1. For a debunking account in English see M. Hughes, Nationalism and Society: Germany 1800–1945 (London, 1988).
2. A collection of essays considering the role of ‘nationalism’in various countries for the period is O. Dann and J. Dinwiddy (eds.), Nationalism in Europe in the Age of the French Revolution (London, 1987).
3. I develop this argument in J. Breuilly, ‘Culture, Doctrine, Politics: Three Ways of Constructing Nationalism’, in J. Beramendi et. al. (eds.), Nationalism in Europe. Past and Present (Santiago de Compostela, 1994), pp. 127–134.
4. There is a large and fast growing literature on this debate. For judicious accounts from rather different perspectives see U. Ozkirimli, Theories of Nationalism (London, 2000)
5. A.D. Smith, Nationalism and Modernism (1st edition, London, 1998).