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The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800

The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800

Paperback

French History

ISBN10: 0674012372
ISBN13: 9780674012370
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: Sep 1 2003
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.83 Width: 5.58 Depth: 9.82
Language: English
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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