The English word nation from Middle English c. 1300, nacioun "a race of people, large group of people with common ancestry and language," from Old French nacion "birth (naissance), … 展开

The existence of Medieval nations
The broad consensus amongst scholars of nationalism is that nations are a recent phenomenon. However, some historians argue that their existence … 展开

There are three notable perspectives on how nations developed. Primordialism (perennialism), which reflects popular conceptions of nationalism but has largely fallen out of favour among academics, proposes that there have always been nations and that … 展开

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In his article, "The Mosaic Moment: An Early Modernist Critique of the Modernist Theory of Nationalism", Philip S. Gorski argues that the first modern nation-state was the Dutch Republic, created by a fully modern political nationalism rooted in the model of biblical … 展开

There is an ongoing debate about the future of nations − about whether this framework will persist as is and whether there are viable or … 展开

• Anderson, Benedict (1983). Imagined Communities. London: Verso Books.
• Gellner, Ernest (1983). Nations and Nationalism. Cambridge: Blackwell.
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