![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() URL go to publisher's site Language English Note - Based on the Ernest Gellner Memorial Lecture held at the London School of Economics. State system, and we gain a better understanding of the granulated, localized social basis of such movements and the translocally Nations and nationalism are necessary, however, in that they are inextricably bound up with the transition from agrarian to industrial societies and, more. We can avoid the finalism of studying regionalist and nationalist movements in the analytical framework of the post‐Versailles This is the sense in which Gellner originally referred to nationalism as inventing nations, rather than being an expression of their awakening to self-consciousness (Gellner 1964: 168). Social focus and placing it (or rather, its ideal‐type ‘Urbania’) alongside Gellner's ideal‐types of ‘Megalomania’ and ‘Ruritania’, In German cultural nationalism and its transnational knock‐on effect in the Baltic Provinces). ![]() Reticulation of city‐based practices into a nationwide and nation‐building network (sample cases: the role of choral societies Three patterns are surveyed: the modern‐national assimilation of medieval and early‐modern cityĬultures (sample case: Orléans and the French cult of Joan of Arc) the modular replication across cities of urban festivalsĪs cultural mobilizers (sample case: the spread of Floral Games festivals in Southern France and Northern Spain) the This article attempts to map the relations between nation‐building processes in 19th‐century Europe and city cultures with nationalism which Ernest Gellner once defined as primarily ‘a political principle which holds that the political and the national unit should be congruent’ (Gellner 1983, p. ![]()
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