Nationalism /
Peter Alter
- 2nd ed.
- London : Arnold, 1994.
- viii, 140 p. ; 24 cm.
English translation c1989 by Edward Arnold First published in Great Britain 1989 First published under the title Nationlismus
Preface. - 1. What is Nationalism? 1. Problems of Definition. 2. The Nation as Central Value. 3. Cultural Nations and Political Nations. 4. National Consciousness and Nation-Building. - 2. Emancipation and Oppression: Towards a Typology of Nationalism. 1. The Spectrum of Historical Experience. 2. Risorgimento Nationalism. 3. Reform Nationalism. 4. Integral Nationalism. 4.1. The Roots of Integral Nationalism and its Organizational Forms. 4.2. Integral Nationalism and the Political Environment. 5. National Socialism in Germany. - 3. Risorgimento Nationalism in Europe. 1. Nationalism in the Age of the French Revolution. 2. The 'National Awakening' of the European Peoples. 3. The Spread and Organization of Risorgimento Nationalism. 4. The Social Structure of Risorgimento Nationalism. 5. Social Change as a Condition of National Movements. 6. Risorgimento Nationalism and its Enemies. - 4. The Nation-State as a Form of Political Organization. 1. The Plurality of States and the Nation-State Principle. 2. Stages in the Formation of European Nation-States. 3. The Boundaries of the German Nation-State. 4. Nation-States and Multinational States. 5. Decolonization. 6. Is the Nation-State an Anachronism? - 5. The Renaissance of Nationalism. 1. Nationalism and the Nation in Post-War Europe. 2. Regionalism in Western Europe. 3. Nationalism after Communism in Eastern Europe. 4. Nationalism in the Third World. 5. The Poverty of Nationalism. - Select Bibliograpby. - Index.