HIST 1000 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Manifesto Of Futurism, Invented Tradition

• School: Fordham University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 1000
• Professor: Giulia Crisanti

Document Summary

Nations and nationalism since 1780, eric j. hobsbawm. Not as old as history but the product of modernism. Requiring modern conditions: mass society, public education, urbanization, circulation of ideas, industrialization, administrative uniformity. Against retrospective nationalism : idea that nations have existed perennially and their origins can be rooted in the past. The nation as a set of invented traditions , an invention nationalisms make nations. The community of those who share similar traits language, blood, history, and tradition. To the german nation, johann g fichte, 1805. Enthusiasm for everything that is modern and mechanic. A break with the past and its immobility.