Nations Before Nationalism

by John Alexander Armstrong and John A. Armstrong

In search of an explanation of how a sense of ethnic identity evolves to create the concept of nation, Armstrong analyzes Islamic and Christian cultures from antiquity to the nineteenth century. He explores the effects of institutions--the city, imperial polity, bureaucratic imperatives of centralization, and language divisions--on the development of ethnicity. Political science furnishes the focus, anthropology and sociology provide the conceptual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807896071
• ISBN13: 9780807896075
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 447 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"