Top Highlights

• the French Revolution, which appears to have used the term in the manner pioneered by Americans and more especially the Dutch revolution of 1783,8 thought of patriots as those who showed the love of their country by wishing to renew it by reform or revolution. And the patrie to which their loyalty lay, was the opposite of an existential, pre-existi...
• The initial view of the experts was that the `nationality' of an individual would not be established by census questions, except in the sense in which the French gave to the word, namely the person's state citizenship. In this sense language was irrelevant to 'nationality', though in practice this meant simply that the French, and anyone else who a...
• For the rest, the position of the writer may be summarized as follows.(i) I use the term `nationalism' in the sense defined by Gellner, namely to mean `primarily a principle which holds that the political and national unit should be congruent.'15 I would add that this principle also implies that the political duty of Ruritanians to the polity which...
• I follow his useful division of the history of national movements into three phases. In nineteenth-century Europe, for which it was developed, phase A was purely cultural, literary and folkloric, and had no particular political or even national implications, any more than the researches (by non-Romanies) of the Gypsy Lore Society have for the subje...
• it was, or certainly soon became, part of the concept of the nation in the era of the Revolutions that it should be, in the French phrase, `one and indivisible'. 13 The `nation' so considered, was the body of citizenswhose collective sovereignty constituted them a state which was their political expression. For, whatever else a nation was, the elem...