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Amazon logo Smith, Anthony. Nationalism and Modernism. New York, NY: Routledge, 1998. ISBN: 9780415063418.

Amazon logo Snyder, Jack. From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2000. ISBN: 9780393048810.

Amazon logo Kymlicka, Will. Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780199240982.

Amazon logo Horowitz, Donald. Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780520053854.

Amazon logo Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780801492631.

Amazon logo Tilly, Charles. Coercion, Capital, and European States. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 2007. ISBN: 9781557863683.

Amazon logo Herbst, Jeffrey. States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780691010281.

Amazon logo Brubaker, Rogers. Nationalism Reframed. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780521576499.

Amazon logo Greenfeld, Liah. Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780674603196.

Amazon logo Chatterjee, Partha. Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World. London, UK: Zed Books for the United Nations University, 1986. ISBN: 9780862325534.

Amazon logo Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities. New York, NY: Verso, 1991. ISBN: 9780860915461.

Amazon logo Robinson, Dean E. Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780521626279.



Readings by Session



WEEK #TopicsREADINGSREADING QUESTIONS
1Introduction: Objectives and Requirements of the Course
2Nationalism and Ethnicity: Primordial or Constructed?Amazon logo Smith, Anthony. Nationalism and Modernism. New York, NY: Routledge, 1998, Introduction, chapters 1, 7, and 8. ISBN: 9780415063418.

Amazon logo Horowitz, Donald. Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985, chapters 1, and 2. ISBN: 9780520053854.

Amazon logo Patterson, Orlando. "Context and Choice in Ethnic Allegiance." In Ethnicity: Theory and Experience. Edited by Nathan Glazer, and Daniel Moynihan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975, pp. 305-349. ISBN: 9780674268562.
The principal cleavage among theorists of ethnic and national identities is between those who posit that such identities are enduring and culturally based and those who view them as constructions and instruments for gain, without deep roots. In what ways are nationalist and ethnic sentiments derived from cultural cleavages between groups? In what ways are they rational responses to immediate and identifiable incentives? And if such identities are constructed, who (or what) constructs them and why?
3Democratization and NationalismAmazon logo Greenfeld, Liah. Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007, Introduction, chapters 1, 4, and 5. ISBN: 9780674603196.

Amazon logo Snyder, Jack. From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2000, chapters 1-4. ISBN: 9780393048810.

Amazon logo Horowitz, Donald. Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985, chapter 7. ISBN: 9780520053854.
What is the connection between democratization and nationalism? What determines whether democratic nationalism emerges in civic or ethnic form? What effects do different electoral arrangements have on ethnic politics and relations in democracies?
4Economic Modernization as a Determinant of NationalismAmazon logo Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983, chapters 2, 3, 4, and 8. ISBN: 9780801492631.

Amazon logo Horowitz, Donald. Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985, chapter 3. ISBN: 9780520053854.

Amazon logo Mann, Michael. "The Emergence of Modern European Nationalism." In Transition to Modernity: Essays on Power, Wealth and Belief. Edited by John Hall, and I. C. Jarvie. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780521382021.
Industrialization, colonization, and sudden economic change have all been linked to either the creation of modern nationalism or with more recent nationalist mobilization. What are the connections between economic change and nationalism?
5War, State-Building, and NationalismAmazon logo Tilly, Charles. Coercion, Capital, and European States. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 2007, chapters 3, 4, and 7. ISBN: 9781557863683.

Amazon logo Finer, Samuel. "State and Nation-Building in Europe: The Role of the Military." In The Formation of National States in Western Europe. Edited by Charles Tilly. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975. ISBN: 9780691007724.

Evera, Stephen Van. "Hypotheses on Nationalism and War." International Security 18, no. 4 (Spring 1994): 5-39.
What is the connection between war, the state, military mobilization and nationalism?
6Nationalism and the Modern StateAmazon logo Herbst, Jeffrey. States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780691010281. (Entire)

Amazon logo Brubaker, Rogers. Nationalism Reframed. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1996, Introduction, chapters 1, 2, and 4. ISBN: 9780521576499.
Nationalism is arguably indispensable to state-building. It can also be an underlying source of state collapse. Under what conditions has nationalism been a force in state-building or in state collapse?
7The Nation in Words: Language as a Source and Conduit of NationalismAmazon logo Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities. New York, NY: Verso, 1991. ISBN: 9780860915461. (Entire)

Amazon logo Snyder, Jack. From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2000, chapter 5. ISBN: 9780393048810.
Language and narrative have been theorized to contribute to nationalist thought and practice in two ways. First, a common language helps to create a sense of "people-hood." Second, nationalist narratives are often communicated in ways to create and/or entrench nationalist sentiment. Means of modern communication, e.g. printing presses, radio, television as well as public educational institutions create and spread national narratives. How do such technologies and public institutions do what they purportedly do? What is the role of intellectuals? Do they (meaning intellectuals) impose the national narrative on the masses or do the masses create and act upon their own?
8Class Presentations of Research Paper Proposals
9Religious Nationalism: A Contradiction in Terms?Amazon logo God's Peoples: Covenant and Land in South Africa, Israel, and Ulster. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992, chapters 1-3, 7, 10, and 12. ISBN: 9780801427558.

Amazon logo The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994, chapters 1-2. ISBN: 9780520086517.
Do religious beliefs change either the tone and/or nature of nationalist politics? If so, in what ways and of how much significance and/or consequence?
10Post-Colonial Nationalisms: Does their Rootedness in Colonialism Matter?Chatterjee, Partha. Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World. London, UK: Zed books for the United Nations University, 1986, chapters 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6. ISBN: 0862325528.

Amazon logo Snyder, Jack. From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2000, chapter 6. ISBN: 9780393048810.
How are non-European nationalisms different from and similar to those of Europe? What are the material and ideational relationships between European and non-European nationalisms?
11New World Nationalisms: The Triumph of Civic Nationalism?Amazon logo Kymlicka, Will. Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001, chapters 1, 5, 8, and 10-15. ISBN: 9780199240982.

Walzer, Michael. "What does it Mean to be an American?" Social Research 57, no. 3 (Fall 1990).

Amazon logo Robinson, Dean E. Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780521626279. (Recommended)

Faust, Drew Gilpin. The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. (Recommended)
There is a strong, often unstated, presumption that the liberal democracies of the New World (principally the U.S. and Canada) have somehow gotten it right. How accurate and what is the basis of that assessment?
12Class Presentation of Research Papers

 








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