TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bell,David A.
TI  - The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800
SN  - 9780674020726
AV  - DC121 
U1  - 320.5/4/0944/09033 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Nationalism-France-History
KW  - French language-Political aspects
KW  - National characteristics, French
KW  - France-Politics and government-17th century
KW  - France-Politics and government-18th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Constructing the Nation -- 1. The National and the Sacred -- 2. The Politics of Patriotism and National Sentiment -- 3. English Barbarians, French Martyrs -- 4. National Memory and the Canon of Great Frenchmen -- 5. National Character and the Republican Imagination -- 6. National Language and the Revolutionary Crucible -- Conclusion: Toward the Present Day and the End of Nationalism -- Notes -- Note on Internet Appendices and Bibliography -- Index
N2  - In a work of lucid prose and striking originality, Bell offers the first comprehensive survey of patriotism and national sentiment in early modern France, and shows how the dialectical relationship between nationalism and religion left a complex legacy that still resonates in debates over French national identity today
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