ABSTRACT
The owl has been busy since Eric Hobsbawm made the above comment in 1990. Today, in 2006, scholars share knowledge in at least four journals dedicated to nations and nationalism (and countless other publications that touch on the subject); academic presses are replete with nationalism-related monographs/collections; and scholarly nationalism studies associations offer an intellectual community for those interested in national identity. Just as Hobsbawm predicted the evolution of a more global sense of identity, now scholars make use of a truly global medium, the internet, to communicate about an identity that is supposed to be on the wane.
