1. Yehoshua Porath, The Emergence of the Palestinian Arab National Movement, 1918–1929, London: Frank Cass, 1974, p. 63.
2. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, London: Verso, 1982;
3. Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism, Oxford: Blackwell, 1983.
4. On a wider scale the best general introduction to the topic is Umut Ozkirimli, Theories of Nationalism, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2000.
5. Also useful was John Hutchinson, Modern Nationalism, London: Fontana 1994.