by David A. Bell
Harvard University Press, 2003
Cloth: 978-0-674-00447-4 | eISBN: 978-0-674-02072-6 | Paper: 978-0-674-01237-0
Library of Congress Classification DC121.3.B45 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.54094409033

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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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