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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 2005 book engages with these questions by drawing on the expertise of leading medieval, early modern and modern historians.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Power and the Nation in European History
• Author: Len Scales
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 402
• EAN: 9780521608305
• ISBN: 0521608309
• ID: 01290930
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 634 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 153 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. June 2005

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