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Power and the Nation in European History
Len ScalesOliver Zimmer
出版Cambridge University Press, 2005-06-09
主題History / Europe / GeneralHistory / Social HistoryHistory / Europe / MedievalHistory / Europe / Renaissance
ISBN11394447279781139444729
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=iv41_FKFfUQC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Few would doubt the central importance of the nation in the making and unmaking of modern political communities. The long history of 'the nation' as a concept and as a name for various sorts of 'imagined community' likewise commands such acceptance. But when did the nation first become a fundamental political factor? This is a question which has been, and continues to be, far more sharply contested. A deep rift still separates 'modernist' perspectives, which view the political nation as a phenomenon limited to modern, industrialised societies, from the views of scholars concerned with the pre-industrial world who insist, often vehemently, that nations were central to pre-modern political life also. This book engages with these questions by drawing on the expertise of leading medieval, early modern and modern historians.