| List of Figures and Tables | |
| Introduction | |
| 1 | The British Intellectual Tradition ("Self-Determination: The New Phase") | 3 |
| 2 | American Scholarship in the Post-World War II Era ("Nation-Building or Nation-Destroying?") | 28 |
| 3 | More Recent Developments ("Ethnonationalism") | 67 |
| 4 | Terminological Chaos ("A Nation Is a Nation, Is a State, Is an Ethnic Group, Is a...") | 89 |
| 5 | Illusions of Homogeneity ("Myths of Hemispheric, Continental, Regional, and State Unity") | 118 |
| 6 | The Seductive Lure of Economic Explanations ("Eco- or Ethno-Nationalism?") | 144 |
| 7 | Ahistoricalness: The Case of Western Europe ("Ethnonationalism in the First World: The Present in Historical Perspective") | 165 |
| 8 | Man Is a [R(n)ational] Animal ("Beyond Reason: The Nature of the Ethnonational Bond") | 195 |
| 9 | When Is a Nation? ("From Tribe to Nation?") | 210 |
| Index | 227 |
