POLSCI 397 Midterm: Essay outline 2
19 Oct 2018
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Second question: anthony d. smith outlines a prehistory of the modern nation. As a perennialist, he argues that the core of the modern nation lies in its ethnic cultural origins and without these, the modern nation as we know it would not have began. Evaluate this theory and give a critical analysis of his argument. In both cases, they involve incorporating people, land, and culture into a cohesive unit by presenting a shared past. The fact that these ethnies can be pure mythology (and not within the realm of the craft of historians) does not change their impact. The aspirations of many nations have been defined by these ethnies. Modern nations would not exist today without the foundation of ethnic and cultural origins of its past. Anthony d. smith, in his origins of a nation, describes the importance of the. Pre-history of a state and how it facilitates the creation of a modern nation.
