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Nationalism Was More Important As A Product Rather Than A Cause Of National Unification (Breuilly). Discuss.
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Nationalism Was More Important As A Product Rather Than A Cause Of National Unification (Breuilly). Discuss. Nationalism was an indistinct movement that could be seen to have its roots in Medieval Europe in writers such as Dante, Marcu, and Domenichi, but did not manifest itself in the political arena until the mid-19th century. Europe, at this time was in the middle of a period of prolonged social development that had gradually been changing the political and social framework of the continent. One of the more significant and widespread developments between 1815-1914 was the shift in political orientation from the monarchic to the nationalist state via what Sperber calls 'the European Revolutions'. Breuilly defines nationalism as, "political movements seeking or exercising or seeking state power, and justifying such action with nationalist arguments"1. The arguments that nationalists employed took the form of political doctrine built upon three major assumptions. Firstly, that...
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