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Faith in Nation: Exclusionary Origins of Nationalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2004

Nadia Urbinati
Nadia Urbinati
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Columbia University
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Faith in Nation: Exclusionary Origins of Nationalism. By Anthony W. Marx. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 288p. $26.00.

This is a bold and challenging study of European nationalism based on the following thesis: Nationalism was a phenomenon of state building that predated the eighteenth-century starting point favored by most scholars and whose genesis was elite pragmatism and popular mobilization. Moving the origins of nationalism back to the sixteenth (and even late fifteenth) century allows Anthony Marx to make two arguments, one explanatory and the other evaluative. Of the two, the former seems to be more persuasive.

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BOOK REVIEWS: POLITICAL THEORY
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , September 2004 , pp. 574 - 575
Copyright
© 2004 American Political Science Association

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