... were their aims. Whilst Futurism tied itself to a strongly patriotic sense of Italian nationalism (a trait that led to a smooth transition into Italian fascist politics of the 1930s), French anarchism, by contrast, prided itself on disengaging with any overarching authoritarianism, be it national or otherwise, and therefore inclined itself towards a more localised, communitarian sense of rebellion. ... Although their differences are manifold, both movements hold at their centres a desire for revolution in which art is situated as a central protagonist. In both cases, Futurist and Anarch...

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... frontiers and for the acceptance of political refugees on its territory was to make France a veritable terrorist powder keg. Apart from the revolutionary State terrorism that it encountered during the French revolution, or the terrorism linked to Algerian independence at the beginning of the 1960s, France had never had to face a wave of terrorism on the scale of that which grew up ... countries, the competence of these two courts, as a result of the differences in conception which characterize them, is variable. The Irish Special Criminal Court has a much broader scope than the French s...

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... Empire, suggesting why the Empire was in power for only a short period. Also, Napoleon exported nationalism across Europe following the composition of the Napoleonic Empire. Nationalism was a product of the French Revolution which began in 1789 following a desire for social and political upheaval that united the nation of France. When Napoleon became First Consul in 1799 following the Coup of Brumaire/the ... desire. Prussia was a country which failed to reform for years following it's success as a military state in which they failed to discover a need to reform, but the French Revoluti...

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... imperialist enemy, meaning the legitimacy of the allied empires can be no longer. To truly see this emergence of nationalism, the study of the French Empire is vital and could be a contributing explanation to the collapse of the European Empires. Only second behind Britain, this Empire was still at ... its greatest extent by 1945 but, by 1962 it had lost all its major territories with nationalism emerging throughout this period. The French Union (the new name for the Empire) of 1946 is a clear example of desperation to keep the Empire together with its indissoluble unity.1 The ... was l...

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... assistance, as Cambodia had been suffering from constant threat of invasion from both the Vietnamese and the Thai people. As a result, Cambodia was established under the French protectorate and became part of the so-called French Indochina region. This period, though it brought economic development to the region, also caused a strong sense of nationalism among Cambodians, since they were forced to pay ... heavy taxes to the French regime (Franchini 1988). This sense of nationalism resulted in the French losing their foothold within Cambodia during the Second World War and consequently l...

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... that the political and the national unit should be congruent."# In terms of citizenship, Gellner believes that citizenship rights were launched by the French Revolution, and that the unpleasant and degrading conditions of the proletariat brought about by the Industrial Revolution provided both opportunity and a motive for a growth of political consciousness, exemplified by the formation of organizations such as trade unions. Gellner emphasises ... "foreigner" as somebody who could not communicate with them and was thus isolated from their culture. In France, for example, translations we...

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... concentrate on what they are best at (the formal version of this argument is the theory of ˜comparative advantage'). For example, Britain sells tweed jackets and country sportswear to French aristocrats who pay for it by selling wine to the British. Less obviously, even a country that is not the best in the world at making anything can benefit from free ... much earlier but did not choose to use it to promote economic expansion. Similarly, the nineteenth century proved to be an era of increased international commerce, triggered by the industrial revolution but, in the 1930s, this econo...

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... Realists focused on ethical choices and morality in the life of middle class individuals, often without supporting Christian beliefs. In the eighteenth century, in the period leading up to the French Revolution, which brought about the final collapse of the economic and ideological structure of feudalism, realism took a great step forward, from the depiction of everyday life and manners to depiction of ... ...

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