Nations and nationalism / Ernest Gellner ; introduction by John Breuilly.

Definitions -- State and nation -- The Nation -- Culture in agrarian society -- Power and culture in the agro-literature society -- The varieties of agrarian rulers -- Industrial society -- The society of perpetual growth -- Social genetics -- The age of universal high culture -- The transition to an age of nationalism -- A note on the weakness of nationalism -- Wild and garden culture -- What is a nation -- The course of true nationalism never did run smooth -- Social entropy and equality in industrial society -- Obstacles to entropy -- Fissures and barriers -- A diversity of focus -- A typology of nationalisms -- The varieties of nationalist experience -- Diaspora nationalism -- The future of nationalism -- Industrial culture - one or many? -- Nationalism and ideology -- Who is for Nuremberg? -- One nation, one state.