How Nations Make Themselves

In this first miniseries of Season 2, we're talking about "Petronationalism". After wrestling with the myths imposed on nation-states in Episode 1, especially around World War I, we turn our attention to myth-making within specific countries over much longer time spans, and the way these histories complicate our understanding of what a nation even is.REFERENCESAnderson, Gordon L. "The Idea of the Nation-State Is an Obstacle to Peace", International Journal on World Peace. 2006.https://www.jstor.org/stable/20753518Graeber, David and David Wengrow. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. MacMillan, 2021.https://us.macmillan.com/books..../9780374157357/theda H.J. The Foundations of Sovereignty, and Other Essays. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 2021.https://www.lawbookexchange.co....m/pages/books/36612/ James C. Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States. Yale University Press, 2017.https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1bvnfk9Sicard, Germaine (trans. Matthew Landry). The Origins of Corporations: The Mills of Toulouse in the Middle Ages. Yale University Press, 2015.https://yalebooks.yale.edu/201....5/08/11/the-worlds-f The original French title, from a 1952 dissertation republished in 1955, is “Aux origines des Sociétés anonymes, les moulins de Toulouse au Moyen-Age. That "Anonymous Societies" part is what we translate as "corporations", but the former term is more fitting.Wengrow, David. What Makes Civilization? The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West. Oxford University Press, 2018.https://global.oup.com/academic/product/what-makes-civilization-9780199699421?cc=us&lang=en&