| List of Figures | p. viii |
| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Introduction: New Millennium, Old Nationalisms? | p. xi |
| The plurality of nationalisms | p. xi |
| Structure of the study | p. xii |
| Reaching beyond Western approaches | p. xiv |
| Nations and Nationalisms Historically | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Nationhood and language | p. 3 |
| The universal nations of antiquity | p. 5 |
| The Roman Empire and the church in the development of nations | p. 8 |
| Renaissance and national awakenings | p. 14 |
| The Westphalian state system | p. 25 |
| A new way to nationhood: the US | p. 28 |
| The French Revolution and liberal nationalism | p. 30 |
| The ascendance of economic and illiberal nationalisms | p. 35 |
| Nationalism before and after the Second World War | p. 37 |
| Nationalisms Conceptually | p. 40 |
| The concept of nation | p. 40 |
| The idea of nationality | p. 42 |
| The concept of the nation-state | p. 44 |
| The concept of national identity | p. 45 |
| The principle of national self-determination | p. 48 |
| The meaning of nationalism | p. 50 |
| Typologies of nationalism | p. 52 |
| Schools of nationalism | p. 58 |
| Home Writ Large: Nationalism and the Maintenance of Empire | p. 65 |
| The character of empires | p. 66 |
| RUSSIA: Russian nationalism and the imperial idea | p. 70 |
| Contemporary discourses on Russian identity | p. 76 |
| Russian nationalists right and left | p. 79 |
| Challenges from within the new Russian empire | p. 82 |
| Russia's view of home | p. 85 |
| INDIA: Thesis-antithesis: the British empire and Indian nationalism | p. 86 |
| Institutionalizing Indian nationalism | p. 88 |
| Gandhi, the national movement, and Muslim nationalism | p. 90 |
| Hindu nationalism triumphant | p. 92 |
| The Indian empire and subnationalist challenges | p. 95 |
| Secular pretensions, religious realities | p. 99 |
| Home Writ Small: Nationalisms of Separatist Movements | p. 103 |
| South Africa: Secession in a new democracy | p. 106 |
| The Zulu kingdom | p. 107 |
| Transition to democracy and ethnic politics | p. 110 |
| Competing visions in Zulu politics | p. 116 |
| Conclusions on Zulu separatism | p. 118 |
| Canada: Quebec's struggle for sovereignty | p. 118 |
| The bases of Quebec nationalism | p. 121 |
| Institutionalizing nationalism | p. 125 |
| Legal challenges to Quebec's right to secede | p. 128 |
| Reimagining Quebec | p. 132 |
| Conclusions on Quebec nationalism | p. 136 |
| Uninational Homes: Right-Wing Nationalism | p. 137 |
| Reactionary forms of nationalism | p. 137 |
| Germany: Sources of right-wing extremism | p. 138 |
| Backlash against anti-nationalism | p. 141 |
| Becoming 'foreign' or reclaiming the German home? | p. 143 |
| Political parties of the right | p. 149 |
| Shock troops of the right | p. 151 |
| Conclusions on the German radical right | p. 153 |
| Israel: Right-wing fundamentalism | p. 154 |
| Zionism, nationalism, fundamentalism | p. 155 |
| Constructing Israel historically and conceptually | p. 158 |
| Right-wing organizations | p. 161 |
| The right's grip on power | p. 164 |
| Rabin and the right | p. 165 |
| Conclusions on the Israeli right | p. 169 |
| Transnational Homes: Pan-Nationalisms | p. 171 |
| The Islamic Umma: (Mis)understanding the Islamic world | p. 172 |
| The polycentrism of Islam | p. 176 |
| Islam's radical leaders | p. 179 |
| (Ab)uses of the Other | p. 182 |
| Conclusions on Islam as transnational community | p. 185 |
| Latin America: Identity and anti-Americanism | p. 185 |
| Continental nationalism in Latin America | p. 187 |
| The beginnings of anti-Americanism | p. 188 |
| The rise and decline of anti-Americanism | p. 191 |
| Conclusions on anti-Americanism | p. 194 |
| Nationalisms, Homes, and Hostilities | p. 196 |
| Westerncentricity | p. 196 |
| The link between home and hostility | p. 199 |
| The multicultural threat | p. 203 |
| Notes | p. 206 |
| Bibliography | p. 237 |
| Index | p. 242 |
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