The Cult of the Nation in France : Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800, Paperback / softback Book

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

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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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