CONTENTS
Acknowledgments = ⅷ
Introduction / Vincent P. Pecora = 1
Part Ⅰ Inventing the Modern State = 43
1 Leviathan(1651) / Thomas Hobbes = 45
2 Two Treatises of Government(1690) / John Locke = 50
Part Ⅱ From Divine to Human History = 55
3 The New Science(1725 ; 1744) / Giambattista Vico = 57
4 The Spirit of the Laws(1748) / Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu = 60
5 The Social Contract ; The Origin of Inequality ; and The Government of Poland(1754 - 72) / Jean-Jacques Rousseau = 73
6 Dissertations on Ossian(1763) / James Macpherson = 82
7 Ideas for a Philosophy of History of Mankind(1784 - 91) / Johann Gottfried von Herder = 87
8 Discourse on the Hindus(1786) / Sir William Jones = 93
9 Reflections on the Revolution in France(1790) / Edmund Burke = 100
Part Ⅲ The Spirit of a People = 105
10 Study on Sovereignty( composed 1793 - 8 ; first published 1884) / Joseph de Maistre = 107
11 Addresses to the German Nation(1808) / Johann Gottlieb Fichte = 114
12 The Philosophy of History(1830 - 1) / G. W F. Hegel = 128
13 The Inequality of Human Races(1854) / Arthur de Gobineau = 131
14 Considerations on Representative Government(1861) / John Stuart Mill = 142
15 Nationality(1862) / John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton = 149
16 To the Italians(1871) / Giuseppe Mazzini = 156
17 What is a Nation?(1882) / Ernest Renan = 162
18 Our America(1891) / Jos e' Mart i' = 177
19 The Jewish State(1896) / Theodor Herz1 = 185
20 The Conservation of Races(1897) / W. E. B. Du Bois = 190
21 Foundations of the Nineteenth Century(1899) / Houston Stewart Chamberlain = 200
Part Ⅳ Nations at the End of Empires = 205
22 Home Rule ; Enlightened Anarchy ; and National Language(1909-39 ) / Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi = 207
23 The Right of Nations to Self-Determination(1914) / V. I. Lenin = 220
24 Addresses : The Fourteen Points ; and The League of Nations(1918, 1919) / Woodrow Wilson = 229
25 Aims and Objects of Movement for Solution of Negro Problem(1924) / Marcus Garvey = 236
26 The Myth of the Twentieth Century(1930) / Alfred Rosenberg = 241
27 Three Guineas(1938) / Virginia Woolf = 248
28 Discourse on Colonialism(1955) / Aim e' C e' saire = 253
29 On National Culture(1959) / Frantz Fanon = 264
Part Ⅴ Contemporary Perspectives = 277
30 The Integrative Revolution : Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States(1963) / Clifford Geertz = 279
31 Nations and Nationalism(1983) / Ernest Gellner = 292
32 Imagined Communities(1983) / Benedict Anderson = 309
33 The Riddle of Midnight : India,August 1987 / Salman Rushdie = 318
34 The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question(1987) / Partha Chatterjee = 325
35 The Origins of Nations(1989) / Anthony D. Smith = 333
36 A Knd of Scar : The Woman Poet in a National Tradition(1989) / Eavan Boland = 354
37 Narrating the Nation(1990) / Homi K. Bhabha = 359
38 Cu1ture and Imperialism(1993) / Edward W. Said = 364
Index = 370
