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The rise of nationalism in Europe was stimulated by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. [1] [2] American political science professor Leon Baradat has argued that “nationalism calls on people to identify with the interests of their national group and to support the creation of a state – a nation-state – to support those ...
Historically in Europe, the watershed year for romantic nationalism was 1848, [citation needed] when a revolutionary wave spread across the continent; numerous nationalistic revolutions occurred in various fragmented regions (such as Italy) or multinational states (such as the Austrian Empire).
Ethnic nationalism, also known as ethnonationalism, [6] is a form of nationalism wherein the nation and nationality are defined in terms of ethnicity, [7] [8] with emphasis on an ethnocentric (and in some cases an ethnocratic) approach to various political issues related to national affirmation of a particular ethnic group. [9] [10]
As in other contemporary European states, political union was the first step in the creation of the Spanish nation-state, in this case not on a uniform ethnic basis, but through the imposition of the political and cultural characteristics of the dominant ethnic group, in this case the Castilians, over those of other ethnic groups, who became ...
Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism in Europe shortly after the First World War. It dominated Italy (1923–1943) and Nazi Germany (1933–1945) and played a role in other countries. It was based in tightly organised local groups, all controlled from the top.
Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1992 is a 1990 book by the American political scientist Charles Tilly.. The central theme of the book is state formation.Tilly writes about the complex history of European state formation from the Middle Ages to the 1990s – a thousand-year time span.
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Nationalism has provided a significant framework for historical writing in Europe and in those former colonies influenced by Europe since the nineteenth century. Typically official school textbooks are based on the nationalist model and focus on the emergence, trials and successes of the forces of nationalism.