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