In his latest collection of essays, Neil Davidson brings his formidable analytical powers to bear on the concept of the capitalist nation-state. Through probing inquiry, Davidson draws out how nationalist ideology and consciousness is used to bind the subordinate classes to "the nation," while simultaneously using "the state" as a means of conducting geopolitical competition for capital.
"Praise for How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? and Holding Fast to an Image of the PastI was frankly pole-axed by this magnificent book. Davidson resets the entire debate on the character of revolutions: bourgeois, democratic, and socialist. He's sending me, at least, back to the library." Mike Davis, author of Planet of SlumsThis is, quite simply, the finest book of its kind."T
