Nation-States and National Identity
Perry Anderson, 9 May 1991
The Identity of France. Vol. II: People and Production
by Fernand Braudel, translated by Sian Reynolds.
Collins, 781 pp., £25, December 1990,0 00 217774 9 Show More
by Fernand Braudel, translated by Sian Reynolds.
Collins, 781 pp., £25, December 1990,
“... not be deferred indefinitely. On the other side of the dispute, Hans-Ulrich Wehler and Jürgen Habermas rejected any geopolitical definition of the nation as a retrograde heritage of the past that had led to the Nazi regime. For Habermas, German – indeed any acceptable modern – national identity could only be ... ”