GEOG-120 Lecture 19: Physical Geography - 19
24 Sep 2020
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Community of people with common culture and ancestry. Bound by a strong sense of unity, shared beliefs and customs. Does not imply an independent political unit: e. g. Quebecois a distinct society in canada: 1995 referendum: quebec separatism. Nation and state occupy the same space: examples: japan, poland, iceland, denmark. Peace of westphalia (treaty), 1648: europe begins to take a political territorial order . Laid the foundations for europe being made up of territorially defined co-existing states. The interference in the internal affairs of a country was the first offence of international law. The european concept of the state and sovereignty was exported to much of the world through colonialism. The model established and defined the ground rules of the capitalist world economy and its interdependencies. Nations without states: kurds, basques, quebecois. States with more than one nation within its borders: e. g. Requires feelings of belonging among a group of people.
