... 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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