Becoming National: A Reader

A collection of readings on nationalism, each of which is introduced by a brief historical essay and fully annotated, this anthology strives to take the discussion beyond the classical argumentation and shift the focus to recent intellectual developments in the field. The editors, who are among the foremost authorities on the subject, have not overlooked familiar theorists like Fichte, Mazzini and Herder, but their emphasis is on recent thinkers, with Max Weber, Eric Hobsbawm, Paul Gilroy, Miroslav Hroch, Ernest Gellner, and David Held in the forefront.