GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Scottish National Party, Scottish Clan, Ottoman Empire
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1995: 49. 4% of quebec population voted in favour of separation from canada. Sep 2014, 45% scots voted in favour from independence from the rest of uk. Its union with england and wales dates from 1707. 2007 8 belgium had no national government for over 18 months because of feuding between french and dutch speakers. So we cannot assume a common culture even in long established nation states in the global north. 2015 election: 56 out of 59 mp"s elected for scottish nationalist party; 3 major" parties elected one mp each. In early 18th century: uk, span, france, russia, prussia, ottoman empire etc. The nation state was a dominant feature of the treaty of versailles at end of wwi. 19c liberal economies emphasize free trade, minimum border constraints (nothing to impede free flow of goods and services) But there are 16 areas of regional nationalism in western europe at present, urging further political division on cultural grounds.
