... economies of industrialized states depend upon a homogenizing high culture, mass literacy and an educational system controlled by the state. In a sense, a Marxist ideology can be found in such theories, exemplified by Nairn, who believes that nationalism is the product of the uneven development of regions within a world capitalist economy. "As capitalism spread and smashed the ancient social formations ... industrialism, he argues in "Nations and Nationalism", and the importance of an advanced division of labour which prompted a different education system which provided people with the b...

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... and possibly more importantly culture and its diversity including education, literature, music to national dress and celebrations. Not to mention other influencing factors of ethnicity, national symbols and heroes and language. What does it mean to say that there is a national history of consciousness, for example in the light of WWII can a 21st century Jew share an innate feeling of ... there are three different approaches to this issue pre-modernist, modernist and post modernist though the lines of distinction between these categories are at times somewhat unclear with all three theo...

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