... 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 education ... Gellner's description of the role of the state in education only reflects the situation in the mid twentieth century, though it claims t...

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... and pride in the nation as a Caucasian German? How and what constitutes a nation? Was there a particular time when nationhood emerged and does the commonly held view that the 1789 French Revolution was the definitive moment for the emergence of nations as we know them today still hold to be true? Some my propose that a nation is little more than a set of ... Hobsbawm argued that nationalism had to pre exist the growth of nations and that nations did not exist before the last 200 years, they came into being primarily due to industrial, economic political and social transformation. Hobsba...

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