describe the three conditions which led to the formation of British Nation state
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Three conditions that led to the emergence of the British Nation State are:
(i) The emergence of the new middle classes.
(ii) The ideology of liberalism.
(iii) The ideas of conservatism and treaty of Vienna.
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1. In Britain the formation of the nation-state was not the result of a sudden upheaval or revolution. It was the result of a long-drawn-out process. There was no British nation prior to the eighteenth century. The primary identities of the people who inhabited the British Isles were ethnic ones – such as English, Welsh, Scot or Irish.
2.But as the English nation steadily grew in wealth, importance and power, it was able to extend its influence over the other nations of the islands.
3.The English parliament, which had seized power from the monarchy in 1688 at the end of a protracted conflict, was the instrument through which a nation-state, with England at its centre, came to be forged.
4.The Act of Union (1707) between England and Scotland that resulted in the formation of the ‘United Kingdom of Great Britain’ meant, in effect, that England was able to impose its influence on Scotland.
5. A new ‘British nation’ was forged through the propagation of a dominant English culture. The symbols of the new Britain – the British flag (Union Jack), the national anthem (God Save Our Noble King), the English language
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