Faces Of Nationalism

A challenging study charting the rise of progressive nationalism. Over the last fewdecades, Tom Nairn has been one of the most respected and provocative writers on questions of nationalism, British politics and the constitution. In his seminal essay “”The Modern Janus,”” Nairn argued for the democratic necessity of nationalism in the modern world. Here, in this strikingly original and timely new work, he addresses the subsequent upheavals caused by nationalism. In Faces of Nationalism Tom Nairn argues that nation-building movements from 1750 to 1990 have saved the world from imperial barbarism. Contrary to many gloomy prognoses following the Soviet and Yugoslav collapses, Nairn argues that the chaos feared by so many observers is neither endless nor one-sidedly destructive. While insisting that nationalism is as inescapable as ever, Nairn shows how its forms and content are shifting. The ethnic definition of the national is giving way to the civic, the “”natural”” to the designed. Nairn believes that todays more civic and secular nationalism is a key feature of modernity and not an archaic reaction against it. Tom Nairns wide-ranging discussion takes in Ireland and Palestine, Bosnia and Czecho-SIovakia, Cambodia and Rwanda, South Africa and Scotland. Faces of Nationalism is a work that demands to be read by anyone wanting to understand a central feature of politics in the modern world.

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PrefaceIntroduction: On Studying Nationalism1Pt. IThe Internationale: Questions of Rootedness211Internationalism: A Critique252The Owl of Minerva473Demonising Nationality57Pt. IIFaces of Nationalism: The Modern Janus714From Civil Society to Civic Nationalism: Evolutions of a Myth735The Curse of Rurality: Limits of Modernisation Theory906Race and Nationalism1137Cities and Nationalism122Pt. IIIThe Small Battalions: The Question of Scale1338Andorra1359Micro-states14310A Civic-Nationalist Divorce: Czechs and Slovaks15011Ulster15712Palestine167Pt. IVScotland: The Question of Scotland17913Identities of Scotland18314Empire and Union19415Sovereignty After the Election210Notes225Index239