One of the most powerful political forces in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries was nationalism. Countries’ boundaries were negotiated or fought over and, often, once separate groups ...

Rather, we must turn to the late 17th century, when the Russian traveler, Count Pyotr Andreyevich Tolstoy, recorded that “the town of Perast belongs to the Albanian principality (i.e., the Bay ...

His account of the precursors to Hindu nationalism, reaching back to a Hindu reformist movement of the 19th century, is fascinating. So is his description of an early, unsuccessful attempt to ...