Miroslav Hroch
Ashgate
Hardback
336
2007
The two main themes of this selection of articles by Professor Hroch are the process of nation formation during the 19th century and the social and political aspects of the transition from a pre-modern feudal and traditional society to a modern capitalist one and the uneven pace of this change in the West and East of Europe. The author argues that we cannot study the process of nation-formation as a mere product of some nebulous 'nationalism' we have to understand it as a part of social and cultural transformation.