… political and that nations and national states have existed since the beginning of statehood
millennia ago. He traces the deep roots of ethnicity and nationalism in … ethnicity and ethnic …

… , top-down model of nationalist incitement is as fatuous as single-… nationalist’, and the view
that nations and nationalism are … high on the ideological-political agenda of our times’ (16). …

1. Introduction: is nationalism recent and superficial?; 2. The evolution of kinculture communities;
3. From tribes to statehood; 4. Premodern ethne, peoples, and nations around the world…

… roots of the nation and of politicized ethnicity. On one hand, Connor emphasizes the ties of
descent that underpin the political solidarity of ethnic … of a large, genetically diverse nation (5–…

… has hardly been free from appeals to ethnic nationalism. An … explain because the deeper
roots lie in political economy not … rooted in relatively ancient histories and in perduring ethnic …

… nations and nationalism are not just sociohistorical constructs, but rather a product or sum of
deeprooted kinships that have their own historical … that "ethnicity has always been political" (…

… ethnic nationalism, asserting, similarly to Anthony Smith, that nations are easiest to build when
the state has a large ethnic … civic nationalism could be true, he argues, only if ethnicity was …

… and ethnic nationalisms has … and ethnic nationalism. Claiming Rousseau, at least in part,
for Enlightenment rationalism, and for his version of civic nationalism, Kohn insists that "a nation …

… were distinctive ethnic units and protonations long before the rise of nationalism as well. …
While Connelly convincingly demonstrates the enormous force of ethnic nationalism, Smith …

… wax most lyrical about their own nation. We can succinctly define the political ideology of
nationalism as one which claims that there exists a unique nation, that this nation has a special …