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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语言 英语 ● 格式 PDF ● ISBN 9780674020726 ● 出版者 Harvard University Press ● 发布时间 2009 ● 下载 6 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 2339068 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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