, Preface.Series Editor´s Preface.Part I: States:. 1. The Advent of the Modern State.2. Christianity and Reasons of State.3. Leviathan.4. The Constitutional State and the Rule of Law.Part II: Nations:.5. The ´Nation´ is not just any Nation.6. Nation States and National Cultures.7. The Pivotal Period.8. The Invention of the ´Folk Nation´.9. The Folk Nations in Reality.Part III: Nation States:.10. The Revolutionary Nation State (1815-1871).11. The Imperial Nation State (1871-1914).12. The Total Nation State (1914-1945).Part IV: Nations, States and Europe:.13. Nations, States and Europe.Notes.Bibliography.Index of Names., * The first general history of the evolution of states and nations in Europe from medieval times to the present. * Written by one of the foremost of Germany´s youngest generation of historians.
