| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1 | The History Cooperative

Anthony D. Smith. Chosen Peoples. New York: Oxford University Press. 2003 Pp. xxi, 330. $29.95.
This is a big book: not in size, but in ideas. Anthony D. Smith reads history well and widely, reflects on it respectfully, and then produces a series of conclusions much bigger than most historians would dare to entertain. His brief is nothing less than a frontal assault on the way that political scientists (and their predecessors since the Enlightenment) have conceived of the origin and continuance of nationhood. Along the way, national and ethnic historians who have followed the Enlightenment project are quietly shoved off the train and left to find their own way home, reflecting perhaps on their false rationality as they trudge along.	1
At heart, Smith refuses to accept the bleached and pettifogging way that nationhood has been construed. He is particularly clever in using the work of Elie Kedourie as a metonym for the entire philosophically based definition of nationhood and its dynamics. If Kedourie is found wanting, then his disciples and simulacra are inevitably to be found to be intellectually emaciated.	. . .

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