Nations and Identities: Classic Readings

Introduction: Vincent P. Pecora.

Part I: Inventing the Modern State:.

1. Leviathan (1651): Thomas Hobbes.

2. Two Treatises of Government (1690): John Locke.

Part II: From Divine to Human History:.

3. The New Science (1725; 1744): Giambattista Vico.

4. The Spirit of the Laws (1748): Charles Louis de Secondat (Baron de Montesquieu).

5. The Social Contract, Origin of Inequality, and Government of Poland (1754-72): Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

6. Dissertations on Ossian (1763): James Macpherson.

7. Ideas for a Philosophy of History of Mankind (1784-91): Johann Gottfried von Herder.

8. Discourse on the Hindus (1786): Sir William Jones.

9. Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790): Edmund Burke.

Part III: The Spirit of a People:.

10. Study on Sovereignty (Composed 1793-8; First Published 1884): Joseph de Maistre.

11. Addresses to the German Nation (1808): Johann Gottlieb Fichte.

12. The Philosophy of History (1830-1): G. W. F. Hegel.

13. The Inequality of Human Races (1854): Arthur de Gobineau.

14. Considerations on Representative Government (1861): John Stuart Mill.

15. Nationality (1862): John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton.

16. To the Italians (1871): Giuseppe Mazzini.

17 What is a Nation? (1882): Ernest Renan.

18. Our America (1891): José Martí.

19. The Jewish State (1896): Theodor Herzl.

20. The Conservation of Races (1897): W. E. B. Du Bois.

21. Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899): Houston Stewart Chamberlain.

Part IV: Nations at the End of Empires:.

22. Home Rule, Enlightened Anarchy, and National Language (1909-39): Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

23. The Right of Nations to Self-Determination (1914): V. I. Lenin.

24. Addresses: The Fourteen Points and League of Nations (1918-19): Woodrow Wilson.

25. Aims and Objects of Movement for Solution of Negro Problem (1924): Marcus Garvey.

26. The Myth of the Twentieth Century (1930): Alfred Rosenberg.

27 Three Guineas (1938): Virginia Woolf.

28. Discourse on Colonialism (1955): Aimé Césaire.

29 On National Culture (1959): Frantz Fanon.

Part V: Contemporary Perspectives:.

30. The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States (1963): Clifford Geertz.

31. Nations and Nationalism (1983): Ernest Gellner.

32. Imagined Communities (1983): Benedict Anderson.

33. The Riddle of Midnight: India, August 1987: Salman Rushdie.

34. The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question (1987): Partha Chatterjee.

35. The Origins of Nations (1989): Anthony D. Smith.

36. A Kind of Scar: The Woman Poet in a National Tradition (1989): Eavan Boland.

37. Narrating the Nation (1990): Homi K. Bhabha.

38. Culture and Imperialism (1993): Edward W. Said.

Index.