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<p><P>Common wisdom has long held that the ascent of the modern nation coincided with the flowering of Enlightenment democracy and the decline of religion, ringing in an age of tolerant, inclusive, liberal states.<br> Not so, demonstrates Anthony W. Marx in this landmark work of revisionist political history and analysis. In a startling departure from a historical consensus that has dominated views of nationalism for the past quarter century, Marx argues that European nationalism emerged two centuries earlier, in the early modern era, as a form of mass political engagement based on religious conflict, intolerance, and exclusion. Challenging the self-congratulatory geneaology of civic Western nationalism, Marx shows how state-builders attempted to create a sense of national solidarity to support their burgeoning authority. Key to this process was the transfer of power from local to central rulers; the most suitable vehicle for effecting this transfer was religion and fanatical passions.<br> Religious intolerance&#151;specifically the exclusion of religious minorities from the nascent state&#151;provided the glue that bonded the remaining populations together. Out of this often viole

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Author

ANTHONY W. MARX

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781280502293

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Social Science, Social Sciences