Reimagining the nation-state : the contested terrains of nation-building /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mac Laughlin, Jim
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2001.
Subjects:	Ireland > Politics and government > 19th century. National characteristics, Irish > History > 19th century. Nationalism > Ireland > History > 19th century. Irish question.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
The naturalisation of nation-building in the nineteenth century : the anomalies of minority nations
English nation-building and seventeenth-century Ireland
'Political arithmetic' and the early origins of ethnic minorities
Theorising the nation :'peoplehood' and 'nationhood' as 'historic happenings'
Nationalising people, places, and historical records in nineteenth-century Ireland
Social and ethnic collectivities in nation-building Ireland
Pressing home the nation : print capitalism and 'imagined communities' in the nineteenth century
Pamphlet wars and provincial newspapers in Protestant Ulster
The surveillance state and the imagined community
Local politics and nation-building : the grassroots of nationalist hegemony.