by LOUIS L. SNYDER

Although nationalism has been the prime moving force of European history for the last one hundred years and has become of similar importance in Asia since the end of the First World War, the serious study of its meaning and implications has only recently begun. Yet such a study seems of urgent concern not only for the scholar but also for statesmen and citizens dealing with international relations. For nations—with their drives, emotions, and real or supposed interests—are the chief actors on the stage of present history. Errors of judgment about the persistence and variations of national traditions and character and about the nature of nationalism were responsible, among other factors, for the coming of the wars and the weaknesses of the peace treaties of the twentieth century. In the middle of th

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: $4-10601, 1954, 220p.