Nationalism

Why do we live in nations, and why are we willing to die for them? Essential reading on how historians and others have tried to answer these questions from the nineteenth century to the present.

• Nationalism is a massively popular thematic course - driving issue in European history and one of the most powerful forces in the modern world.
• Highly topical issue - revival of nationalism in Eastern Europe in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, and success of political right in Western Europe
• Makes very complex subject accessible - most books on the subject are very difficult.
• Certain to be essential reading - key focus on the debates and historiography