Introduction
1: Nationalism and Religion
2: The Nation as a Sacred Communion
3: Election and Covenant
4: Peoples of the Covenant
5: Missionary Peoples
6: Sacred Homelands
7: Ethno history and the Golden Age
8: Nationalism and Golden Ages
9: The Glorious Dead
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Anthony D. Smith is Professor of Ethnicity and Nationalism at the
London School of Economics, vice-president of the Association for
the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism. He has spent over three
decades exploring a variety of aspects of nationalism, and this
book represents the culmination of a lifetime's work on the
subject. His publications include Nationalism(1994) and Ethnicity
(1996) (both co-edited with John Hutchinson) from the Oxford
Readers series, The Ethnic Origins of Nations (Blackwell, 1986),
National Identity (Penguin, 1991), Nationalism and Modernism
(Routledge, 1998), Myths and Memories of the Nation (OUP, 1999),
The Nation in History
(University Press of New England, 2000), and Nationalism (Polity,
2001).
This book is like Jacob's coat of many colours: rich and varied in ideas and insights that should appeal to European historians and social scientists. THES a lucid and wide-ranging study Karen Armstrong, The Independent Review
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