributions from: John Breuilly, Pattha Chatteree, Miroslav Hroch, Anthony Smith, Katherine Verdery and Sylvia Walby.

Publication
October 1996

Mappings Series

320 pages


Paper
1 85984 060 4
£13.00 / US$22