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Nations Before Nationalism : UNC Press Enduring Editions - John A. Armstrong

Nations Before Nationalism

By: John A. Armstrong

Paperback | 15 January 2011

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In search of an explanation of how a sense of ethnic identity evolves to create the concept of nation, Armstrong analyzes Islamic and Christian cultures from antiquity to the nineteenth century. He explores the effects of institutions - the city, imperial polity, bureaucratic imperatives of centralization, and language divisions - on the development of ethnicity. Political science furnishes the focus, anthropology and sociology provide the conceptual framework, and history affords the evidence.

Originally published 1982.

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