The idea of the nation as a political community

Power and the Nation in European History

Volumn 9780521845809, Issue , 2005, Pages 54-66

  Reynolds, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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References (44)

1. Anthony D. Smith, ‘Nationalism’ (= Current Sociology 21/3, 1973), pp. 9-10.
2. What I call words, concepts, and phenomena are discussed in Charles K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, The Meaning of Meaning (London: Kegan Paul, 1923), pp. 13-15;
3. further discussions in e.g. John Lyons, Semantics (Cambridge University Press, 1977), vol. I, pp. 95-119, 175
4. Raymond Tallis, Not Saussure: A Critique of Post-Saussurean Literary Theory (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988), pp. 114-16.
5. As applied to medieval history: Ruth Schmidt-Wiegand, ‘Historische Onomasiologie und Mittelalterforschung’, Frühmittelalterliche Studien 9 (1982), 49-78;
6. Susan Reynolds, Fiefs and Vassals: the Medieval Evidence Reinterpreted (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), pp. 12-14.
7. Hugh Seton-Watson, Nations and States: An Enquiry into the Origins of Nations and the Politics of Nationalism (London: Methuen, 1982), p. 147, is useful on Nationalität.4 On the use of ‘state’ in medieval history see
8. S. Reynolds, ‘The historiography of the medieval state’, in Michael Bentley (ed.), Companion to Historiography (London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 117-38.
9. This seems to go back at least to Louis XIV:Hubert Me´thivier, Le siècle de Louis XIV (Paris: PUF, 1988), p. 3.
10. Anthony D. Smith, Myths and Memories of the Nation (Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 31, n. 25.
11. S. Reynolds, Kingdoms and Communities in Western Europe, 900-1300 (2nd edn, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) pp. 253-4.
12. Anthony D. Smith, Nationalism: Theory, Ideology, History (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001), p. 13.
13. The following paragraphs are based on Reynolds, Kingdoms and Communities, pp. xlv-lxii, 250-61, where fuller References are given.
14. Reynolds, Fiefs and Vassals.
15. Albert B. White, Self Government at the King’s Command: A Study in the Beginnings of English Democracy (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1933).
16. S. Reynolds, ‘Medieval origines gentium and the community of the realm’, History 68 (1983), 375-90, repr. in Reynolds, Ideas and Solidarities of the Medieval Laity (Aldershot: Variorum, 1995).
17. Archibald A, M. Duncan, The Nation of Scots and the Declaration of Arbroath (London: Historical Association, gen. ser. 75, 1970).
18. Stuart Woolf (ed.), Nationalism in Europe, 1815 to the Present: A Reader (London: Routledge, 1996), p. 2.
19. F. Graus, ‘Die Entstehung der mittelalterlichen Staat’, Historica 10 (1965), 5-65.
20. Anthony D. Smith, Theories of Nationalism (2nd edn, London: Duckworth, 1983), p. 188.
21. Anthony D. Smith, The Ethnic Origins of Nations (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986), pp. 23-30; with slightly varying definitions in Myths and Memories, p. 127;
22. The Nation in History (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000), p. 65;
23. Nationalism: Theory, Ideology, History, pp. 12-13.
24. František Graus, Die Nationenbildung der Westslawen im Mittelalter (Sigmaringen: Thorbecke, 1980)
25. B. Zientara, ‘Nationale Strukturen des Mittelalters’, Saeculum 32 (1981), 301-16;
26. L. E. Scales, ‘At the margin of community: Germans in pre-Hussite Bohemia’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th ser., 9 (1999), 327-52.
27. Colin Kidd, British Identities before Nationalism (Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 287.
28. Max Weber, Economy and Society, ed. and trans. G. Roth and C. Wittich (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978), p. 389 (Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft [5th edn, Tu¨bingen: Mohr, 1976], p. 237)
29. Margaret Canovan, Nationhood and Political Theory (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1996), p. 53; Roger Just, ‘Who are “we”?’, Times Literary Supplement, 8 May 1998, 11.
30. On stories of collective origin and history as reflecting current political situations see R. Finnegan, ‘A note on oral tradition and historical evidence’, History and Theory 9 (1970), 195-201
31. Jan Vansina, Oral Tradition as History (London: James Currey, 1985), pp. 19-24, 103-7
32. David P. Henige, The Chronology of Oral Tradition (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), pp. 47-8, 54-5, 105-18, 163-5. On the identity of people and territory
33. Raymond Firth, Primitive Polynesian Economy (2nd edn, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965), p. 39; and of people, territory and kingdom
34. Max Gluckman, ‘The Lozi of Barotseland’, in Elizabeth Colson and M. Gluckman (eds.), Seven Tribes of British Central Africa (London: Oxford University Press, 1951), pp. 1-93, at pp. 19-21.
35. A. Seal, ‘Imperialism and nationalism in India’, in John Gallagher et al. (eds.), Locality, Province and Nation: Essays in Indian Politics 1870 to 1940 (Cambridge University Press, 1973), pp. 1-27;
36. John Iliffe, A Modern History of Tanganyike (Cambridge University Press, 1979), pp. 8-10, 318-41, 485-90.
37. S. Reynolds, ‘Our forefathers? Tribes, peoples and nations in the age of migrations’, in Alexander C. Murray (ed.), After Rome’s Fall: Narrators and Sources of Early Medieval History. Essays Presented to Walter Goffart (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998), pp. 17-36, with references.
38. Hans Kohn, The Idea of Nationalism (New York: Macmillan, 1945), pp. 227-325. Despite his teleological concentration on the past of modern ‘nation-states’ and the unreality of his picture of the Middle Ages, which for long led me to discount him, Kohn seems to have treated this subject more seriously than later writers on nationalism.
39. OEuvres complètes, vol. 3, ed. Bernard Gagnebin et al. (Paris: Gallimard, 1964), pp. 169
40. (Discours sur l’origine de l’inegalitè, pt 2), 381-3, 386, 391 (Contrat social, 2.7, 8, 10)
41. F. M. Barnard, ‘National culture and political legitimacy: Herder and Rousseau’, Journal of the History of Ideas 44 (1983), 231-53.
42. Canovan, Nationalism, pp. 14-22, 101-2.
43. Oliver Zimmer, A Contested Nation: History, Memory and Nationalism in Switzerland, 1761-1891 (Cambridge: Past & Present Publications, 2003).
44. J. Breuilly, ‘Reflections on nationalism’, Philosophy of the Social Sciences 15 (1985), 65-73, repr. in Woolf (ed.), Nationalism, pp. 137-54.