
Author/Contributor(s): | Balakrishnan, Gopal; Anderson, Benedict; Acton, Lord; Bauer, Otto; Breuilly, John |
Publisher: | Verso |
Date: | 11/13/2012 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Condition: | NEW |
Opening with powerful statements by Lord Acton and Otto Bauer – the classic liberal and socialist positions, respectively – Mapping the Nation presents a wealth of thought on this issue: the debate between Ernest Gellner and Miroslav Hroch; Gopal Balakrishnan’s critique of Benedict Anderson’s seminal Imagined Communities; Partha Chatterjee on the limitations of the Enlightenment approach to nationhood; and contributions from Michael Mann, Eric Hobsbawm, Tom Nairn, and Jürgen Habermas.