{"product_id":"nations-before-the-nation-state-between-city-state-and-empire-from-antiquity-to-the-present-paperback-softback-9781009441254","title":"Nations before the Nation-State; Between City-State and Empire from Antiquity to the Present (Paperback \/ softback) 9781009441254","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNations before the Nation-State\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBetween City-State and Empire from Antiquity to the Present\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNovel approach to the problem of nationalism through an extended study of the nation in ancient and medieval political thought.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnna Marisa Schön (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009441254, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 21 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.1 x 1.4 cm, 0.35 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Schon's conceptual history presents meticulous historical details, and her thorough and incisive analysis of the historical thinkers' written outputs also situates the thinkers' theoretical contributions in their respective intellectual and sociological contexts. Schon's effort to decentre the nation-state will be of interest to historians, political theorists and International Relations scholars. Overall, this book is a valuable contribution to the historical recovery of global thought on political community-building at various scales beyond the nation-state.' Annie Hsu, International Affairs\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThroughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, thinkers understood nations as communities defined by common language, culture, and descent, and sharing strong bonds of belonging and solidarity. Even so, they did not assume that nations would also be appropriate units of government. The recovery of this historical understanding, in turn, yields valuable insights for contemporary political dilemmas. Nations Before the Nation-State offers the first extended study of the idea of the nation in ancient and medieval political thought. It recovers a pre-modern conception of the nation as a cultural and linguistic community, rather than a political association, and examines better means for thinking about nationhood. Offering a historic perspective from which to address challenges of nationalism, this book engages with debates on multiculturalism, liberal nationalism, and constitutional patriotism and argues that contemporary political dilemmas can be resolved more organically by recovering modes of thinking that have resolved similar tensions for centuries.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Introduction: A Plan for Rethinking the Nation: 1. The nation-state paradigm\u003cbr\u003e 2. A project of conceptual recovery\u003cbr\u003e 3. Political imagination\u003cbr\u003e 4. Liberal multiculturalism and constitutional patriotism\u003cbr\u003e 5. Selection of sources and overview of the book\u003cbr\u003e 6. Some preliminary conclusions\u003cbr\u003e Part II. What Is a Nation? A Brief Historiography of Theories of the Nation: 1. Romantic beginnings\u003cbr\u003e 2. Classical modernism and the state\u003cbr\u003e 3. The modernist bogeyman\u003cbr\u003e 4. Ethno-symbolism and its critics\u003cbr\u003e 5. Getting our history less wrong\u003cbr\u003e Part III. A Tale of Two Fatherlands: Ancient Conceptions of Nationhood: 1. Ancient sources of Hellenicity\u003cbr\u003e 2. Greek patriotism\u003cbr\u003e 3. The bonds of humanity\u003cbr\u003e 4. Roman citizenship and legal pluralism\u003cbr\u003e 5. Nations in the vulgate\u003cbr\u003e 6. Religion, Law, and Peoplehood in Biblical Judaea\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Post-Roman Transitions: National Identity in the Wake of the Empire: 1. Cassiodorus' imperial propaganda\u003cbr\u003e 2. Ethnonyms and etymologies\u003cbr\u003e 3. Isidore's appropriation of empire\u003cbr\u003e 4. Historiography as political theory\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Medieval Imperialism: National Diversity and Universal Order: 1. World government and its alternatives\u003cbr\u003e 2. Dante imagines the nation\u003cbr\u003e 3. Humanity's intellectual unity\u003cbr\u003e 4. Difference as punishment, difference as pleasure\u003cbr\u003e 5. Consent as the foundation of empire\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Nationality and the Medieval 'State' in France: 1. Medieval international relations\u003cbr\u003e 2. Dubois' multinational vision for the holy land\u003cbr\u003e 3. A pre-national defense of political particularism\u003cbr\u003e 4. Participatory citizenship in the footsteps of marsiglio of Padua\u003cbr\u003e 5. Love for king and country\u003cbr\u003e Part VII. The Nation at a Crossroads: 1. Absolute and limited government in the thought of John Fortescue\u003cbr\u003e 2. Royal absolutism and the pursuit of uniformity\u003cbr\u003e 3. Nationalizing the state, politicizing the nation\u003cbr\u003e 4. One king, one law, one nation\u003cbr\u003e 5. The myth of antiquity\u003cbr\u003e 6. English exceptionalism revisited\u003cbr\u003e Part VIII. Conclusions: Rekindling Ancient and Medieval Concepts: 1. Lessons from imperialism\u003cbr\u003e 2. The opening and closure of political life\u003cbr\u003e 3. We are bundles of hyphens\u003cbr\u003e 4. New quests for solidarity\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political science \u0026amp; theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political science \u0026amp; theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20science%20\u0026amp;%20theory%20%5BJPA%5D%22\"\u003eJPA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52470069526808,"sku":"9781009441254","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009441254i.jpg?v=1785631226","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/nations-before-the-nation-state-between-city-state-and-empire-from-antiquity-to-the-present-paperback-softback-9781009441254","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}