Gat is Ezer Weitzman Professor and chair of the history department at Tel Aviv University, as well as being the author of several previous books, including War in Human Civilization and Victorious and Vulnerable: Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How It Is Still Imperilled. Azar Gat’s Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism rises to this implicit challenge with confidence and a fair amount of success. Titles like Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities, Eric Hobsbawm’s Nations and Nationalism, or Hans Kohn’s The Idea of Nationalism have become canonical texts and had no serious challengers in recent years. New entries in the history of nationalism have, as the saying goes, tough acts to follow.
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