Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVolume VII
- The Cambridge World History
- Production, Destruction, and Connection, 1750–Present
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Production, destruction, and connection, 1750–present: introduction
- Part I Material matrices
- Part II Population and disease
- Part III Politics
- 11 The evolution of international law
- 12 On nationalism
- 13 Assessing imperialism
- 14 Self-strengthening and other political responses to the expansion of European economic and political power
- 15 Decolonization and its legacy
- 16 Genocide
- 17 Communism and fascism
- Part IV World regions
- Index
- References
12 - On nationalism
from Part III - Politics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVolume VII
- The Cambridge World History
- Production, Destruction, and Connection, 1750–Present
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Production, destruction, and connection, 1750–present: introduction
- Part I Material matrices
- Part II Population and disease
- Part III Politics
- 11 The evolution of international law
- 12 On nationalism
- 13 Assessing imperialism
- 14 Self-strengthening and other political responses to the expansion of European economic and political power
- 15 Decolonization and its legacy
- 16 Genocide
- 17 Communism and fascism
- Part IV World regions
- Index
- References
Summary
Modern nationalism lies at the intersection of the universal and the particular. Nationalism, then, describes the aspiration or active effort to achieve, maintain, or expand the scope of, a nation's shared identity, self-governance, and/or power. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries witnessed the continued global spread and development of the twinned ideas of popular sovereignty and nationalism. The geopolitical implications of modern nationalism were highly diverse, contingent as they were on the infinitely variable relationship between political and ethno-linguistic borders, among other factors. Nationalism continued to be associated with movements of democratization, as in the 1848 revolutions in Europe, the 'Wilsonian moment' of 1919, or the Congress Party's struggle for Indian independence. For all of nationalism's ideological malleability, there were two elements. They are the idea of the nation as a horizontal community of equals; and the assertion that one's own nation was at least the equal of any other nation on the face of the planet.
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