List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Source Traditions
Wilderness, Exoticism and the State's Order: Medieval Views
The Renaissance and Democratic Primitivism
Anthropology and the Nation: Character and Climate in the Seventeenth Century
Politics and the Nation: Patriotism and Democracy in Enlightenment Thought
The Nation Empowered: Popular Sovereignty and National Unity in the French Revolution
Culture and the Nation: Literature, the Public Sphere and Anti-French Relativism
The Politics of National Identity
Napoleon and the Rise of Political Communication
Napoleon and the Rise of National Historicism
Restoration and the Nation-State
Nationalism as State Centralism
Nationalism as Unification
Nationalism as Separatism
Identity Rampant
The Nation's Sources, the State's Borders: Culture into Geopolitics
The Nationalization of Culture
Ethnic Nationalism and Racism
Versailles and after
Aftermath and Conclusions: Twentieth-Century Issues
Tethering National Sovereignty: Transnationalism and Internationalism
Postnationalism: After the Cold War
From Nation-State to Civic State?
Appendices
Languages, Alphabets, Dialects and Language Politics
Source References
Bibliography
Index