Volume 1; Part I. The Politics of Ethnicity, Nationhood and Belonging in the Settings of Classical Civilizations: 1. Nationality and ethnicity in the ancient near east; 2. Nationhood: was there such a thing in antiquity?; 3. The holy Roman empire; 4. Ancient China; 5. Politicized ethnicity in pre-colonial Southeast Asia; 6. 'India' before the Raj: space and identity in south Asian history; Conclusion to Part I; Part II. Paradigm Shifts and Turning Points in the Era of Globalization (1500 to the Present): 7. Colonial expansion and the making of nations: the Spanish case; 8. The reformation and national identity; 9. Europe's eighteenth century and the quest for the Nation's origins; 10. Empire, war and racial hierarchy in the making of the Atlantic revolutionary nations; 11. The rise of the Charismatic nation: Romantic and Risorgimento nationalism (Europe, 18001914); 12. Revolution and independence in Spanish America; 13. A tale of two cities: the American civil war; 14. The cycle of inevitability in imperial and republican identities in China; 15. Colonial subjects and the struggle for self-determination, 18801918; 16. The First World War; 17. Anticolonialism and Nationalism in the French empire; 18. Patriotism in the second world war: comparative perspectives on countries under axis occupation; 19. Decolonization and the cold war; 20. 1968: the death of nationalism?; Conclusion to Part II; Index; Volume 2; Part I. Imperial and Post-Colonial Settings: 1. Building nation-empires in the eighteenth-century Iberian Atlantic; 2. Nations and nationalisms in the late Ottoman empire; 3. The Dutch empire; 4. The Habsburg monarchy; 5. The British empire; 6. The French empire; 7. Germany as a 'Global nation':18401930; 8. The Russian and Soviet empire; 9. The Japanese empire; 10. American internationalism; 11. The Indian subcontinent: from Raj to partition; 12. Middle Eastern and North African nationalisms; 13. Sub-saharan Africa; 14. Bringing empires back in: the imperial origins of nations in Indochina; Conclusion to Part I; Part II. Transnational and Religious Missions and Identities: 15. Liberalism and nationalism: trajectories of an entangled relationship; 16. Marxism and the national question; 17. The Catholic Church; 18. Islam and nationalism; 19. On Jewish nationhood and nationalism: a historical survey from antiquity to the establishment of the state of Israel; 20. Buddhism; Conclusion to Part II; Part III. Intersections: National (Ist) Synergies and Tensions With Other Social, Economic, Political and Cultural Categories, Identities and Practices: 21. Self-determination and national sovereignty; 22. Citizenship and nationhood: from antiquity to Gaia citizenship; 23. Religion and nationhood; 24. Nationalism and capitalism; 25. Economic nationalism in an imperial age, 18461946; 26. National identity and the idea of race in the dinaric region; 27. Nationalism, Ethnic cleansing and genocide: a view from below; 28. Warfare, nation-formation and the legitimacy of states: an ethno-symbolic perspective; 29. Nationalism, terrorism, and the state: historical perspectives; 30. Negotiating national identity through tourism in colonial South Asia and beyond; 31. Gendered nations and institutions; 32. Historiographies and commemorative practices; 33. Nation and literature; 34. Food ways and nationhood; 35. The dynamics of national music: opera and classical music in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; 36. Media and nationalism: Europe and the US, 15002000; Conclusion to Part III; Index.