Table of Contents
Introduction Benedict Anderson 1
1 Nationality Lord Acton 17
2 The Nation Otto Bauer 39
3 From National Movement to the Fully-formed Nation: The Nation-building Process in Europe Miroslav Hroch 78
4 The Coming of Nationalism and Its Interpretation: The Myths of Nation and Class Ernest Gellner 98
5 Approaches to Nationalism John Breuilly 146
6 Nationalism and the Historians Anthony D. Smith 175
7 The National Imagination Gopal Balakrishnan 198
8 Whose Imagined Community? Partha Chatterjee 214
9 Whither 'Nation' and 'Nationalism'? Katherine Verdery 226
10 Woman and Nation Sylvia Walby 235
11 Ethnicity and Nationalism in Europe Today Eric J. Hobsbawm 255
12 Internationalism and the Second Coming Tom Nairn 267
13 The European Nation-state - Its Achievements and Its Limits. On the Past and Future of Sovereignty and Citizenship Jürgen Habermas 281
14 Nation-states in Europe and Other Continents: Diversifying, Developing, Not Dying Michael Mann 295
Acknowledgements 317
Index 319