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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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Catalonia and the ‘Idea of Europe’ Competing Strategies and Discourses within Catalan Party Politics

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A Cultural Interpretation of the Genocide Convention

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Shaking Up Japan: Edo Society and the 1855 Catfish Picture Prints

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