Ernest Renan: “What Is a Nation?”
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Ernest Renan: “What Is a Nation?”
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Abstract
The idea of a nation, though apparently clear, has been greatly misapprehended. Human society exists under forms most various. There are great agglomerations of men, as in China, Egypt, and ancient Babylonia; tribes, as among the Hebrews and the Arabs; cities, like Athens and Sparta; unions of different countries, as in the Achoemenidian, the Roman and the Carlovingiau empires; communities without a country, where the members are held together by a religious bond, like the Israelites and the Parsees
Contents
- The Nation
- New States and Old Problems
- Nationalism and Bourgeois Culture
- Declaration of Independence
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
- Constitution of Haiti
- Louisiana Purchase Treaty
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Addresses to the German Nation
- Napoleonic Code
- Simón Bolívar: Cartagena Manifesto
- Holy Alliance
- Giuseppe Mazzini: General Instructions for the Members of Young Italy
- Constitution Act of Canada
- Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia: Proclamation of 1849
- Victor Emmanuel: Address to Parliament
- Ottoman Constitution
- Helmuth von Moltke: Memorandum of the Councils of War Said to Have Been Held during the Wars
- Ernest Renan: “What Is a Nation?”
- William Gladstone: Irish Home Rule Speech
- Theodor Herzl: “A Solution to the Jewish Question”
- Francisco García Calderón: Latin America: Its Rise and Progress
- Proclamation of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic
- Woodrow Wilson: Fourteen Points
- Korean Declaration of Independence
- Treaty of Versailles
- Government of India Act
- Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel
- Proclamation of the Algerian National Liberation Front