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Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. By E. J. Hobsbawm. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 191p. 39.50.

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This article is published in American Political Science Review.The article was published on 1991-09-01. It has received 2906 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nationalism.

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Getting to Know the Unknown Soldier: Official Nationalism in Liberal Costa Rica, 1880–1900

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Prologue: The paradoxes of American insularity, exceptionalism and imperialism

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Which flag? which country? : an Australian dilemma, 1901-1951

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