CAS HI 101 Chapter 20: Chapter_20--The_Conservative_Order_and_the_Challenges_of_Reform_Outline-4
1 Dec 2016
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Vienna contended that legitimate monarchies and dynasties, rather than ethnicity, provide the basis for political unity which falls in direct opposition to nationalism: nationalist saw the russian and austrian empires in violation of ethnic nationhood, they also objected to peoples of the same ethnic group, such as germans and italians, dwelling in political units smaller than an ethnic nation, the idea of popular sovereignty was key to nationalists because the quality of the people, not the rulers, determine a national character, creating nations. Language: which language to use in schools and in government offices was always a point of contention for nationalists because the chosen language would supplant, or make local dialects obsolete, nationalists often tried to resurrect from earlier times what they regarded as purer versions of national language, the growth of uniform language helped persuade people who had not thought of themselves as constituting a nation that in fact they were one.
