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Power and the Nation in European History

By Oliver Zimmer , Len Scales

Book information

Year
2005
ISBN
0521845807, 9780521845809
LCC
D31 .P68 2005
Open Library ID
OL3311468M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3223881 bytes)
Pages
402\403
Topic
History
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Few would doubt the central importance of 'the nation' in the making and unmaking of modern political communities. But when did 'the nation' first become a fundamental political factor? This book engages the expertise of modern historians in an attempt to resolve the issue. A deep rift still separates 'modernist' perspectives, which view the political nation as a phenomenon limited to modern, industrialized 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.

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