Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Naturalisation of Nation-building in the Nineteenth Century: The Anomalies of Minority Nations -- Nationalism and the Modern Nation- state -- The Ethnic Intelligentsia and the 'Naturalisation' of the Nation-state -- Structuralist versus Hegelian Perspectives on the Nation-state -- Towards a Gramscian Model of Nation-building and Nationalism -- 2. English Nation-building and Seventeenth-century Ireland: The 'Fabulous Geographies' of Nation-building -- 'Fabulous Geographies' of Ireland in the Seventeenth Century -- Race-thinking and the English Mission Civilatrice in Seventeenth-century Ireland -- 'Pollution' through Miscegenation: Fear of the Native in Colonial Ireland -- 3. Political Arithmetic' and the Early Origins of Ethnic Minorities -- Race, Political Arithmetic and the Irish -- Ireland: English Colony or 'Home Country' of England? -- Representations of Ireland and the Irish in Colonial Art and History -- 4. Theorising the Nation: 'Peoplehood' and Nationhood as 'Historical Happenings' -- Nation as Construct -- Anderson 's Nation: An 'Imagined Community '? -- Hobsbawm 's Nation and the Nation in Ireland -- Wallerstein 's 'Peoplehood 'and Historical Constructs of Ulster and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century -- Nation, Place and Class in Nineteenth-century Ireland -- 5. Nationalising People, Places and Historical Records in Nineteenth-century Ireland -- Nationalist Myths and the Nationalisation of the Past -- Penal Laws and Nationalist History -- Plebeian Rebels: The Limits of Popular Protest in Nation- building Ireland -- 6. Social and Ethnic Collectivities in Nation-building Ireland -- 'Pirating 'the Nation -- Irish Nationalism and the Fragmentation of European Revolutionary Tradition -- Irish Nationalism: A Territorialising Force? -- Malthusian Defences of 'Vanishing' Ireland.

Nationalist Reactions to Irish Emigration -- 7. Pressing Home the Nation: Print Capitalism and 'Imagined Communities' in the Nineteenth Century -- Print Capitalism, Social Communication and Nation- building -- Press and Nation in Catholic Ireland -- 8. Pamphlet Wars and Provincial Newspapers in Protestant Ulster -- A Protestant Press for a Protestant People -- The Pamphlet War -- Unionisation of Ulster -- 9. The Surveillance State and the Imagined Community -- Mapping the Imagined Community of the Nation -- Maps as Images of the 'Imagined Community ' in Ireland -- Map-making as Cartographic Rebellion -- Mapping the Subject -- 10. Local Politics and Nation-building: The Grassroots of Nationalist Hegemony -- Towards a Gramscian Geography of Nationalist Hegemony -- The Nationalisation of Local Places -- Legitimising Nationalism: Local Custom versus Alien Rule -- Forging a National Imagination in Late Nineteenth-century Donegal -- The 'Natural Leaders' of the Nation -- Priestly Politics and Nationalist Hegemony in Donegal -- Bibliography -- Index -- Abdel-Malek, Anwar, 235 -- Abercorn, Duke of, 220 -- Absentee landlords 68-70 -- Academic nationalists 24-7 -- Agnew, John A. 24 -- Alien rule -- 254 -- 256 -- 270 -- Althusser, Louis 34 -- Andrew, Thomas 240 -- Anglicisation of Irish nation 60 -- Anti-Irish racism -- 54 -- 61-2 -- 161 -- 224 -- Arcadia 51 -- Art and the Celtic revival 152 -- Ascendancy academics 5 -- Australia 59 -- Babeuf, Francois-Noel 167 -- Balibar, Etienne 93 -- Banal nationalism 95 -- Barker, David 45 -- Basques -- 11 -- 13 -- 16 -- 17 -- 46 -- 62 -- 100 -- 103 -- Belfast, population growth by religious denomination 80 -- Bernal, J.D. 21 -- Bhabha, Homi 6 -- Big-nation nationalism -- 4 -- 10 -- 14 -- 60 -- 103 -- 127 -- 131 -- Black Americans 178 -- Board of Guardians 172 -- Boate, G. -- 48-50 -- 53 -- Bonner, Brian 251.

