In this sixtieth anniversary edition of The Idea of Nationalism, Craig Calhoun probes the work of Hans Kohn and the world that fi rst brought prominence to this unparalleled defense of the national ideal in the modern West. At its publication, Saturday Review called it 'an enduring and defi nitive treatise. Kohn has written a book which is less a history of In this sixtieth anniversary edition of The Idea of Nationalism, Craig Calhoun probes the work of Hans Kohn and the world that fi rst brought prominence to this unparalleled defense of the national ideal in the modern West.
At its publication, Saturday Review called it 'an enduring and defi nitive treatise. Kohn has written a book which is less a history of nationalism than it is a history of Western civilization from the standpoint of the national idea.' This edition includes an extensive new introduction by Craig Calhoun, which in itself is a substantial contribution to the history of ideas. Hans Kohn has lived where history has been made. Born in Prague in 1891, he was raised in the twilight of the Habsburg Empire, saw action in World War I, and spent five years in Russia as a prisoner of war. He came to America in 1933, after more than a decade of living in London, Paris, and Jerusalem. The next 27 years he spent as professor of history at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts Hans Kohn has lived where history has been made.
Born in Prague in 1891, he was raised in the twilight of the Habsburg Empire, saw action in World War I, and spent five years in Russia as a prisoner of war. He came to America in 1933, after more than a decade of living in London, Paris, and Jerusalem.
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The next 27 years he spent as professor of history at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and at the city college of new York.