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3 unusual facts about Tom Nairn


Tom Nairn

In 2001 he was invited to take up an Innovation Professorship in Nationalism and Cultural Diversity at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, leaving in January 2010.

His original source for the term is the nickname 'Kakania' that Robert Musil uses for the dual Austro-Hungarian monarchy in The Man Without Qualities.

Uneven and combined development

Marxist historian Tom Nairn has argued that uneven development can also lead to peripheral nationalism, for example in Scotland.



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