notes of nationalism in europe
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In 1848, Frederic Sorrieu, a French artist, prepared a series of four print visualizing his dream of a world made up of ‘democratic and social republic, as he called them.Artists of the time of the French Revolution personified Liberty as a female figure.
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Nationalism in Europe
The term ‘nationalism’ is similar to the term ‘patriotism’. However, we must know that there isn’t one rigid meaning of nationalism. We shall look at this very interesting topic by reading about the rise of nationalism in Europe. We will learn how there were several phases of ‘nationalism’ and how each phase added a different meaning to the word!
Before we get into the depths of understanding what ‘nationalism’ means, do we even know what nations are?Europe, till the nineteenth century didn’t even have separate nations that we know of today! Therefore, nation- states were a modern result of the rise of nationalism in Europe.
Start of Nationalism
France was an empire (NOT a country yet!) that was ruled by the Bourbon dynasty. Its society was divided into 3 ‘Estates’. The 1st Estate was the Church, the 2nd was the noblemen and the 3rd was the poor urban and rural masses. There was vast inequality between the rich and the poor and the 1st and 2nd estates had ‘privileges’ where they had to pay no taxes and the poor had to pay them instead.
The French Revolution ended this feudal system, serfdom, ‘privileges’, gave wider voting rights, etc. Thereafter, Napoleon brought about reforms that echoed with the idea of a modern nation- a strong central administration, standard weights and measures, currency, national language, etc.