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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Bell, David A
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| Publisher: |
Harvard University Press
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| Date: |
09/01/2003
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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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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