This volume explores critical aspects of the rise and expansion of nationalism through key primary documents, from letters and speeches to government documents. Overview articles provide important context to the era, while the curated selection of documents helps make the volume an important starting point for historical research.

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