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New Perspectives on the Past: Nations and Nationalism (Paperback)

Director of the Center for the Study of Nationalism Ernest Gellner; Professor of Nationalism and Ethnicity John Breuilly
Cornell University Press
9780801475009
0-8014-7500-7

First published in 1983, Nations and Nationalism remains one of the most influential explanations of the emergence of nationalism ever written. This updated edition of Ernest Gellner's now-canonical work.

includes a new introductory essay from John Breuilly, tracing the way the field has evolved over the past two decades, and a bibliography of important work on nationalism since 1983.