Format:
Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781139615686
Series Statement:
EBL-Schweitzer
Content:
Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: is nationalism recent and superficial?; Ethnicity has always been political; How deep did premodern ethnonational identity reach?; The underlying dispute; Concepts and definitions; Ethnos and ethnicity; Peoples; Nation and national state; Nationalism and patriotism; 2 The evolution of kin-culture communities; Kinship and culture in the past 150,000 years; Evolutionary inheritance and historical transformation; 3 From tribes to statehood; Tribal growth and ethnic expansion; From tribes to states; State formation, tribal erosion, and ethnicity; 4 Premodern ethne, peoples, states, and nations around the worldA Ethnos and city-state; The cradle of civilization; Phoenicians, Greeks, and Rome; Premodern America, Africa, Asia, and Europe; B The premodern national state; Ancient Egypt: the first state - and first national state; Nascent national states in the ancient Near East; China: the largest and most enduring ancient people and state; In the giant´s shadow: national states around China; C Were empires ethnically blind?; From Assyria to Persia; The Hellenistic and Roman empires; The Arab, Ottoman, and Mughal empires; Conclusion; 5 Premodern Europe and the national stateGeopolitics: statehood in the Classical Mediterranean and in emergent Europe; A The mushrooming of national states in emergent Europe; The British Isles: a history of four nations; Scandinavian identity and national identities; The medieval German national empire; The Czech lands; The Polish national state and empire; The Russian nation and the Russian Empire; Conclusion; B Southern versus northern Europe; Medieval national states and the clutches of empires in southeast Europe States, geography, and national consolidation in Romance southwest Europe The French paradigmatic case; C Was the premodern European nation impossible due to religion, empire, dynastic rule, inequality, and dialect fragmentation?; Religion and the nation; Empire; The dynastic national kingdom; Sociopolitical inequality; How deep was dialect fragmentation?; Conclusion; 6 Modernity: nationalism released, transformed, and enhanced; A The will of the people and the nation: what enabled what? B Civic nations or ethnic nations? Europe, the English-speaking immigrant countries, Latin America, Africa, and AsiaThe European national templates; The European Union; The English-speaking immigrant states: purely civic nations?; Ethnicity and nation-building in Latin America; Ethnicity and nation-building in sub-Saharan Africa; Ethnicity and nation-building in the southeast Asian archipelago; Ethnicity and nation-building in India and Pakistan; Conclusion: civic versus ethnic nations?; C National conflict and solidarity in a globalizing world; The audit of war: willingly killing and dying for one's nation; A groundbreaking study of the foundations of nationalism, exposing its antiquity, strong links with ethnicity and roots in human nature
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107007857
Additional Edition:
Print version Nations : The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism
Additional Edition:
Druckausg.: Gat, ʿAzar, 1959 - Nations Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013 ISBN 9781107007857
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107400023
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Nationalismus
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Ethnizität
;
Geschichte
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