Introduction: From the Moment of Social History to the Work of Cultural Representation

Geoff Eley

Ronald Grigor Suny

I. A Classical Statement

What Is a Nation?

Ernest Renan

II. Where Do Nations Come From? The Social Construction of Nationality

From National Movement to the Fully-Formed Nation: The Nation-Building Process in Europe

Miroslav Hroch

Scotland and Europe

Tom Nairn

The Origins of Nations

Anthony D. Smith

The Nation From: History and Ideology

Etienne Balibar

Historicizing National Identity, or Who Imagines What and When

Prasenjit Duara

Peasants and Danes: The Danish National Identity and Political Culture

Uffe Ostergard

The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism

Yuri Slezkine

III. Colonialism, Race, and Identity

Census, Map, Museum

Benedict Anderson

``No Longer in a Future Heaven'': Nationalism, Gender, and Race

Anne McClintock

Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers: European Identities and the Cultural Politics of Exclusion in Colonial Southeast Asia

Ann Stoler

Basques, Anti-Basques, and the Moral Community

Marianne Heiberg

Ethnicity: Identity and Difference

Stuart Hall

One Nation Under a Groove: The Cultural Politics of ``Race'' and Racism in Britain

Paul Gilroy

The Ambiguities of Authenticity in Latin America: Dona Barbara and the Construction of National Identity

Julie Skurski

IV. Beyond the Nation

The Decline of the Nation State

David Held

National Identity and Socialist Moral Majority

Renata Salecl

The Nation-State and Its Others: In Lieu of a Preface

Khachig Tololyan

National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity among Scholars and Refugees

Liisa Malkki

No Place like Heimat: Images of Home(land) in European Culture

David Morley

Kevin Robins

Rac(e)ing the Nation: Is There a German ``Home''?

Jeffrey M. Peck

The Theory of Infantile Citizenship

Lauren Berlant

Index