Description: Argues that concern with the nation and national community will be a key factor in redefining twenty-first-century politics.
Review Quotes:
"This is an innovative and refreshingly idiosyncratic volume that applies a range of bottom-up analyses to the problem of the nation, nationalism, and the nation-state. Framed by very readable and highly informative introductory and concluding chapters, the reader is introduced to the variety of approaches to nationalism, not only regarding methodological approaches and theoretical trends but also regionally specific meanings of the nation." -- Harald Wydra, author of Politics and the Sacred