What Created The Capacity to Imagine Communities?
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Rise of Print-Capitalism
Decline of
Interlinked Cultural Certainties
Rise of the Newspaper in the America's
The Rise of the Nationalist Model of the America's
(18th and Early 19th Centuries)
Final Shift From
Colonies to Nation States
Bilingual Intelligentsias in the Colonies
- The paradox: This group was essentially created from the policy of official nationalism.
- Metropole gave them educational access to models of nationhood from both America and Europe
- These models were adapted by the bilingual intelligentsias (who felt little attachment to the administrative bourgoisies) to form new nations and nationalisms.
Dynastic Policy of Official Nationalism
The Rise of Nationalism in Europe
- Reaction to the start of popular European national movements.
- Developed as an anticipatory strategy by threatened dynastic and aristocratic power groups.
- Aimed to naturalize and retain dynastic power