# European Nations: Explaining Their Formation

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- Book: [European Nations: Explaining Their Formation](https://www.bookquiver.com/miroslav-hroch/european-nations-explaining-their-formation) ([European Nations: Explaining Their Formation.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/miroslav-hroch/european-nations-explaining-their-formation.md))
- Authors: [Miroslav Hroch](https://www.bookquiver.com/miroslav-hroch)
- Publisher: verso_books
- ISBN: 978-17-8168-834-2
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2015-04-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the history of modern political thought, no topics have attracted as much attention as nationalism, nation-formation, and patriotism. A mass of literature has grown around these vexed issues, muddying the waters, and a level-headed clarification is long overdue. Rather than adding another theory of nationalism to this maelstrom of ideas, Miroslav Hroch has created a remarkable synthesis, integrating apparently competing frameworks into a coherent system that tracks the historical genesis of European nations through the sundry paths of the nation-forming processes of the nineteenth century. Combining a comparative perspective on nation-formation with invaluable theoretical insights, European Nations is essential for anyone who wants to understand the historical roots of Europe’s current political crisis.