The Washington Post review of Eric Storm’s Nationalism: ‘Grand scale history’
The Washington Post reviews Nationalism by university lecturer Eric Storm. In this book, Storm explores how nation-states became the dominant political organizational form.
‘Over 350-some brisk pages, Storm sets out to trace how nationalism developed in politics, culture and the arts from the age of the Enlightenment to the revolutions of 1848, then through 19th-century imperialism and industrialization, the two world wars, the decolonization wave of the late 20th century, and the rise of globalization’, writes reviewer Joshua Keating. ‘It’s grand-scale history along the lines of the “Age of …” series (“The Age of Revolution” and so on) by Eric Hobsbawm . . . Storm’s book tells the long and dramatic story of how nations conquered the world and became the dominant form of political organization of our era. It also makes clear that this era is far from over.’
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