Encounters with Nationalism

by Ernest Gellner

Book Overview

The forecast demise of nationalism under the new moral orders of communism and internationalism has proved illusory. In the present century, to an extent greater perhaps than in all others, nationalism has been the dominant force in the affairs of humankind. Why should this have been? Why is it that a national identity should continue to be the aspiration of almost all peoples without one and, at the same time, the justification - in the process of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631194819
• ISBN13: 9780631194811
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"