Read Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism, Azar Gat. https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2014/07/23/reality-may-not-have-

Read Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism, Azar Gat. https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2014/07/23/reality-may-not-have-your-bias/ https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2014/07/23/reality-may-not-ha... > Basically, Gat is refuting a modernist view, which has arguably gone from being revisionist to normative, that the concept and execution of a nation is a historically contingent construction of early modern Europe, and more precisely Revolutionary France of the 1790s.