Brereton, William 48 -- Bretons 11 -- Bull, Phillip 165-6 -- Burma 228 -- Campion, Edmund 53 -- Canada -- 4 -- 21 -- Carson, Edward 227 -- Castle Catholics 151 -- Catalonia 100 -- Catholic newspapers -- 190-2 -- 199-202 -- 204-5 -- Catholic priests as organizational men 263-7 -- Catholics in selected occupations 264 -- Catholics -- and social progress -- and social progress, 9 -- and social progress, 9 -- and social progress, 57 -- and social progress, 57 -- and social progress, 58 -- and social progress, 58 -- and social progress, 132 -- and social progress, 132 -- and social progress, 224 -- and social progress, 224 -- and social progress, 240-1 -- and social progress, 240-1 -- Cecil, Hugh 159 -- Celtic Tiger 46 -- Charisma 106-7 -- Chichester, Arthur 252 -- Clark, Sam -- 18 -- 136 -- Colgan, John 250 -- Colletti, Lucio 33 -- Colonial Egypt 90 -- Colonialism -- 63 -- 76-80 -- Connolly, James -- 138 -- 236 -- Constitutional monarchy 167 -- Corkery, Daniel 248 -- Craig, James 216 -- Cromwellian Ireland -- 55 -- 69 -- Crowley, Marie Wilson 136 -- Czechoslovakia 118 -- Davies, Gordon L. Herries 232 -- Davis, Thomas -- 191 -- 235 -- De Arana, Sabino 255 -- De Paor, Maire 87 -- Derry, the 'Maiden City' 214-17 -- Dewey, Clive 156 -- Dillon, John, Blake 190 -- Disraeli, Benjamin 200 -- Doherty, Reverend James 245-6 -- Donegal -- 133 -- 243 -- 248 -- 257-61 -- Duffy, Charles Gavan -- 135-8 -- 146 -- Duncan, James 24 -- Dutch Republic 58 -- Eagleton, Terry 150 -- Earth science, and expansion of nation-state 44 -- East Timor 95 -- Economic viability of nations 43 -- Egypt 66 -- Elizabethan visitors to Ireland -- 45 -- 51-2 -- Enlightenment and state 168 -- Ethnic origins of nations, critique of 37 -- Ethnic revivals 37 -- Ethno-nationalist minorities, plight of 132 -- Ethnogenesis, process of 19 -- Fabulous Geographies, of colonial societies.

