Short description:

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

Long description:

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.

With this volume, John Coakley truly establishes himself as a leading authority in the field of nationalism studies. The book presents one of the first comprehensive overviews of this burgeoning discipline. The text is richly embroidered with examples from all parts of the world which bring the connections between concepts to life
Eric Kauffmann
University of London

Students of Irish politics have long benefited from John Coakley's erudition. Now students of nationalism and ethnicity can avail of his meticulous scholarship. Coakley has that rare gift: the ability to relay difficult subjects clearly without sacrificing nuance. This book will undoubtedly become the standard bearer in the field
Dr Mary-Alice Connolly Clancy
University of Exeter

This is a remarkably serious and multifaceted synthesis of the literature on nationalism from a comparative historical perspective.
Michael Hechter
Arizona State University

Coakley provides a wide-ranging and knowledgeable account of the elements which go into the making of national identity. Coakley offers a penetrating analysis of what enables or prevents nationalism moving from programmes to political organisations to popular movements to state power and finally the use of that power for nationalist projects.
John Breuilly
London School of Economics

Table of Contents:

Introduction
The Study of Nationalism
Introduction
Matters of Definition
Matters of Evaluation
Matters of Analysis
Conclusion
PART ONE: NATION AND SOCIETY
Nationalism, Race and Gender
Introduction
Race and Nation
Gender and Nation
Conclusion
Nationalism and Language
Introduction
Language and Its Nature
Language and Politics
Language and Nation
Conclusion
Nationalism and Religion
Introduction
Religion and Its Nature
Religion and Politics
Religion and Nation
Conclusion
Nationalism and History
Introduction
The Writing of History
Nationalist History
History and the Nation
Conclusion
Nationalism and Public Culture
Introduction
Material Culture and the Nation
The Arts and the Nation
Sport and the Nation
Conclusion
PART TWO: NATIONALIST MOBILIZATION
Nationalism and Social Structure
Introduction
Class and Nation
Socioeconomic Change and Nationalism
Region and Nation
Conclusion
Types of Nationalist Mobilization
Introduction
Common Features
Intergrationist Nationalism
Colonial Nationalism
Separatist Nationalsm
Conclusion
Explaining Nationalism
Introduction
The Birth of Nationalism
The Growth of Natioalsm
The Victory of Nationalism
Conclusion
Nationalism and State Structure
Introduction
Suppressing Minorities
Incorporating Minorities
Conclusion
CONCLUSION
Nation and State in Perspective
Introduction
Reassembling the Argument
Speculating About the Future
Conclusion