Louis L. Snyder was appointed a Full Professor at The City University of New York in 1953 and retired to Princeton, New Jersey in 1977 with a total of forty-four years of teaching. His books include The Meaning of Nationalism, German Nationalism, The War: A Concise History, 1939-1945, The World in the Twentieth Century, and The Making of Modern Man.John D. Montgomery, director of the Pacific Basin Research Center of Soka University of America, is also Ford Foundation Professor of International Studies, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is the author of Forced to Be Free, The Artificial Revolution in Germany and Japan, The Politics of Foreign Aid: American Experience in Southeast Asia, and Aftermath: Tarnished Outcomes of American Foreign Policy.

"The book is the mature fruit of much research and much thought. [It] will be an indispensable guide not only for the student of contemporary history and international relations but also for the statesman who has to deal with these problems and to learn that they are of an importance far beyond all divisions of ideology or civilization."—Hans Kohn

• Preface to the Transaction Edition 1. Nationalism in the Modern World 2. Paradoxes of Nationalism 3. Characteristics of the New Nationalism 4. Classification: Projection of a Typology 5. Fissiparous Nationalism: European Phases 6. Black Nationalism: The African Experience 7. Anticolonial Nationalism: Asian Trends 8. Politico-religious Nationalism: The Middle East 9. Populist Nationalism in Latin America 10. Melting-Pot Nationalism: The United States 11. Messianic Nationalism: The Soviet Dilemma 12. Nationalism and Supranationalism 13. Retrospect and Prospect.

Louis L. Snyder was appointed a Full Professor at The City University of New York in 1953 and retired to Princeton, New Jersey in 1977 with a total of forty-four years of teaching. His books include The Meaning of Nationalism, German Nationalism, The War: A Concise History, 1939-1945, The World in the Twentieth Century, and The Making of Modern Man.John D. Montgomery, director of the Pacific Basin Research Center of Soka University of America, is also Ford Foundation Professor of International Studies, Emeritus, at Harvard University. He is the author of Forced to Be Free, The Artificial Revolution in Germany and Japan, The Politics of Foreign Aid: American Experience in Southeast Asia, and Aftermath: Tarnished Outcomes of American Foreign Policy.

"The book is the mature fruit of much research and much thought. [It] will be an indispensable guide not only for the student of contemporary history and international relations but also for the statesman who has to deal with these problems and to learn that they are of an importance far beyond all divisions of ideology or civilization."—Hans Kohn

• Preface to the Transaction Edition 1. Nationalism in the Modern World 2. Paradoxes of Nationalism 3. Characteristics of the New Nationalism 4. Classification: Projection of a Typology 5. Fissiparous Nationalism: European Phases 6. Black Nationalism: The African Experience 7. Anticolonial Nationalism: Asian Trends 8. Politico-religious Nationalism: The Middle East 9. Populist Nationalism in Latin America 10. Melting-Pot Nationalism: The United States 11. Messianic Nationalism: The Soviet Dilemma 12. Nationalism and Supranationalism 13. Retrospect and Prospect.