Definitions: State and nation ; The Nation -- Culture in agrarian society: Power and culture in the agro-literate polity ; Culture ; The state in agrarian society ; The varieties of agrarian rulers -- Industrial society: The society of perpetual growth ; Social genetics ; The age of universal high culture -- The transition to an age of nationalism: A note on the weakness of nationalism ; Wild and garden cultures -- What is a nation?; The course of true nationalism never did run smooth -- Social entropy and equality in industrial society: Obstacles to entropy ; Fissures and barriers ; A diversity of focus -- A typology of nationalisms: The varieties of nationalist experience ; Diaspora nationalism -- The future of nationalism: Industrial culture : one or many? -- Nationalism and ideology: Who is for Nuremberg? ; One nation, one state -- Conclusion: What is not being said