1. For instance, Ernest Gellner’s Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983,
2. and Eric Hobsbawm’s Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programs, Myth, Reality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, are the two prominent books holding this position.
3. Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self, the Making of the Modern Identity. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989, p. 35.
4. Ibid, p. 27.
5. Ibid, p. 51.