The cult of the nation in France : inventing nationalism, 1680-1800
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The cult of the nation in France : inventing nationalism, 1680-1800
Harvard University Press, 2003, c2001
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
Preface Introduction: Constructing the Nation 1. The National and the Sacred
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