ABSTRACT
Place, modernity and the Nationalist Project have their most complete expression in the idea of the nation-state. This chapter looks at the form and process of modernity through nationalist production of place in the practices of nation building and state building in the formation of the nation-state. It first considers the way that the boundaries of the new states were constructed, destroying the territorial order of the imperial system. It then examines the cultural, societal and locational practices that were used to modernise the new state division of space in relation to capitalist societal modernity. Regional modernity is discussed in terms of the approaches adopted by contemporary geographers and current theorists. Yugoslavia and its ethnic make-up and regional policy in Poland are discussed as case examples.
