Table of Contents
Abbreviations ix
Introduction 1
1 Nationality In The Divided State 15
1.1 Three Concepts of the Nation 16
1.2 Political Philosophy: the Critique of Hegel 22
1.3 Theory of History: Class, State, and Nation 36
1.4 Theory of Political Action, or Why the Workers have no Vaterland 48
2 Identities In Conflict 57
2.1 Natural and Social Sources of Warfare 60
2.2 Community, Freedom, and National Identity 69
2.3 The Rise of Ethnocentric Nationalism 81
3 Explaining Nationalism 93
3.1 Elements of Theory 95
3.2 Liberal and Statist Nationalism in Germany 104
3.3 Principles and Interests in Foreign Policy 114
3.4 The Social Bases of Popular Nationalism 122
4 Ethics And Realpolitik In The National Policy, 1847-1849 138
4.1 The Theory behind the Policy 142
4.2 Criterion 1: International Reciprocity 148
4.3 Criterion 2: Social Reform 152
4.4 Criterion 3: Viability 159
5 Rescuing Internationalism 171
5.1 Anti-colonial Nationalism outside Europe 172
5.2 Ireland and the Independence Question 186
5.3 Working-class Patriotism and the First International 197
6 The Revenge Of Nations, 1870-? 209
6.1 The Nationalizing of Socialism? 210
6.2 The Non-autonomy of Nationalism 222
6.3 Some Post-nationalist Fallacies 241
Bibliography 257
Index 263
