The cult of the nation in France : inventing nationalism, 1680-1800 / David A. Bell
- Bib ID:
- 1784023
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bell, David Avrom
- Description:
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Univeristy Press, 2001
- xiv, 304 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0674004477 (alkaline paper)
- Summary:
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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, customes, and values. The period thus gave rise to the first large-scale nationalist program in history."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 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:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-291) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2001
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