David McCrone is Professor of Sociology, and Convener of the Unit for the Study of Government in Scotland, at Edinburgh University. His previous publications include Understanding Scotland: The Sociology of a Stateless Nation, also published by Routledge.

'...an impressive and extensively annotated bibliography or collection of reviews...this mostly theoretical survey contains some fascinating empirical material.' - Times Higher Education Supplement

• Preface 1 The fall and rise of nationalism 2 Tribe, place and identity: ethnicity and nationalism 3 Inventing the past: history and nationalism 4 ‘Devils at his back’: nationalism and Ernest Gellner 5 Nation as state: nationalism and state-building 6 Dialectic with the other: liberation nationalism in the twentieth century 7 In and out of the state: the rise and rise of neo-nationalism 8 The unforeseen revolution: post-communist nationalism 9 Nationalism and its futures