TY - JOUR
AU - Smith,Anthony D.
AB -  Introduction: Ethnicity and Nationalism SAGE Publications, Inc.1992DOI: 10.1177/002071529203300101 Anthony D.Smith THE LAST TWENTY YEARS, Professor Eric Hobsbawn tells us in his recent book, Nations and Nationalism since 1780, (1990) have seen more genuinely illuminating works on nations and nationalism-and, he might have added, on ethnic identity-than the whole preceding century. Whether this is really the case remains in dispute, given the contributions of not only Carlton Hayes and Hans Kohn, which he records, but also those of Karl Deutsch (1966), Elie Kedourie (1960), Louis Snyder (1954) and J.H. Kautsky (1962), to name but a few. What, I think, distinguishes the last twenty years from earlier periods in the study of nationalism is the growing convergence of two fields, which had been formerly treated as separate: the study of ethnicity and ethnic community, and the analysis of national identity and nationalism. The former had been largely the preserve of anthropologists and social psychologists, and had focused on small-scale communities, often in Third World areas. The latter had been the province of historians, for whom the ideology (and ethics) of nationalism was paramount. Nationalism was seen as a 'force', non-logical if not irrational, one which swept away traditional barriers and 
TI - Introduction: Ethnicity and Nationalism
JF - International Journal of Comparative Sociology
DO - 10.1177/002071529203300101
DA - 1992-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/introduction-ethnicity-and-nationalism-3r808kOMlj
SP - 1
VL - 33
IS - 1-2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -