Cult of the Nation in France
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- ISBN 9780674012370
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2003
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
David A. Bell is Professor of History, Princeton University.
