Table of Contents

Detailed Contents vi

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction 1

1 What is National Identity? 9

2 National Identity, Devolution and Secession 33

3 The Impact of Migration on National Identity 58

4 On European Identity 89

5 Rethinking American Identity 119

6 Reactions to the End of ‘Pure’ National Identities 138

7 National Identity versus Cosmopolitan Identity 159

Conclusion 189

Notes 197

References and Bibliography 210

Index 226

About the Author

Montserrat Guibernau isProfessor of Politics at Queen Mary, University of London.

Reviews

"Guibernau paints a broad panorama of national identities and their political mobilization in North America and Western Europe and argues for a “cosmopolitan nationalism” that reconciles moral universalism with a sense of national belonging. The Identity of Nations is an important and thoughtful contribution to current debates on multiculturalism, the rise of the radical right and the relation between national, European and global identities."
Rainer Bauböck, European University Institute, Florence

"Montserrat Guibernau brings together a vast experience of the study of nationalism and national identity. Since her original work on Nations without States, based upon her experience of her native Catalonia, she has gone on to study these topics in a variety of situations, especially in the United Kingdom and Canada. This book brings together her perceptive conclusions."
John Rex, University of Warwick

"The Identity of Nations is a trenchant analysis of the nature of national identity and contemporary challenges to its continued primacy by a scholar with impeccable credentials."
Walker Connor, Middlebury College