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Readings for Wednesday, July 16, 2003

Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century (NY: Vintage Books, 1998)

• Ch. 2, "Empires, Nations, Minorities," 41-75

Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)

• Ch. 4, "Nationalizing States in the Old 'New Europe' -- and the New," pp. 79-106

James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998)

• Introduction, pp. 1-8
• selections from Ch. 2, "Cities, People, and Language," pp. 64-73, 76-83
• Ch. 3, "Authoritarian High Modernism," pp. 87-102