Book Summary
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.
Book Details
| Book Name | Nations Before Nationalism |
| Author | John A. Armstrong |
| Publisher | University Of North Carolina Press (Jan 1982) |
| ISBN | 9780807896075 |
| Pages | 447 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 1554 |
