Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-239) and index.

The owl's early flight : globalization and nationalism, an introduct ion / Eric Zuelow, Mitchell Young, and Andreas Sturm -- Nations in decl ine? : the erosion and persistence of modern national identities / Anth ony D. Smith -- Comparing visions of the nation : the role of ethnicity , religion and diaspora nationalism in Armenian, Jewish, and Sikh relat ions to the homeland / William Safran -- When is the nation no longer? / Edward A. Tiryakian -- The appeal of nationhood : national celebratio ns & commemorations / Gabriella Elgenius -- The persistence of the Turk ish nation in the Mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatrk / Christopher S. Wi lson -- Which "nation" persists? : the competing notions of the Thai na tion as reflected in public monuments / Andreas Sturm -- The cross, the Madonna, and the Jew : persistent symbolic representations of the nati on in Poland / Genevieve Zubrzycki -- -- National identity and tourism in 20th century Ireland : the role of collective re-imagining / Eric Zu elow -- The persistence of the Baltic nations under Soviet rule : an et hno-symbolist critique of modernist perspectives on the breakup of the USSR / Mark A. Jubulis I -- Croatian language policy : establishing nat ional identity in the era of globalization / Mitchell Young -- National identity in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan : state made, still durabl e / Stefanie Nanes.