Front Cover -- Nationalism and Modernism -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The modernist paradigm -- The rise and decline of nationalism? -- The rise and decline of modernism? -- Aims and plan -- 1 The rise of classical modernism -- The roots of classical modernism -- The classical modernist paradigm of nationalism -- Part I Varieties of modernism -- 2 The culture of industrialism -- 'Nation' and 'nationalism' -- Agroliterate and industrial societies -- From 'low' to 'high' cultures -- Nationalism and industrialism -- Nationalism and 'high cultures' -- Nationalism and public education -- Nationalism and historical continuity -- Nationalism and the ethnic past -- 3 Capitalism and nationalism -- Imperialism and uneven development -- Populism and romanticism -- 'Nationalism-producing' development? -- The social base of nationalism -- Internal colonialism -- Ethno-regionalism -- Elite strategies of 'rational choice' -- Interest and passion -- 4 State and nation -- Sources of political modernism -- The reflexive state -- The nation beyond the state -- Nations and the inter-state order -- The state and war -- A political theory of nationalism? -- State and society: bridging the gulf? -- Identity and politics -- Intellectuals and nationalist ideology -- Political modernism and ethnic history -- Conclusion -- 5 Political messianism -- 'Political religion' -- Marginal youth -- The cult of the 'dark gods' -- A millennial opiate -- Colonialism and the intellectuals -- Millennialism and progress -- The religion of history -- 6 Invention and imagination -- Inventing nations -- Ethnic and civic nationalisms? -- 'Proto-national' bonds -- The nation as construct? -- Imagining the nation -- An imagined community? -- Print-capitalism and re-presentation -- Mass self-sacrifice -- Part II: Critics and alternatives.

7 Primordialism and perennialism -- Primordialism I: inclusive fitness -- Primordialism II: cultural givens -- The instrumentalist critique -- Perennialism I: ethnic continuity -- Perennialism II: perennial ethnicity, modem nations -- The psychology of ethnic affiliation -- The immemorial nation? -- 8 Ethno-symbolism -- 'Old, continuous' nations -- Pre-modern nations? -- Cultural and political nationalism -- Myth-symbol complexes -- A framework of national emergence -- Culture and the border -- 'Dual legitimation' -- Ethnies and ethno-symbolism -- Origins and types of nation -- Ethno-symbolism considered -- 9 Beyond modernism? -- Polyethnicity, past and future -- The post-national agenda -- Fragmentation and hybrid identities -- Gender and nation -- Liberalism and civic or ethnic nationalism -- Nationalism and globalisation -- National identity and supra-nationalism -- Beyond modernism? -- Conclusion: problems, paradigms and prospects -- Problems -- Paradigms -- Prospects -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.