Prophets and Peoples Author:Hans Kohn Nationalism, which develops in every country according to the tradiotion and history of the particular people and is greatly affected by thinkers and philosophers, has no more brilliant an explicator than Hans Kohn. In this book he makes a penetrating analysis of five "prophets" -Mill, Michelet, Mazzini, Treitschke, Dostoevsky- as they expressed... more » and influenced their peoples' ideas of nationalism.
He shows where the ideas converge and where they separate, traces their development in nineteenth-century Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Russia, and thus delineates a vital aspect of past history as well as history in the making.« less