This exciting new book is the first to offer a truly comprehensive account of the vibrant topic of nationalism.

Packed with a series of rich, illustrative examples, the book examines this powerful and remarkable political force by exploring:

- Definitions of nationalism

- Language and nationalism

- Religion and Nationalism

- Nationalist history

- The social roots of ideologies and the significance of race, gender and class

- Nationalist movements, from dominant majorities to peripheral minorities socio-economic and sociological perspectives

- State responses to nationalism

Supported by a number of helpful illustrations, tables and diagrams, the text is both engaging and highly informative.

Nationalism, Ethnicity and the State: Making and Breaking Nations will prove an insightful read for both undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers in the area of Politics and International Relations.