No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.


Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality, Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed. 2012, p. 12 - Nations and nationalism since 1780 programme, myth, reality (1992)

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No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently...

No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently...

No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently...

No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently...