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
Multiculturalism
The Invention of tradition
Social Theory of International Politics
Seeing Like a State
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Politics among Nations
Political Economy of International Relations
Coercion, capital, and European states, AD 990-1990
Democracy and Its Critics
Why Civil Resistance Works
Power and Interdependence
The Great Transformation
The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
The End of History and the Last Man
The Origins of Political Order
Structure and Change in Economic History
Interpreting the French Revolution