I. Popular sovereignty and political upheaval A. Enlightened and revolutionary ideas 1. Popular sovereignty: relocating sovereignty in the people a. Traditionally monarchs claimed a "divine right" to rule b. The Enlightenment challenged this right‚ made the monarch responsible to the people c. John Locke’s theory of contractual government: authority comes from the consent of the governed 2. Freedom and equality: important values of
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towards nationalism. While Lennon invites his listeners to join him in imagining the peace that can exist without the barriers of nations‚ Anderson believes nationalism is necessary and prevalent for a society to be kept in order. Lennon rejects the notion of sacrificing human life for the sake of a nation‚ yet Anderson affirms it as an act of love‚ in his chapter Patriotism and Racism. Within the same chapter‚ Anderson also counters the argument that racism is not borne out of nationalism‚ but rather
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ATLANTIC REVOLUTION HIS 379 The Atlantic World Professor student 8 Jun 2013 Introduction Nationalism and revolution often go hand in hand. Yet‚ while nationalism might lead to revolution‚ and perhaps national independence‚ it is much broader than revolution‚ and one should not be confused with the other. “All nationalists believe that nations can be identified by certain characteristics that all its citizens
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British legality‚ youth‚ music and anti-racism; and explores the relationship between race‚ class and nation. Paul Gilroy makes it clear that he’s not restricted to the idea of modernising class analysis‚ and examines the relation between racism and nationalism - arguing that racial prejudice cannot be scraped by administrative means‚ since it goes beyond left-right political divide. He pays a huge contribution to the new social movements‚ by rethinking the position of black communities in terms of the
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then in 1859 mobilized democratic nationalist. His victories in battle made him a legend. One of the things that increased his legend was that he did not accept land or titles that were offered to him after the fighting. He was a symbol of modern nationalism. Garibaldi believed in a unified Italy and remained true to his ideals. Because of this‚ ordinary men
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Imagined Communities The concept of nationalism‚ according to Benedict Anderson‚ has never been deeply discussed. There has never been a great thinker treating this concept as thoroughly as other concepts. Anderson suggests that one should not think of nationalism as an ideology like “fascism” or “liberalism”‚ but to relate it with “kinship” and “religion” in order to understand the similarity that groups of people have and why the territory that they live help one understand the borders that we
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Readings. On the uses and Implications of Constructionism. By: Yeros P. 1999 In the development of the study of ethnicity and nationalism‚ the concepts of ethnicity and nationhood are often considered to be distinct. Conventionally‚ ethnicity has been conceptualized within a continuum between primodialism and instrumentalism. Meanwhile‚ nationalhood and nationalism have been understood as the process that either owned their existence to various dimension of modernity. The enlightenment‚ industrialization
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4. British leadership 5. Resistance to abolition 6. Emancipation without socio-economic changes 7. Emancipation and colonialism in Africa and the Islamic world B. Nations and Nationalism 1. The “nation” as a new idea 2. Unification and independence 3. Internation conflict 4. Political uses of nationalism C. Feminist Beginnings 1. Enlightenment attacks on tradition 2. Mary Wollstonecraft‚
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nation-state and nationalism. A decline in U.S. nation-state sovereignty would serve to promote megacorporate power manifest in the rise of the corporate state over that of the nation- state. Evidence of U.S. nationstate decline appears in many areas‚ such as that of Article XVI in the WTO and policies of the IMF. The decline in nation-state sovereignty is also evident in U.S. policies of privatization manifest in the War Service Industry (WSI). Keywords: nation-state‚ nationalism‚ and War Service
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On December 7‚ 1917‚ the United States officially declared war on Austria-Hungary‚ formally marking their entry into the long and destructive First World War. Despite the United States’ delayed involvement in the war‚ over 320‚000 American soldiers were still wounded or killed. Following the United States’ participation in World War I‚ a definitive shift in foreign policy drew the country to a renewed period of illusory security through isolationism. Less than 12 years later‚ on October 5‚ 1929‚
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