TY - BOOK ID - 2962628 TI - Power and the nation in European history AU - Scales, Len AU - Zimmer, Oliver PY - 2005 SN - 0521608309 0521845807 9780521608305 9780521845809 9780511614538 0511125542 9780511125546 0511125828 9780511125829 0511124961 9780511124969 0511614535 128020298X 9781280202988 1107152194 9781107152199 0511198671 9780511198670 0511299559 9780511299551 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Etat-Nation KW - Natie-staat KW - Natiestaat KW - Nation [Etat-] KW - Nation-state KW - National state KW - Nationale staat KW - Staat [Natie-] KW - Staat [Nationale ] KW - National state. KW - Nation KW - Europe KW - Politics and government. KW - History KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Histoire KW - Politics and government KW - Nation-state. KW - State, The KW - National interest KW - Self-determination, National KW - Politics KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Gay culture Europe KW - Europe - Politics and government UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2962628 AB - 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. ER -