Power and culture in the agro-literate polity 9 // Culture 11 // The state in agrarian society 13 // The varieties of agrarian rulers 14 // 3 Industrial Society 19 // The society of perpetual growth 24 // Social genetics 29 // The age of universal high culture 35 // 4 The Transition to an Age of Nationalism 39 // A note on the weakness of nationalism 43 // Wild and garden cultures 50 // 5 What is a Nation? 53 // The course of true nationalism never did run smooth 58 // 6 Social Entropy and Equality in Industrial Society 63 // Obstacles to entropy 64 // Fissures and barriers 73 // A diversity of focus 75 // 7 A Typology of Nationalisms 88 // The varieties of nationalist experience 97 // Diaspora nationalism 101 // vi // Contents // 8 The Future of Nationalism 110 // Industrial culture - one or many? 114 // 9 Nationalism and Ideology 123 // Who is for Nuremberg? 130 // One nation, one state 134 // 10 Conclusion 137 // What is not being said 137 // Summary 139 // Select Bibliography 144 // Index 146