The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800 – Paperback-Fast Shipping

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David A. Bell (Author)

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.

Number of Pages: 320Dimensions: 0.83 x 9.82 x 5.58 INPublication Date: September 01, 2003