Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface: field experience and social theory -- Introduction: western concepts and non-western realities -- A critique of the Eurocentric theory of nationalism -- Methodology for voluntaristic theory -- Some correlates of the Third World concept -- Towards a new definition of Third World nationalism -- A sociological definition of nationalism -- The stages of proto-nationalism: tribalism, ethnicity and patriotism -- Political evolution and concomitant types of social consciousness -- Patriotism and nationalism differentiated -- Political feudalism and state formation in the Third World -- Social structure of the nation: the ordering principle of national attributes -- Race and language as means of cultural differentiation -- Society and nation -- The pattern of nation formation in the Third World -- The evolution of religious sects and the emergence of national identities -- National identity in the context of multiple identities -- The domestication of world religions and the origins of national identities -- The sacralization of race and territory: clues to emotionalism in nationalism -- Modern nationalism and egalitarian ideology -- Traditional and modern nationalisms differentiated -- Intellectual mobilization and the diffusion of political consciousness in society -- Imperialism and the objectification of social self-hood -- The politics of nationalism: mass mobilization, linguistic transformation and nationalist movements -- Social carriers of nationalist ideas -- Linguistic transformation and social communication -- The state and national economy -- Nationalist and social movements differentiated -- The mechanism of mass mobilization: symbol manipulation and identity assertion -- Brahminic symbols and Hindu nationalism.

'The true Muslim' myth and Jihad in Arab nationalism -- Uncertain counterracialism in African nationalism -- Territoriality and power in Han nationalism -- Peasant culture and mass nationalism -- Nationalism as social power: restructuring egalitarian systems -- Fascist tendency in the structure of nationalism: race -- Nationalism's normative legacy: freedom and equality -- State nationalism and regional organization -- The monoethnic state and polyethnic social system: the rise of ethnic nationalism -- Ethnic identity and the monoethnic state -- National integration and the rise of ethnic nationalism -- The 'modernization' of ethnicity -- Social prerequisites of ethnic nationalism -- Conclusion: cultural differentiation and political rationalization -- The paradigm and prediction -- Epilogue: the rise of Slavic nationalisms and the collapse of transnational ideocracy -- The Nature of Slavic nationalism -- Tradition in the family -- Russofication and non-Russian identities -- References -- Index.