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020			_a9781139047654 (ebook)
020			_z9781107007857 (hardback)
020			_z9781107400023 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aJC311 _b.G44 2013
082	0	0	_a320.54 _223
100	1		_aGat, Azar, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aNations : _bThe Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism / _cAzar Gat ; with Alexander Yakobson.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2012.
300			_a1 online resource (450 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aWhat are the origins of nationalism and why is it capable of arousing such intense emotions? In this major study, Azar Gat counters the prevailing fashionable theories according to which nations and nationalism are modern and contrived or 'invented'. He sweeps across history and around the globe to reveal that ethnicity has always been highly political and that nations and national states have existed since the beginning of statehood millennia ago. He traces the deep roots of ethnicity and nationalism in human nature, showing how culture fits into human evolution from as early as our aboriginal condition and, in conjunction with kinship, defines ethnicity and ethnic allegiances. From the rise of states and empires to the present day, this book sheds new light on the explosive nature of ethnicity and nationalism, as well as on their more liberating and altruistic roles in forging identity and solidarity.
650		0	_aNationalism
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107007857
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139047654
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37664 _d37664