'Daniele Conversi is to be warmly congratulated on producing this edited volume; allowing the contributors too debate with each other, as it were, around the theme of the primordial roots of the very modern phenomena of  nations an nationalism raises many questions, suggests some highly relevant answers, and points the way to fruitful new research on this vital dimensions of social and political life. '    (Stephen Barbour, University of East Anglia) {full review here]
 

'In the first book-length treatment of Walker Connor's ideas on nationalism, the editor Daniele Conversi persuasively argues that, to a lesser or greater extent, we are all Connorian in our approaches to the study of nationalism. When we dismiss dogma of economism in explaining nationalism, or insist that nationalism is inseparably linked to the rise of modernity, or when we recognize the non-rational side of nationalism - we do so on Connorian grounds. Hence, Connor is not only a great iconoclast of common approaches to nationalism, but also a very influential theorist of nationalism in his own right. This insight is shared by other authors in this deftly edited collection of essays on Walker Connor and the study of nationalism. They all agree that Walker Connor's ideas remain highly relevant, and that we may disagree with Connor, but only at the peril of misinterpreting the phenomenon of nationalism.'(Dejan Guzina, Center for the Study of Democracy, Political Studies Review) [full review here]

'This is truly an excellent book, and certainly a welcomed addition to ongoing debates about the continuing power of nationalism. It would be most appropriate in a graduate seminar and to specialists in nationalism research.' (Jeffrey J. Cormier, Kingís College, University of Western Ontario, Canadian Journal of Sociology Online)
 
 
 
 
 

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