What to Read After Nation and Nationalism
Readers who loved Nation and Nationalism by Ernest Gellner keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Nation and Nationalism is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Nation and Nationalism
Imagined communities
Nations and nationalism since 1780
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Man, the state, and war
Banal nationalism
Soft Power
The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939
Social theory of international politics
The Invention of tradition
Seeing Like a State
Social origins of dictatorship and democracy
Politics among Nations
Political Economy of International Relations
Power and Interdependence
Coercion, capital, and European states, AD 990-1990
Why civil resistance works
Democracy and its critics
The Great Transformation
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
The End of History and the Last Man
Interpreting the French Revolution
Structure and change in economic history
Origins of Political Order
White House years