43 -- 52 -- 53 -- 65 -- Fahy, Reverend J. 246-8 -- Feminist geography 64 -- Fenianism 141 -- Fitzpatrick, David 18 -- Fitzpatrick, P.V. 107 -- Folk culture 143 -- France -- 15 -- 20 -- 28 -- 58 -- 62 -- 99 -- French Revolution -- 168 -- 170 -- Friel, Brian 229 -- Fromm, Erich 12 -- Frontier development in late medieval Europe 78 -- Gaelic Ireland, society and economy -- 57-8 -- 67 -- Gaelic lordships -- 77 -- 149 -- Gellner, Ernest -- 3 -- 30 -- 35 -- 91 -- 245 -- Gemeinschaften 125 -- Genovese, Eugene D. 41 -- Geological Survey 234 -- German unification -- 10 -- 15 -- 22 -- Gernon, Luke -- 46-7 -- 89 -- Gillespie, Raymond -- 57 -- 89 -- Golden Age 142 -- Good, James Wender 222-4 -- Gramsci on hegemony 41-2 -- Gramsci, Antonio -- 3 -- 6 -- 36 -- 38-42 -- 154 -- Gramscian geography of nationalism -- 190 -- 242-5 -- Great War -- 25 -- 177 -- Green, Alice Stopford 237 -- Griffith, Richard 230 -- Gwynn, Stephen 253 -- Gypsies -- 29 -- 52 -- Harkin, Michael -- 252 -- 254 -- 258-60 -- Harrison, J. 17 -- Harvey, David 99 -- Hayes, Carleton 12 -- Hechter, Michael -- 23 -- 35 -- 46 -- Hegelianism -- 32 -- 35 -- 195 -- Hidden Ireland 75 -- Hiring fairs 180 -- Historical bloc 155 -- Hobsbawm on nation-state -- 101-6 -- 169-71 -- Hobsbawm, Eric -- 101-9 -- 111-15 -- 120 -- Hroch, Miroslav 197 -- Hungary 26 -- Imagined Community -- 4 -- 94-100 -- 171-2 -- India 14 -- Inishowen 252 -- Invented traditions 91 -- Ireland -- 217-18 -- 220-4 -- As 'barbarous' place, 47 -- As 'barbarous' place, 55 -- As 'barbarous' place, 67 -- As 'barbarous' place, 71 -- As 'barbarous' place, 86 -- As 'home country' of England, 76-82 -- Representations in English colonial art, 82-90 -- Irish Catholic Truth Society 248-50 -- Irish Famine 175 -- Irish nationalists -- 13 -- 33 -- Irish newspapers -- growth of 190-4 -- Italy -- 10 -- 15 -- 26 -- 28 -- 30 -- 58 -- 99 -- Jacobins 146.

Johnson, Nuala 251 -- Kant, Immanuel 11 -- Kedourie, Elie -- 11 -- 12 -- Kenny, Mary 240-1 -- Kickham, Charles 206 -- Kiernan, Victor 83 -- Kipling, Rudyard 71-2 -- Kohn, Hans -- 11 -- 12 -- Kosovo -- 95 -- 121 -- Kropotkin, Peter 25 -- Kurds 52 -- Laggan Valley 247 -- Laissez faire policy 184 -- Land War 266 -- Landed aristocracy -- 51 -- 142 -- 162 -- 255 -- Landscape as 'sacred' -- 253 -- 261 -- 265 -- 271 -- Landscape painting 84 -- Lecky, G.A. 247 -- Legg, Marie L. 207-9 -- Levi, Carlo 249 -- Lloyd, David 45 -- Local custom -- 254-6 -- 270 -- Local heroes 144 -- Londonderry, Marquis of 219 -- Lords of Humankind 129 -- Magdoff, Harry 76 -- Malthusianism -- 178 -- 183 -- Mapping the subject 236-8 -- Marxism 33-4 -- Mazzini, Giuseppe -- 113 -- 170 -- Mc Clintock, Anne -- 53 -- 64 -- Medhurst, Ken 16 -- Middle Age -- territorial organisation 75 -- Military conquest, of Ireland and Caribbean world 56 -- Mill, John Stuart 131 -- Miller, Kerby A. 185 -- Mills, C. Wright -- 14 -- 110 -- 140 -- Minority nationalisms -- 11 -- 16 -- 129 -- 132 -- Moryson, Fynes -- 49 -- 50 -- 51 -- 81 -- Munter, R. 203 -- Nairn, Tom -- 6 -- 35 -- 112 -- Nation-building -- and 'New Catholics', 153 -- and bourgeois hegemony, 17-20 -- and bourgeois hegemony, 30 -- and bourgeois hegemony, 198 -- and bourgeois hegemony, 268 -- and carrying capacity of environment, 71 -- and environmental politics, 79-81 -- and fragmentation of European Enlightenment tradition, 26 -- and fragmentation of European Enlightenment tradition, 168-71 -- and frontier expansion, 61 -- and indigenous minorities, 63 -- and lebensraum, 174 -- and lebensraum, 246 -- and marginalisation of minority peoples, 6 -- and marginalisation of minority peoples, 132 -- and nationalisation of place, 245-7 -- and popular protest, 156-61 -- and print capitalism, 188-93 -- and print capitalism, 205-9.

and provincial press, 207.