The Cult of the Nation in France : Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800
ISBN: 9780674020726
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Harvard University Press
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Subjects: History; Political Science;

Using eighteenth-century France as a case study, David Bell offers an important new argument about the origins of nationalism. Before the eighteenth century, the very idea of nation-building--a central component of nationalism--did not exist. During this period, leading French intellectual and political figures came to see perfect national unity as a critical priority, and so sought ways to endow all French people with the same language, laws, customs, and values. The period thus gave rise to the first large-scale nationalist program in history.


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