Nations before the nation-state : between city-state and empire from antiquity to the present /
"The first extended study of nationhood in ancient and medieval political thought, this book recovers a distinctly premodern conception of the nation as a cultural and linguistic, yet not political community, and brings historic insights to bear on contemporary political issues such as national...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- The nation-state paradigm
- A project of conceptual recovery
- Political imagination
- Liberal multiculturalism and constitutional patriotism
- Selection of sources and overview of the book
- Some preliminary conclusions
- What is a nation? A brief historiography of theories of the nation
- Romantic beginnings
- Classical modernism and the state
- The modernist bogeyman
- Ethno-symbolism and its critics
- Getting our history less wrong
- A tale of two fatherlands: Ancient conceptions of nationhood
- Ancient sources of Hellenicity
- Greek patriotism
- The bonds of humanity
- Roman citizenship and legal pluralism
- Nations in the vulgate
- Religion, law, and people-hood in biblical Judaea
- Post-Roman transitions: National identity in the wake of the empire
- Cassiodorus' imperial propaganda
- Ethnonyms and etymologies
- Isidore's appropriation of empire
- Historiography as political theory
- Medieval imperialism: National diversity and universal order
- World government and its alternatives
- Dante imagines the nation
- Humanity's intellectual unity
- Difference as punishment, difference as pleasure
- Consent as the foundation of empire
- Nationality and the medieval "state" in France
- Medieval international relations
- Dubois' .multinational vision for the Holy Land
- A pre-national defense of political particularism
- Participatory citizenship in the footsteps of Marsiglio of Padua
- Love for king and country
- The nation at a crossroads
- Absolute and limited government in the thought of John Fortescue
- Royal absolutism and the pursuit of uniformity
- Nationalizing the state, politicizing the nation
- One king, one law, one nation
- The myth of antiquity
- English exceptionalism revisited.