The Antiquity of NationsISBN: 978-0-7456-2745-8
Hardcover
280 pages
September 2004, Polity
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- written by the world’s leading authority on nationalism
- provides a fresh interpretation of the character of modern nations
- provides a sustained critique of some of the main exponents of modernism
- explores key historical and sociological issues, such as the possibility of ‘finding’ nations in antiquity, the impact of war on ethnicity at various periods of history, the nature and function of golden ages, and the impact of Romanticism on nationalism.