1. See Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Oxford: Blackwell, 1983);
2. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1991);
3. Eric J. Hobsbawm, “Introduction: Inventing Tradition,” in Eric J. Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds. The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 1–14.
4. Mark E. Neely, “Lincoln, Slavery, and the Nation,” Journal of American History 96:2 (2009), 458.
5. See Liah Greenfeld, Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995);