Aviel Roshwald is an American historian and Professor of history at

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...

. He received his B.A from the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

in 1980, and his PhD from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

in 1987. As a scholar of

nationalism Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the State (polity), state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a in-group and out-group, group of peo ...

, Roshwald is noted for his belief that nations and nationalism already existed in the ancient world.People, state and country, 23 February 2007, Alex Danchev , The Times
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Books

''The Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas'' (Cambridge:

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, 2006). ''Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires: Central Europe, Russia and the Middle East, 1914-1923'' (London: Routledge, 2001). ''Estranged Bedfellows: Britain and France in the Middle East during the Second World War'' (New York:

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, 1990). Co-edited with Richard Stites, ''European Culture in the Great War: The Arts, Entertainment, and Propaganda, 1914-1918'' (Cambridge:

, 1999).

References

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