“…The influential work of Eric Hobsbawm (1994) has turned the "invention" of nations into a standard trope of nationalism studies. Scholars have discussed the invention of numerous nation-states, including Canada (Sandercock 2009;Zeller 2009), Egypt (Coury 1982), Iraq (Dodge 2003), Jordan (Fathi 1994), Lebanon (Firro 2002), Lithuania (Zake 2007), Serbia (Lazarevic 2011), Singapore (Ortmann 2010), the United States (Wills 2002;Vidal 2004;Rakove 2010), and Uzbekistan (Kurzman 1999). Indeed, one London publisher has an "inventing the nation" series, so far covering China (Harrison 2001), Italy (Doumanis 2001), Russia (Tolz 2001), Ireland (Comerford 2003), Germany (Berger 2004), France (Baycroft 2008), South Africa (Johnston 2014), and Spain (Hurnlcbrek 2015).…”