Aviel Roshwald is Professor of History at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He is the author of The Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). His previous publications include Estranged Bedfellows: Britain and France in the Middle East during the Second World War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990) and Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires: Central Europe, Russia and the Middle East, 1914-1923 (London: Routledge, 2001). He is co-editor, with Richard Stites, of European Culture during the Great War: The Arts, Entertainment, and Propaganda, 1914-1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Introduction
1. Nationalism in antiquity
2. The nation in history and the curved arrow of time
3. Violation and volition
4. Chosenness and mission
5. Kindred blood, mingled blood - ethnic and civic frameworks of national identity
Conclusion
Bibliography.
Introduction; 1. Nationalism in antiquity; 2. The nation in history and the curved arrow of time; 3. Violation and volition; 4. Chosenness and mission; 5. Kindred blood, mingled blood - ethnic and civic frameworks of national identity; Conclusion; Bibliography.
