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National minorities and the European nation-states system
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ISBN: 0198294379 Year: 1998 Publisher: Oxford [England] New York Clarendon Press Oxford University Press

Power and the nation in European history
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ISBN: 0521608309 0521845807 9780521608305 9780521845809 9780511614538 0511125542 9780511125546 0511125828 9780511125829 0511124961 9780511124969 0511614535 128020298X 9781280202988 1107152194 9781107152199 0511198671 9780511198670 0511299559 9780511299551 Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Abstract

Few would doubt the central importance of the nation in the making and unmaking of modern political communities. The long history of 'the nation' as a concept and as a name for various sorts of 'imagined community' likewise commands such acceptance. But when did the nation first become a fundamental political factor? This is a question which has been, and continues to be, far more sharply contested. A deep rift still separates 'modernist' perspectives, which view the political nation as a phenomenon limited to modern, industrialised societies, from the views of scholars concerned with the pre-industrial world who insist, often vehemently, that nations were central to pre-modern political life also. This 2005 book engages with these questions by drawing on the expertise of leading medieval, early modern and modern historians.

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