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Author Rocker, Rudolf, 1873-1958.

Title Nationalism and culture / Rudolf Rocker ; translated by Ray E. Chase.

Imprint Montréal : Black Rose, c1998.

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  320.54 ROC    Check Shelf
Description 592 p. ; 23 cm.
Note Translated from the German.
Includes index.
"Black Rose Books No. AA263"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references: p. 557-566.
Contents Book one. Preface to the English edition -- Translator's preface -- The insufficiency of economic materialism -- Religion and politics -- The middle ages : church and state -- Power versus culture -- The rise of the national state -- The Reformation and the new state -- Absolutism-an obstacle to economic development -- The doctrine of the social contract -- Liberal ideas in Europe and America -- Liberalism and democracy -- German philosophy and the state -- Democracy and the national state -- Romanticism and nationalism -- Socialism and the state -- Nationalism-a political religion. Book two. The nation as community of morals, custom and interest -- The nation as community of language -- The nation in the light of modern race theories -- Political unity and the evolution of culture -- Political decentralization in Greece -- Roman centralization and its influence -- National unity and the decline of culture -- The national state and the development of science -- Architecture and nationality -- Art and the national spirit -- Social problems of our time -- Epilogue to the second American edition.
Summary This is a detailed and scholarly study of the development of nationalism and the changes in human cultures from the dawn of history to the present day and an analysis of the relations of these to one another.
Subject Nationalism.
Culture.
Culture. (OCoLC)fst00885059
Nationalism. (OCoLC)fst01033832
Other Form: Online version: Rocker, Rudolf, 1873-1958. Nationalism and culture. Montréal : Black Rose, 1998 (OCoLC)679451680
ISBN 1551640945 (pbk.) :
9781551640945
1551640953 (bound) :
9781551640952
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