John Breuilly is Emeritus Professor of Nationalism and Ethnicity at the London School of Economics, UK. He is the author of Nationalism and the State (2nd Ed., 1993), The Formation of the First German Nation-State, 1800-1871 (1996), Austria, Prussia and The Making of Germany: 1806-1871 (2nd Ed., 2011) and co-edited with Ronald Speirs, Germany's Two Unifications: Anticipations, Experiences, Responses (2005). He is also the editor of The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism (2013).
