Reader Lists > Modern History (1800-1945)

Nationalism

recommended by Nino Gozalishvili

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    Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
    by Benedict Anderson

    Classics

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    Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity
    by Liah Greenfeld

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    The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism (Oxford Handbooks)
    by John Breuilly

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    Nations and Nationalism Since 1780, Second Edition: Programme, Myth, Reality (Canto Classics)
    by E. J. Hobsbawm

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    Nations and Nationalism (New Perspectives on the Past)
    by Ernest Gellner

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