"This book offers the most up-to-date survey of current perspectives and debates in the fields of nations and nationalism. It brings together a group of leading scholars in each of the sub-fields who offer a comprehensive approach to the study of nationalism. The authors represent a variety of outlooks which include history, sociology, politics, gender studies and ethnography while providing a wide coverage in historical and geographical terms." This volume will be indispensable for anyone interested in the phenomenon of nationalism today and will be widely recommended on courses in politics, sociology and related disciplines.