Contents: Linas Eriksonas/Leos Müller: Introduction - Miroslav Hroch: Questions of Ethnic and Civil Nationalism - Eric Kaufmann: 'National Ethnicity' and the Modern State - Mark L. Thompson: Jean Bodin's Six Books of the Commonwealth and the Early Modern Nation - Vladimír Urbánek: The Idea of State and Nation in the Writings of Bohemian Exiles After 1620 - Alan R. MacDonald: Statehood, Nationhood and Treason in Early Modern Scotland - Johan Holm: King Gustav Adolf's Death: The Birth of Early Modern Nationalism in Sweden - Anna Maria Forssberg: Nationalist Arguments as Instruments of War Propaganda in Sweden, 1655-80 - Gábor Kármán: Transylvania Between the Ottoman and Habsburg Empires - Matt Schumann: International Rivalry and State Identity in the Seven Years War, 1755-63 - Asker Pelgrom: The Lombard League Traditions in Northern Italy - Johannes Remy: The Past of Poland-Lithuania in the Polish National Movement, 1830-64 - Jonathan Kwan: The Austrian State Idea and Bohemian State Rights: Contrasting Traditions in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848-1914 - Marius Turda: Nation-States and Irredentism in the Balkans, 1890-1920 - Effi Gazi: Constructing the National Majority and Ethnic/Religious Minorities in Greece: An Overview - Miodrag A. Jovanovic: Serbia: From Ethnic Nationhood to Multicultural Citizenship - Marnix Beyen: Belgium: A Nation That Failed to Be Ethnic - Johan den Hertog: The Pillars of Nation Inside the Dutch State - Gabriella Elgenius: National Days and Nation-Building.