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Nations and nationalism

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Cornell University Press, 1983 - Political Science - 150 pages
This thoughtful and penetrating book, addressed to political scientists, sociologists, historians, and anthropologists, interprets nationalism in terms of its social roots, which it locates in industrial social organization. Professor Gellner asserts here that a society?s affluence and economic growth depend on innovation, occupational mobility, the effectiveness of the mass media, universal literacy, and an all-embracing educational system based on a shared, standard idiom. These factors, taken together, govern the relationship between culture and the state. Political units that do not conform to the principle, ?one state, one culture? feel the strain in the form of nationalistic activity.

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"A better explanation than anyone has yet offered of why nationalism is such a prominent principle of political legitimacy today. This is a terse and forceful work . . . the product of great ... Read full review

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If you never have read Ernest Gellner you must. Irrespective of the accuracy of his particular interpretation of nationalism the book is an intellectual roller-coaster ride. Read full review

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About the author (1983)

Ernest Gellner was Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics from 1962 to 1984, when he became Professor of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University. Before his death in 1995, he was Research Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Nationalism at the Central European University in Prague. His many books include "Words and Things", "Thoughts and Change", "Saints of the Atlas", "Nations and Nationalism, Culture, Identity and Politics, Plough, Sword, and Book", and "Conditions of Liberty

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TitleNations and nationalism
(New Perspectives on the Past)
Cornell paperbacks
Cornell paperbacks: History/Political science
AuthorErnest Gellner
Editionreprint
PublisherCornell University Press, 1983
ISBN0801492637, 9780801492631
Length150 pages
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Political Science / History & Theory
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism
  
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