The necessary nation

Sobre el libro The necessary nation de Gregory Jusdanis publicado por Princeton en 2001:

In this controversial look at natinalism, Jusdamis offers a sweeping defense of the nation as a protector of cultural difference and a catalyst for modernization. Through a series of critical readings of multicultural, postcolonial, and globalization thheories, the author reveals how nationalism enables people to defend their distictive ways of life, to fight colonial opression, and to built and independent society of citizens.