1. Graham Greene, The Human Factor (London: The Bodley Head, 1978), 228.
2. For recent surveys see Eric Storm, ‘Nation-Building in the Provinces: The Interplay between Local, Regional and National Identities in Central and Western Europe, 1870–1945,’ European History Quarterly, 42 (2012), 650–663,
3. and Lloyd Kramer, ‘Concluding Reflections: Borderlands Histories and the Categories of Historical Analysis,’ in Paul Readman, Cynthia Radding and Chad Bryant (eds.), Borderlands in World History, 1700–1914 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
4. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, revised and extended edition (London: Verso, 1991; first 1983);
5. Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism (Oxford: Blackwell, 1983); Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger (eds.), The Invention of Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983);