Nationalism in a global era : the persistence of nations / edited by Mitchell Young, Eric Zuelow and Andreas Sturm.

First published in 2007. This paperback edition frst issued in 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The owl's early flight : globalization and nationalism, an introduction / Eric Zuelow, Mitchell Young and Andreas Sturm -- Pt. I. Theoretical approaches -- 2. Nations in decline? : the erosion and persistence of modern national identities / Anthony D. Smith -- 3. Comparing visions of the nation : the role of ethnicity, religion and diaspora nationalism in Armenian, Jewish and Sikh relations to the homeland / William Safran -- 4. When is the nation no longer? / Edward A. Tiryakian -- Pt. II. Memory and the persistence of nations -- 5. The appeal of nationhood : national celebrations and commemorations / Gabriella Elgenius -- 6. The persistence of the Turkish nation in the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk / Christopher S. Wilson -- 7. Which 'nation' persists? : the competing notions of the Thai nation as reflected in public monuments / Andreas Sturm -- 8. The cross, the Madonna and the Jew : persistent symbolic representations of the nation in Poland / Genevieve Zubrzycki -- 9. National identity and tourism in twentieth-century Ireland : the role of collective re-imagining / Eric Zuelow -- Pt. III. Threat, response, re-emergence -- 10. The persistence of the Baltic nations under Soviet ride : an ethno-symbolist critique of modernist perspectives on the breakup of the USSR / Mark A. Jubulis -- 11. Croatian language policy : establishing national identity in the era of globalization / Mitchell Young -- 12. National identity in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan : state made, still durable / Stefanie Nanes.