http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2009/06/04#nationalism Origins. Spread. Effects. And religion. Attacks on it. And the <a href="novels.html">novel</a> --- Moses Hadas claims <a href="novels.html">Greek novels</a> were in part inspired by "our-glorious-national-past" romances of the peoples conquered by the Hellenistic empires; so e.g. Chinua Achebe would seem to be part of an exceedingly distinguished tradition. (And no one who compares <cite>Things Fall Apart</cite> to <cite>Daphnis and Chole</cite> can doubt the reality of progress in the fine arts.) <P>See also: <a href="peasant-revolts.html">Peasant Revolts, Insurgency, Counter-Insurgency</a>; <a href="revolution.html">Revolution</a> <ul>Recommended: <li>Benedict Anderson, <cite>Imagined Communities</cite> [Divide through for all the unfortunate little bits which he tacks on so that you know he's a Theoretically Sophisticated Western Marxist.] <li><a href="gellner.html">Ernest Gellner</a>, <cite>Nations and Nationalism</cite> [<a href="../reviews/nations-and-nationalism/">Review: Necessary Forged Papers</a>] <li>E. J. Hobsbawm, <cite>Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Program, Myth, Reality</cite> </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Ivan T. Berend, <cite>History Derailed: Central and Eastern Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century</cite> [<a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9496.html">Blurb and introduction</a>] <li>Adeed Dawisha, <cite>Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century</cite> <li>George M. Frederickson, <cite>The Comparative Imagination: On the History of Racism, Nationalism, and Social Movements</cite> [<a href="http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft9p300976">Free online</a>] <li>Emilio Gentile, <cite>Politics as Religion</cite> [<a href="http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/8195.html">Blurb, ch. 1</a>] <li>Peter Geschiere, <cite>The Perils of Belonging: Autochthony, Citizenship, and Exclusion in Africa and Europe</cite> [<a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=322215">blurb</a>] <li>Liah Greenfeld, <cite>Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity</cite> <li>Montserrat Guibernau, <cite>Nations without States: Political Communities in a Global Age</cite> <li>Ernest B. Haas, <cite>Nationalism, Liberalism, and Progress: The Rise and Decline of Nationalism</cite> <li>Stephen Howe, <cite>Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes</cite> [<a href="http://www.verso-nlr.com/versobooks/spring98list/howe_afrocentrism.html">Blurb</a>] <li>Harold Isaacs, <cite>Idols of the Tribe</cite> [ethnic chauvanism] <li>Kedourie, <cite>Nationalism</cite> <li>Pierre Manent, <cite>A World Beyond Politics? A Defense of the Nation-State</cite> [<a href="http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/8193.html">Blurb, intro</a>] <li>Michael Mann, <cite>The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing</cite> <li>Orlando Patterson, <cite>Ethnic Chauvinism</cite> <li>Pfaff, <cite>The Wrath of Nations</cite> <li>James Ridgeway, <cite>Blood in the Face: The Klu Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, and the Rise of a New White Culture</cite> <li>V. Tismaneanu, <cite>Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism, and Myth in Post-Communist Europe</cite> [<a href="http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/6280.html">blurb</a>] <li>Tzvetan Todorov, <cite>On Human Diversity: Nationalism, Racism, and Exoticism in French Thought</cite> <li>Maurizio Viroli, <citE>For Love of Country: An Essay on Patriotism and Nationalism</cite> <li>Robert Weinberg, <cite>Stalin's Forgtten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland. An Illustrated History, 1928--1996</cite> [<a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/7072.html">Blurb</a>] </ul>