Dan Lainer-Vos

Fundraising may not seem like an obvious lens through which to examine the process of nation-building, but in this highly original book, Lainer-Vos shows that fundraising mechanisms—ranging from complex transnational gift-giving systems to sophisticated national bonds—are organisational tools that can be used to bind dispersed groups to the nation. Sinews of the Nation treats nation-building as a practical organisational accomplishment...