The Nation in History : The Living Room

Foreword vii Yosef Kaplan Introduction 1(4) Voluntarism and the Organic Nation 5(22) Organic and Voluntarist Nationalism 6(4) Cultural Determinism and the Political Ideal 10(5) Ethnic and Civic Nations 15(6) Cultural Primordialism 21(4) Conclusion 25(2) The Nation: Modern or Perennial? 27(25) The Modernist Orthodoxy 27(3) Modernist Historiography 30(4) The Perennialist Critique 34(1) Continuous Perennialism 35(5) Recurrent Perennialism 40(1) Ancient Nations? 41(9) Conclusion: Problems with Perennialism 50(2) Social Construction and Ethnic Genealogy 52(27) Invented Traditions, Imagined Communities 53(8) A Critique of Social Constructionism 61(1) An Ethnosymbolic Account of Nations and Nationalism 62(14) Conclusion 76(3) Notes 79(10) Bibliography 89(12) Index 101