...movement for the attainment and maintenance of autonomy, cohesion and individuality for a social group deemed by some of its members to constitute an actual or potential nation" (Smith, 1976 : 1). A nation exists where a significant number of people consider themselves to be one...

...economy and common legal rights and duties for all members” (AD Smith 14), but I shall expand his definition of nationalism, “an ideological movement...to constitute an actual or potential ‘nation'” (AD Smith 73), to include the concept of devotion to the interests or culture of one's own nation....

...influential definitions have been given by, for instance Andiony D. Smith, who defines nationalism as 'an ideological movement for attaining and maintaining...members to constitute an actual or potential "nation"' (Anthony D. Smith, National Identity, London: Penguin, 1991, p. 73) and by Ernest Gellner, who says...

...has the kind of range which Greenfeld suggests, but narrows his conception of nationalism proper to “an ideological movement for attaining and maintaining...population deemed by some of its members to constitute and actual or potential ‘nation”. Greenfeld, however, is not untypical in these confusions. Most...

...suggests, but narrows his conception of nationalism proper to “an ideological movement for attaming and maintaining autonomy, unity and identity on behalf...population deemed by some of its members to constitute and actual or potential ‘nation”. Greenfeld, however, is not untypical in these confusions. Most...

...ideology and a movement, seeking to attain and maintain autonomy, unity and identity for a social group deemed by some of its members to constitute an actual or potential ‘nation', is a product of the late eighteenth century. It was then that a specifically nationalist doctrine arose,...

...Smith has referred to nationalism as ‘an ideological movement for attaining and maintaining autonomy on behalf of a population deemed by some of its members to constitute an actual or potential nation'.¿ Note here that not all members of a population need share a belief in the existence of a nation or...

...nationalists, patriots, revolutionaries, agnostics, cynics, or simply subjects? Smith views nationalism as "an ideological movement for attaining and maintaining...members to constitute an actual or potential 'nation' " (1991, p. 73) that "shares a historic territory, common myths and historical memories, a mass, public...

...Greenfeld suggests, but narrows his definition - in his National Identity, London, 1991, pp. 72ff. - to 'an ideological movement for attaining and maintaining...members to constitute an actual or potential "nation"'. 64 Gellner, Nations and Nationalism, pp. 74-5. 65 Ibid., pp. 110-22. 66 The most feasible form in which...

...the nation.” See Kellas, The Politics of Nationalism and Ethnicity, 3. Smith defines nationalism as “an ideological movement for attaining and maintaining...to constitute an actual or potential ‘nation.” See Smith, National Identity, 73. Peter Worsley has suggested that the word nationalism is used to...