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Late medieval Germany: an under-Stated nation?

Scales, L.E.

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Oliver Zimmer
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Abstract

The following text is taken from the publisher's website. "Few would doubt the central importance of the nation in the making and unmaking of modern political communities. The long history of 'the nation' as a concept and as a name for various sorts of 'imagined community' likewise commands such acceptance. But when did the nation first become a fundamental political factor? This is a question which has been, and continues to be, far more sharply contested. A deep rift still separates 'modernist' perspectives, which view the political nation as a phenomenon limited to modern, industrialised societies, from the views of scholars concerned with the pre-industrial world who insist, often vehemently, that nations were central to pre-modern political life also. This book represents the first attempt to engage with these questions by drawing on the expertise of leading medieval, early modern and modern historians."

Citation

Scales, L. (2005). Late medieval Germany: an under-Stated nation?. In L. Scales, & O. Zimmer (Eds.), Power and the nation in European history (166-191). Cambridge University Press

Publication Date Jun 1, 2005
Deposit Date Mar 16, 2009
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 166-191
Book Title Power and the nation in European history.
Keywords Politics, Nationhood, Identity, State.
Publisher URL http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/european-history-general-interest/power-and-nation-european-history?format=PB
Additional Information © Cambridge University Press 2005.

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