The Ethnic Origins of Nations (original) (raw)

Preface ix N ote to Maps xi M aps xii Introduction 1 1 Are nations modem? 'Modernists' and 'primordialists1 7 Ethnic, myths and symbols 13 The durability of ethnic communities 16 Part I E thnic communities in pre-modem eras 2 Foundations of ethnic community 21 The dimensions of ethnie 22 Some bases of ethnic formation Structure and persistence of ethnie 41 3 Ethnie and ethnicism in history Uniqueness and exclusion Ethnic resistance and renewal External threat and ethnic response Two types of ethnic mythomoteur 4 Class and ethnie in agrarian societies The problem of 'social penetration* Military mobilization and ethnic consciousness Two types of ethnie Ethnic polities 157 Autarchy and territorialization 161 Mobilization and inclusion 165 The new imagination 169 Legends and landscapes 174 Nostalgia and posterity 174 The sense of'the past' 177 Romantic nationalism as an 'historical drama' 179 Poetic spaces: the uses of landscape 183 Golden ages: the uses of history Myths and nation-building 200 T he genealogy of nations 209 Parmenideans and Heraclitans The 'antiquity' of nations T ranscending ethnicity? A world of small nations? Ethnic mobilization and global security Notes Bibliography Index Preface Recently there has been a growing convergence of interests among historians and social scientists, and the subject of their concerns has been the origins and shape of the modern world. After some decades of archival empiricism, on the one side, and abstract theorizing about 'society', on the other side, several sociologically minded historians and historically concerned sociolog ists have felt the need to bring the concerns and findings of their respective disciplines together in a concerted effort to trace the various aspects of the rise and nature of the modern world of capitalism, secularism and bureauc racy. In the work of E.