The State of the nation: Ernest Gellner and the theory of nationalism

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Introduction John A. Hall Part I. The Making of the Theory: 1. Thoughts about change: Ernest Gellner and the history of nationalism Roman Szporluk 2. Ernest Gellner's diagnoses of nationalism: a critical overview, or, what is living and what is dead in Ernest Gellner's philosophy of nationalism Brendan O'Leary Part II. The Classical Criticisms: 3. Real and constructed: the nature of the nation Miroslav Hroch 4. The curse of rurality: limits of modernisation theory Tom Nairn 5. Nationalism and language: a post-Soviet perspective David Laitin 6. Ernest Gellner's theory of nationalism: some definitional and methodological issues Nicos Mouzelis Part III. Bringing Politics Back In: 7. Nationalisms that bark and nationalisms that bite: Ernest Gellner and the substantiation of nations Mark Beissinger 8. Nationalism and modernity Charles Taylor 9. Modern multi-national democracies: transcending a Gellnerian oxymoron Alfred Stepan Part IV. Wider Implications: 10. Nationalism and civil society in Central Europe: from Ruritania to the Carpathian Euroregion Chris Hann 11. From here to modernity: Ernest Gellner on nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism Dale F. Eickelman 12. Myths and misconceptions in the study of nationalism Rogers Brubaker.

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