John Breuilly is Professor of Nationalism and Ethnicity at the London School of Economics. He taught at Manchester University from 1972 until 1995 and at Birmingham University from 1995 until 2004. He has held visiting Professorships at the universities of Hamburg (1987-8) and Bielefeld (1992-3) and a Research Fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin (2001-2). Book publications include Austria, Prussia and Germany 1806-1871 (2002), Nationalismus und moderner Staat. Deutschland und Europa (1999), The Formation of the First German Nation-State, 1800-1871 (1996), and Nationalism and the State ([...]., 1993)

Introduction by John Breuilly.

Acknowledgements.

1. Definitions.

State and nation.

The nation.

2. Culture in Agrarian Society.

Power and culture in the agro-literature society.

The varieties of agrarian rulers.

3. Industrial Society.

The society of perpetual growth.

Social genetics.

The age of universal high culture.

4. The Transition to an Age of Nationalism.

A note on the weakness of nationalism.

Wild and garden culture.

5. What is a Nation.

The course of true nationalism never did run smooth.

6. Social Entropy and Equality in Industrial Society.

Obstacles to entropy.

Fissures and barriers.

A diversity of focus.

7. A Typology of Nationalisms.

The varieties of nationalist experience.

Diaspora nationalism.

8. The Future of Nationalism.

Industrial culture - one or many?.

9. Nationalism and Ideology.

Who is for Nuremberg?.

One nation, one state.

10. Conclusion.

What is not being said.

Summary.

Select bibliography.

Bilbliography of Ernest Gellner's writing: Ian Jarvie.

Index