Gellner, Ernest <br/><br/>
Nations and nationalism / 
Ernest Gellner ; introduction by John Breuilly. 
 - 2nd ed. 
 - p. cm. 
 - New perspectives on the past .
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<br/><br/>Definitions. State and nation. The Nation -- Culture in agrarian society. Power and culture in the agro-literature society. The varieties of agrarian rulers -- Industrial society. The society of perpetual growth. Social genetics. The age of universal high culture -- The transition to an age of nationalism. A note on the weakness of nationalism. Wild and garden culture -- What is a nation. The course of true nationalism never did run smooth -- Social entropy and equality in industrial society. Obstacles to entropy. Fissures and barriers. A diversity of focus -- A typology of nationalisms. The varieties of nationalist experience. Diaspora nationalism -- The future of nationalism. Industrial culture - one or many? -- Nationalism and ideology. Who is for Nuremberg? One nation, one state. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781405134422 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1405134429 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005031819 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Industrialization<br/>Nationalism
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JC311  / .G483 2006