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‘Do nations have navels?’, famously asked Ernest Gellner in his address to the Warwick Debates held on 24 October 1985. The question related to a long-standing discussion on the study of nationalism, as to whether nations had always existed or were the byproducts of specific modern historical phenomena.
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© 2009 Susana Carvalho and François Gemenne
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Carvalho, S., Gemenne, F. (2009). Conclusion. In: Carvalho, S., Gemenne, F. (eds) Nations and their Histories. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245273_18
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