 All that I can find to say is that a nation exists when a significant number of people in a community consider themselves to form a nation, or behave as if they formed one.  Problems of Communism - Page 851979Full view - About this book
 | Alan Carling - 1991 - 460 pages
...suitable and convincing past which can be reconstructed and re-presented to members and outsiders"; and "All that I can find to say is that a nation exists...to form a nation, or behave as if they formed one". The writers are David Miller, Market, State and Community (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), p. 238;... | |
 | Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - 1991 - 244 pages
...ancien regime as a class; but surely it was imagined 9. Cf. Seton- Watson, Nations and States, p. 5: 'All that I can find to say is that a nation exists...to form a nation, or behave as if they formed one. ' We may translate 'consider themselves' as 'imagine themselves.' 10. Ernest Renan, 'Qu'est-ce qu'une... | |
 | Katarina Sjöberg - 1993 - 242 pages
...practical in that it is a theoretical concept of universal validity. All that I can find to say is that nation exists when a significant number of people...to form a nation, or behave as if they formed one (Scton- Watson, quoted in Anderson 1983: 15). Another factor that creates difficulties is that the... | |
 | Yael Tamir - 1995 - 207 pages
...to arrive at a scientifically precise definition of a nation. At best, a nation can be said to exist when "a significant number of people in a community...to form a nation, or behave as if they formed one." 30 At this point, it is important to distinguish between two closely related terms: nation and people.... | |
 | William Pfaff - 1994 - 261 pages
...resembles that of Renan. Seton-Watson wrote that after a lifetime of study he was "driven to the conclusion that no 'scientific definition' of a nation can be...the whole of the population should so feel, or so behave, and it is not possible to lay down dogmatically a minimum proportion of a population which... | |
 | Jürgen Elvert - 1994 - 598 pages
...Beiheft 9) 0 1994 Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, Stuttgart example, Hugh Seton-Watson argued that „a nation exists when a significant number...to form a nation, or behave as if they formed one" . The problem for Irish nationalists is that there is no approach to the identification of a nation... | |
 | Angelika Bammer - 1994 - 330 pages
...the following fashion: "a nation exists when a significant number of a people in a community 'imagine themselves' to form a nation, or behave as if they formed one" (6). He goes on to add that "It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never... | |
 | E. Lagerspetz - 1995 - 254 pages
...Tung 1978, 234) Money is whatever is generally accepted in exchange. (Dornbusch and Fischer 1978, 209) A nation exists when a significant number of people...to form a nation, or behave as if they formed one. (Seton- Watson 1977, 5) A work of art is an artifact of a kind created to be presented to an artworld... | |
 | Martin E. Marty - 1997 - 262 pages
...to the conclusion that no 'scientific definition' of a nation" could be devised. Even so, the nation exists: All that I can find to say is that a nation...the whole of the population should so feel, or so behave, and it is not possible to lay down dogmatically a minimum proportion of a population which... | |
 | Karen Dawisha, Bruce Parrott - 1997 - 400 pages
...14. Ibid., p. 19. In defining a similarly ambiguous term, nation, Hugh Seton-Watson noted that "[a]ll I can find to say is that a nation exists when a significant...to form a nation, or behave as if they formed one." Hugh Seton-Watson, Nations and States: An Enquiry into the Origins of Nations and the Politics of Nationalism... | |
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