11 sentences with 'nationalism'
Example sentences and phrases with the word nationalism and other words derived from it.
• « It also directly inspired a growing sense of nationalism, not least because the Napoleonic Empire was so distinctly French despite its pretensions to universalism. »
• « In 19th century Europe, a handful of ideologies came to predominate: conservatism, nationalism, liberalism and socialism. »
• « Even before the era of the French Revolution, the seeds of nationalism were planted in the hearts and minds of many Europeans as an aspect of the Romantic movement. »
• « By accident, Romanticism helped plant the seeds of nationalism, thanks to its links with the popular movement. »
• « This resentment coalesced around the new political ideology of nationalism in the early 19th century: just as the "Germans" resented the conservative Austrian regime and the Poles detested the Russian and Prussian states that had divided Polish territory, the Greeks (as well as the Serbs, Croats and other Balkan peoples) increasingly saw themselves as autonomous peoples artificially ruled by a foreign power. »
• « In turn, the main debate that erupted among the delegates was over the form of German nationalism to be adopted: should Germany be a "smaller German" state defined by German speakers and excluding Austria, or a "larger German" state including Austria and all its other ethnicities and languages? »
• « It should be noted, however, that delegates agreed that Polish and Czech nationalism had to be crushed because of German "racial" superiority, an early anticipation of the Germanic ethnocentrism that would eventually give rise to Nazism almost a century later. »
• « As the conservative appropriation of nationalism in the cases of Italy and Germany demonstrates, the stakes of political and cultural identity have changed significantly over the course of the nineteenth century. »
• « In short, the Christian-dominated Balkans that had been part of the Ottoman Empire for centuries slipped away on the strength of modern nationalism and the military support they received from sympathetic European powers. »