Power and the nation in European history
| Titel: | Power and the nation in European history / ed. by Len Scales ... |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005 |
| Umfang: | XI, 389 Seiten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 0521608309 ; 9780521608305 ; 0521845807 ; 9780521845809 |
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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 book engages with these questions by drawing on the expertise of leading medieval, early modern and modern historians.
