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In his 1983 booklet Nations and Nationalism, British-Czech intellectual Ernest Gellner submit a theory of nationalism, detailing that the concept of country is not in simple fact an ancient notion, as we might first imagine. Somewhat, it is today's idea born out of the seismic interpersonal and ethnical shifts that industrialization taken to the Lady. Industrial society needed an informed workforce writing the same culture and the same vocabulary - something much less important in the agricultural years. Gellner shows how the idea of nationalism - a political concept in which state and ethnical restrictions match - follows out of this new notion of country. Gellner was well aware that "the thought of a man without a nation seems to impose a...pressure on the modern thoughts." But having observed firsthand the catastrophic effects of excessive nationalism - Gellner was a Jew who escaped from Czechoslovakia in 1939, after Hitler invaded - he was only too alert to the dangers of thinking nationalism was something all human beings should embrace.
