HIS 2341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Economic Miracle, Xenophobia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: History
• Course: HIS 2341
• Professor: Hernan Tesler- Mabe

Document Summary

Own royal house, own parliament, own constitution, regional symbols (coins), stamps, railway service, etc. Heimat homeland national ethos, feeling of belonging. Scholars that argue that the nationalist impulse creates the nation. Nationalism is led initially by the middle class. Nationalism is propelled by things, ideas, narratives, etc. An attempt to create support for the project. Nationalism overtime becomes increasingly xenophobic, exclusionary, and dangerous. Wars drained national resources (revolutionary period and napoleonic period = warfare) Empires weren"t strong, no german empire, etc. France: predominantly agrarian and produces luxury goods, by 1850, less than 3000km of railroad tracks.