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This exciting new textbook is the first to offer students a truly comprehensive and engaging account of the vibrant topic of Nationalism.

This exciting new book is the first to offer a truly comprehensive account of the vibrant topic of nationalism.

Packed with a series of rich, illustrative examples, the book examines this powerful and remarkable political force by exploring:

– Definitions of nationalism

– Language and nationalism

– Religion and Nationalism

– Nationalist history

– The social roots of ideologies and the significance of race, gender and class

– Nationalist movements, from dominant majorities to peripheral minorities socio-economic and sociological perspectives

– State responses to nationalism

Supported by a number of helpful illustrations, tables and diagrams, the text is both engaging and highly informative.

Nationalism, Ethnicity and the State: Making and Breaking Nations will prove an insightful read for both undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers in the area of Politics and International Relations.