HIS201H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Young Turk Revolution, Kurdish Chiefdoms, Turkification
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Collective striving for territorial autonomy social unity and political sovereignty. Stages of nationalism: scholarly passion with people"s past. Intellectuals and journalists popularize and disseminate idea of love for the nation to increasingly literate public: mass movement striving to actualize the ideas of a nation in a nation state. Nationalism awakes dormant nations to self consciousness. Distinction between secular and ethnic, civic and primordial, western and eastern. Nationalism invents nations where none existed before **** important. Industrializm is nationalism"s main condition of emergence in europe. Secularlization: divine authority and hierarchical dynastic legitimacy eroded when print captialism and vernacular literary culture appears. This view mostly fits for european countries than is projected outwards. Recent scholarly view 2 nationalism in the non west= anti colonial marker of cultural difference. Nationalism generates communities wordwide that imagine themselves as sovereign and territorially bounded. Middle east paths to nationalism in 4 types: ******: minority into nation state, overcoming sectarianism, from ottomanism to arabism, resistance to authoritarian.
