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That's too bad, because Liah Greenfeld's Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity is a timely and fascinating study of what the author sees as the defining characteristic of our time. "The old society," Greenfeld writes," was replaced with a new one, based on the principle of nationality...
What we all consider modern times, according to Greenfeld, is a result of nationalism, an ideology which emerged in the 17th century and eventually organized the world into a jigsaw puzzle of nation-states. For Greenfeld, it is not industrialism, capitalism or communism that necessarily made the world as it is, but nationalism which preceeded them and set the stage for their emergence...
Unlike the established literature on nationalism, Greenfeld's Nationalism does not opt for the short compact theses of scholars such as Benedict Anderson (Imagined Communities) and Ernest Gellner (Nations and Nationalism) but rather delves into the particulars of five nations in a search for the driving forces behind nationalism. Greenfeld devotes a chapter each to England, France, Russia, Germany and America, and concludes that there is no one nationalism, but that there are "nationalisms...
...fact, Greenfeld jokingly says, "when I typed the word 'nationalisms' my spell checker wouldn't recognize it. My computer tried to tell me that there is only 'nationalism' and 'nationalist,' but that there is no such thing as 'nationalisms...
...Greenfeld proves her computer wrong through immaculate historical research and theoretical and psychological analysis. She presents an elaborate and quite long (about 500 pages) study of the different sorts of nationalisms that characterize the modern world...