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(2005) Revisiting nationalism, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
The essays in this volume have all attempted, from different standpoints, to explain the birth, development and resilience of nationalism in the mo-dern era. Undoubtedly, as we hypothesised in the introduction, this "ism" has been a major phenomenon of the last two centuries. This is evident from the multiplication of nation-states all over the world. At the be-ginning of the nineteenth century there were about ten states—most of them European—in the world; today there are nearly two hundred. Such an increase testifies to the strength of the principle of self-determination, which proclaims the right of peoples to decide their own future.1
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-10326-0_13
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Dieckhoff, A. , Jaffrelot, C. (2005)., Conclusion, in A. Dieckhoff & C. Jaffrelot (eds.), Revisiting nationalism, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 254-271.