List of Illustrations Foreword to the Third Edition Preface Introduction Source Traditions Wilderness, Exoticism and the State’s Order: Medieval Views The Renaissance and Democratic Primitivism Anthropology and the Nation: Character and Climate in the Seventeenth Century Politics and the Nation: Patriotism and Democracy in Enlightenment Thought The Nation Empowered: Popular Sovereignty and National Unity in the French Revolution Culture and the Nation: Literature, the Public Sphere and Anti-French Relativism The Politics of National Identity Napoleon and the Rise of Political Romanticism Napoleon and the Rise of National Historicism Restoration and the Nation-State Nationalism as State Centralism Nationalism as Unification Nationalism as Separatism Identity Rampant The Nation’s Sources, the State’s Borders: Culture into Geopolitics The Nationalization of Culture Ethnic Nationalism and Racism Versailles and after Aftermath and Conclusions: Twentieth-Century Issues Taming National Sovereignty: Transnationalism and Internationalism Postnationalism Neonationalism: After the Cold War Beyond the Nation-State? Appendices Languages, Alphabets, Dialects and Language Politics Source References Bibliography Index