The Endurance of Nationalism

Aviel Roshwald is Professor of History at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He is the author of The Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). His previous publications include Estranged Bedfellows: Britain and France in the Middle East during the Second World War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990) and Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires: Central Europe, Russia and the Middle East, 1914-1923 (London: Routledge, 2001). He is co-editor, with Richard Stites, of European Culture during the Great War: The Arts, Entertainment, and Propaganda, 1914-1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

• Introduction; 1. Nationalism in antiquity; 2. The nation in history and the curved arrow of time; 3. Violation and volition; 4. Chosenness and mission; 5. Kindred blood, mingled blood - ethnic and civic frameworks of national identity; Conclusion; Bibliography.

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