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Origins. As noted earlier, nationalism is not very old. Before the very end of the eighteenth century (1700s), nationalism didn’t even exist as a widespread cultural or political ideology! When people told you where they were from, they said the name of a village or town.
May 6, 2024 · Nationalism, ideology based on the idea that the individual’s loyalty and devotion to the nation-state surpass other individual or group interests. Although it is often thought to be very old, nationalism did not become a great determining factor in history until the end of the 18th century.
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The Rise of the Nation-State. Previous Next. The nation-state developed fairly recently. Prior to the 1500s, in Europe, the nation-state as we know it did not exist. Back then, most people did not consider themselves part of a nation; they rarely left their village and knew little of the larger world.
The early modern variant is usually referred to as "national identity" or "proto-nationalism," and it implies an awareness by the populace, at least in part, of a common national culture not yet manifest as a motivating political ideology. Cultural bonds could be found in common language, religion, and custom as well as in the common social ...
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Founding documents of societies to promote progress and national identity, 1780-1791, selections.Indicative of Americans' commitment to nationhood in the 1780s was their creation of numerous societies to promote learning, agriculture, and manufactures; to address social ills and injustices; and to protect the newly formed state and national governments from discord and dissolution.
Mar 27, 2018 · In 1983, Benedict Anderson conceived the notion of ‘imagined communities’: he argued that a nation is a socially constructed community, imagined by the people within the group. This suggests, by default, that national identity is also imagined.
Jul 22, 2022 · In the author’s view, nationalism has been a grounded and potent ideology since its emergence. Moreover, ideologies that are seen as alternatives, such as individualism, consumerism, cosmopolitanism, and even religious fundamentalism, are often “grounded” in a highly nationalized environment.
