Aviel Roshwald is an American historian and Professor of history at

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private Jesuit research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic higher education, Ca ...

. He received his B.A from the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...

in 1980, and his PhD from

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

in 1987. As a scholar of

nationalism Nationalism is an idea or movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, it presupposes the existence and tends to promote the interests of a particular nation, Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: Theory, I ...

, Roshwald is noted for his belief that nations and nationalism already existed in the ancient world.People, state and country, 23 February 2007, Alex Danchev , The Times
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Books

''The Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas'' (Cambridge:

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, 2006). ''Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires: Central Europe, Russia and the Middle East, 1914-1923'' (London: Routledge, 2001). ''Estranged Bedfellows: Britain and France in the Middle East during the Second World War'' (New York:

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world. Its first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, with the Press officially granted the legal right to print books ...

, 1990). Co-edited with Richard Stites, ''European Culture in the Great War: The Arts, Entertainment, and Propaganda, 1914-1918'' (Cambridge:

, 1999).

References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Scholars of nationalism Georgetown University faculty University of Minnesota alumni Harvard University alumni American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub