Nations and Identities Classic Readings [Paperback]

This anthology brings together selections from some of the most significant writings on the idea of national identity over the last 400 years and includes important contributions to contemporary debates in the social sciences and postcolonial studies.Acknowledgments.

Introduction: Vincent P. Pecora.

Part I: Inventing the Modern State:.

1. Leviathan (1651): Thomas Hobbes.

2. Two Treatises of Government (1690): John Locke.

Part II: From Divine to Human History:.

3. The New Science (1725; 1744): Giambattista Vico.

4. The Spirit of the Laws (1748): Charles Louis de Secondat (Baron de Montesquieu).

5. The Social Contract, Origin of Inequality, and Government of Poland (1754-72): Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

6. Dissertations on Ossian (1763): James Macpherson.

7. Ideas for a Philosophy of History of Mankind (1784-91): Johann Gottfried von Herder.

8. Discourse on the Hindus (1786): Sir William Jones.

9. Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790): Edmund Burke.

Part III: The Spirit of a People:.

10. Study on Sovereignty (Composed 1793-8; First Published 1884): Joseph de Maistre.

11. Addresses to the German Nation (1808): Johann Gottlieb Fichte.

12. The Philosophy of History (1830-1): G. W. F. Hegel.

13. The Inequality of Human Races (1854): Arthur de Gobineau.

14. Considerations on Representative Government (1861): John Stuart Mill.&ló‡