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The Cult of the Nation in France
Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800
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About this book
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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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Constructing the Nation
- 1. The National and the Sacred
- 2. The Politics of Patriotism and National Sentiment
- 3. English Barbarians, French Martyrs
- 4. National Memory and the Canon of Great Frenchmen
- 5. National Character and the Republican Imagination
- 6. National Language and the Revolutionary Crucible
- Conclusion: Toward the Present Day and the End of Nationalism
- Notes
- Note on Internet Appendices and Bibliography
- Index