Today, we review Eric Storm's Nationalism: A World History, which examines the evolution of nationalism from premodern Europe to the post-Cold War era. The book traces the development of nation-states, exploring their relationship with citizenship, state-building, and cultural homogenization. Significant attention is paid to the interplay between nationalism and other factors, such as warfare, economic modernization, and cultural production (literature, art, music). Storm contrasts Enlightenment ideals of citizenship with the realities of social exclusion and the rise of Romantic nationalism. Finally, the text analyzes the impact of nationalism on the physical environment and the ongoing challenges to the nation-state model in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

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