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New entries in the history of nationalism have, as the saying goes, tough acts to follow. Titles like Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities, Eric Hobsbawm’s Nations and Nationalism, or Hans Kohn’s The Idea of Nationalism have become canonical texts and had no serious challengers in recent years. Azar Gat’s Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism rises to this implicit challenge with confidence and a fair amount of success. Computer Graphics By Rajiv Chopra Pdf Printer. Gat is Ezer Weitzman Professor and chair of the history department at Tel Aviv University, as well as being the author of several previous books, including War in Human Civilization and Victorious and Vulnerable: Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How It Is Still Imperilled.
He credits Alexander Yakobsen with co-authorship of Nations, citing conversations (‘His [Yakobsen’s] wisdom and brilliance are unmatched‘) (foreword) over a number of years that resulted in Gat writing the present volume. Ghost Stories Album Zip. Gat himself places this work in the canon of nationalist studies that begins, loosely speaking, with Ernest Renan’s 1882 essay What is a nation? International 20th-century events like the two world wars kept general interest in the subject alive, since it seemed to offer a way of explaining the otherwise inexplicable; more local incidents, such as the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, also guaranteed attention from scholars in neighboring states. However, explaining how nationalism works – why nationalist feeling flares in one place and not another; why it thrives under certain conditions in one country and dies in another under the exact same conditions – brings to mind the allegorical blind men describing an elephant.
Every part is vital to the whole picture but no part is or can be the whole picture. Attempts to synthesize a holistic view of nationalism are usually only partially successful due to the sheer number of elements that can go to make up nationalist feeling in any one location.
Any theory which accounted for them all would make for an unreadably long book and contain so many qualifying clauses as to be a little ridiculous. Gat uses Nations as an opportunity to synthesize and critique the dominant theories of nationalism that developed between the late 19th and the late 20th centuries.
By selecting this wide time span, he has the opportunity to engage with a range of scholars, including Anthony Smith, Walker Connor, Tom Nairn, Pierre van den Berghe, Eric Hobsbawm, Karl Deutsch, Ernest Gellner, Liah Greenfield, and Benedict Anderson. Gat is highly critical of most of these sources, despite – or perhaps because of? – their hallowed place in the canon of nationalist studies.