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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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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By WinnieYin The Analysis of Antithesis in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130 【Summary】This paper is a study of the approach of antithesis‚ which is embodied in Shakespeare’s sonnet 18 and sonnet 130. By the comparison between his fair friend and a summer’s day‚ we can see the contrast is one of the major approaches employed in these two sonnets. This is an effective way to make the objective prominent. While his greatness does not lie in the adoption of this common way of writing‚ it lies in
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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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Summary In this poem‚ the speaker invokes a series of metaphors to characterize the nature of what he perceives to be his old age. In the first quatrain‚ he tells the beloved that his age is like a “time of year‚” late autumn‚ when the leaves have almost completely fallen from the trees‚ and the weather has grown cold‚ and the birds have left their branches. In the second quatrain‚ he then says that his age is like late twilight‚ “As after sunset fadeth in the west‚” and the remaining light is
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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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