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Nationalism, the State, and Liberty
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Liberty Fund Staff
Liberty Fund, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana
This colloquium has 6 sessions on the following topics (not all readings for each session are available online):
- Session I: The Origins of States and Nations
- Session II: From Multinational States to Nation-States
- Session III: Liberal Nationalism?
- Session IV: Civic Nationalism and Patriotism
- Session V: Illiberal Nationalism
- Session VI: The Ethics of Secession
Session I: Franz Oppenheimer, The State (1919)
Franz Oppenheimer, The State: Its History and Development viewed Sociologically, authorized translation by John M. Gitterman (New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1922). Chapter: CHAPTER II: the genesis of the state
Accessed from oll.libertyfund.org/title/1662/36961 on 2009-10-29
The text is in the public domain.
Session II (A): J.S. Mill, “Of Nationality” (1861)
John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XIX - Essays on Politics and Society Part II, ed. John M. Robson, Introduction by Alexander Brady (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977). Chapter: CHAPTER XVI: Of Nationality, as Connected with Representative Government
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Session II (B): Lord Acton, “Nationality” (1862)
John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton, The History of Freedom and Other Essays, ed. John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence (London: Macmillan, 1907). Chapter: IX: NATIONALITY1
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Session III: Mises, “Liberal or Pacifistic Nationalism” (1919)
Ludwig von Mises, Nation, State, and Economy: Contributions to the Politics and History of Our Time, trans. Leland B. Yeager, ed. Bettina Bien Greaves (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2006). Chapter: 1: Liberal or Pacifistic Nationalism
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Session V: Mises, “The Roots of Imperialism” (1919)
Ludwig von Mises, Nation, State, and Economy: Contributions to the Politics and History of Our Time, trans. Leland B. Yeager, ed. Bettina Bien Greaves (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2006). Chapter: C: The Roots of Imperialism
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