This collection brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to offer perspectives on national identity formation in various European contexts betw

The traditional view of the Scottish nation holds that it first arose during the Wars of Independence from England in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. A

A groundbreaking study of the foundations of nationalism, exposing its antiquity, strong links with ethnicity and roots in human nature.

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