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Varieties of Nationalism in Europe and Africa: Nationalism in Africa, 1945–1965

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Philip D. Curtin
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PROFESSOR PFLANZE's distinction between the state-nation and the nation-state of nineteenth-century Europe is also illuminating for the study of nationalism in recent Africa. The dominant force in recent African politics has obviously been the desire to build nations, and these nations are clearly of the statenation type.

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Research Article
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The Review of Politics , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , April 1966 , pp. 143 - 153
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1966

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