| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 389 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Were there nations in antiquity? / Anthony D. Smith -- The idea of the nation as a political community / Susan Reynolds -- Changes in the political uses of the nation: continuity or discontinuity? / John Breuilly -- Germanic power structures: the early English experience / Patrick Wormald -- The historiography of the Anglo-Saxon 'nation-state' / Sarah Foot -- Exporting state and nation: being English in medieval Ireland / Robin Frame -- Late medieval Germany: an under-stated nation? / Len Scales -- The state and Russian national identity / Geoffrey Hosking -- Ordering the kaleidoscope: the construction of identities in the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth since 1569 / Robert Frost -- Nationhood at the margin: identity, regionality and the English crown in the seventeenth century / Tim Thorton -- The nation in the age of revolution / Ian McBride -- Enemies of the nation? Nobles, foreigners, and the constitution of national citizenship in the French Revolution / Jennifer Heuer -- Nation, nations and power in Italy, c. 1700-1915 / Stuart Woolf -- Political institutions and nationhood in Germany, 1750-1914 / Abigail Green -- Nation, nationalism and power in Switzerland, c. 1760-1900 / Oliver Zimmer -- Nation and power in the liberal state: Britain c. 1800-c. 1914 / Peter Mandler. |
| Summary |
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 breathes new life into the scholarly debate surrounding the formation of nations and nationalism in European history. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nation-state.
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Nation-state. |
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Europe -- Politics and government.
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Europe. |
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Politics and government. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Scales, Len, 1961-
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Zimmer, Oliver, 1964-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Power and the nation in European history. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005 (DLC) 2004062837 |
| ISBN |
0511125542 (electronic book) |
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9780511125546 (electronic book) |
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0511125828 (electronic book) |
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9780511125829 (electronic book) |
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0511124961 |
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9780511124969 |
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9780511614538 (ebook) |
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0511614535 (ebook) |
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9780521845809 (hardback) |
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0521845807 (hardback) |
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128020298X |
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9781280202988 |
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0521608309 (Paper) |
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0521845807 (Cloth) |
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9780521608305 (paperback) |
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0521608309 |
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