| Title | The cult of the nation in France: inventing nationalism, 1680-1800 |
| Publication Type | Book |
| Year of Publication | 2001 |
| Authors | David Avrom Bell |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| City | Cambridge, Mass. |
| ISBN Number | 0-674-00447-7 978-0-674-00447-4 |
| Abstract | "Using eighteenth-century France as a case study, David Bell offers an important new argument about the origins of nationalism. Before the eighteenth century, the very idea of nation-building - a central component of nationalism - did not exist. During this period, leading French intellectual and political figures came to see perfect national unity as a critical priority, and so sought ways to endow all French people with the same language, laws, customes, and values. The period thus gave rise to the first large-scale nationalist program in history."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Short Title | The cult of the nation in France |