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Common terms and phrasesage of nationalism agrarian age agrarian society agro-literate alism become blues bureaucratic central clerisy communication complex conspicuous continue counter-entropic crucial cultural homogeneity Danegeld defined diaspora nationalism difference distinct division of labour doctrine dominant early industrialism economic effective egalitarian Elie Kedourie emergence engendered entropy entropy-resistant Ernest Gellner ethnic groups European eventually fact faith happens hence high culture human idea idiom important individual industrial society Islam Kant Kedourie kind language least less linguistic literacy literate low cultures Mamluk Marxism Megalomania minority mobility modern society modern world moral Muslim nationalist nationalist imperative nationalist principle nomic norm option peasants perhaps persist pervasive political boundaries political roof political units population potential nationalisms power-holders pre-industrial problem question reason rulers Ruritanian sense shared culture situation social Somalis sometimes speak specialists specialized specific stratum survive sustained territory traditional tribal ture universal urban References to this bookFrom other books
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