This book will be of interest to all those in the social sciences and history who are concerned with problems of national identity, the uses of history and culture in the creation of modern nations, and the particular case of the ...

Profiles elected politicians and activists, trade unionists and spies, human rights campaigners and dictators, and pioneers of women's rights, in some 2,000 biographical entries.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This compelling book argues that it is wrong to assume that nations are culturally uniform.