The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism

by Adrian Hastings

Book Overview

This interdisciplinary book straddles the fields of history, politics, religion and sociology, and medieval and modern history. Its importance lies in its contribution to arguments about the meaning and origin of nationalism, ethnicity and nationhood, and in challenging the widely-accepted modernist theories of Eric Hobsbawm, Benedict Anderson and others. Its argument incorporates careful analysis of English, Irish, South Slav and African examples,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521625440
• ISBN13: 9780521625449
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"