Nation-states and nationalisms epub free

Despite many predictions made over the last two hundred years that nation states and nationalism are transient phenomena that will eventually fade away the historical record and contemporary events show otherwise Nationalism still remains the most popular potent and resilient ideological discourse and the nation state the only legitimate mode of territorial rule This innovative and concise book provides an in depth analysis of the processes involved in the emergence formation expansion and transformation of nation states and nationalisms as they are understood today Sini a Male evi examines the historical predecessors of nation states from hunting and gathering bands through city states to modernizing empires and explores the historical rise of organizational and ideological powers that eventually gave birth to the modern nation state The book also investigates the ways in which nationalist ideologies were able to envelop the microcosm of family kin residential and friendship networks Other important topics covered along the way the relationships between nationalism and violence the routine character of nationalist experience and the impacts of globalization and religious revivals on the transformation of nationalisms and nation states This insightful analysis of nationalisms and nation states through time and space will appeal to scholars and students in sociology politics history anthropology international relations and geography Nation States and Nationalisms Organization Ideology and Solidarity