Nationalism and Modernism

Smith explores the essencial arguments of the major recent theoretical interpretations of nationalism, from the modernist approaches of Gellner, Nairn, Breuilly, Giddens and Hobsbawm to the alternative paradigms of van den Berghe and Geertz, Armstrong and Smith and the contributions of such historians, sociologists and political scientists as Seton-Watson, Reynolds, Hastings, Horowitz, Connor and Brass.