Includes bibliographical references and index.

Definitions. State and nation. The Nation -- Culture in agrarian soc iety. Power and culture in the agro-literature society. The varieties o f agrarian rulers -- Industrial society. The society of perpetual growt h. Social genetics. The age of universal high culture -- The transition to an age of nationalism. A note on the weakness of nationalism. Wild and garden culture -- What is a nation. The course of true nationalism never did run smooth -- Social entropy and equality in industrial socie ty. Obstacles to entropy. Fissures and barriers. A diversity of focus - - A typology of nationalisms. The varieties of nationalist experience. Diaspora nationalism -- The future of nationalism. Industrial culture - one or many? -- Nationalism and ideology. Who is for Nuremberg? One na tion, one state.