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Common wisdom has long held that the ascent of the modern nation coincided with the flowering of Enlightenment democracy and the decline of religion, ringing in an age of tolerant, inclusive, liberal states. Not so, demonstrates Anthony W. Marx in this landmark work of revisionist political history and analysis. In a startling departure from a historical consensus that has dominated views of nationalism for the past quarter century, Marx argues that European nationalism emerged two centuries earlier, in the early modern era, as a form of mass political engagement based on religious conflict, intolerance, and exclusion. Challenging the self-congratulatory geneaology of civic Western nationalism, Marx shows how state-builders attempted to create a sense of national solidarity to support their burgeoning authority. Key to this process was the transfer of power from local to central rulers; the most suitable vehicle for effecting this transfer was religion and fanatical passions. Religious intolerance--specifically the exclusion of religious minorities from the nascent state--provided the glue that bonded the remaining populations together. Out of this often violent religious intolerance grew popular nationalist sentiment. Only after a core and exclusive nationality was formed in England and France, and less successfully in Spain, did these countries move into the "enlightened" 19th century, all the while continuing to export intolerance and exclusion to overseas colonies. Providing an explicitly political theory of early nation-building, rather than an account emphasizing economic imperatives or literary imaginings, Marx reveals that liberal, secular Western political traditions were founded on the basis of illiberal, intolerant origins. His provocative account also suggests that present-day exclusive and violent nation-building, or efforts to form solidarity through cultural or religious antagonisms, are not fundamentally different from the West's own earlier experiences.
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这本书实在是一部令人深思的佳作，它以一种近乎冥想的笔触，勾勒出个体在时代洪流中的挣扎与坚韧。作者对于人性的洞察力简直令人惊叹，笔下的人物并非脸谱化的符号，而是活生生的、充满矛盾的灵魂。我尤其欣赏其中对于“选择”这一主题的探讨。它没有给出简单的对错标准，而是将读者置于一个又一个道德的灰色地带，迫使我们审视自己内心深处的价值观。故事的节奏把握得极其精妙，时而如微风拂面，娓娓道来，时而又猛地收紧，爆发出惊人的张力。读到某些关键转折点时，我甚至需要放下书本，静坐良久，消化其中蕴含的巨大信息量和情感冲击。这本书的魅力在于它拒绝提供廉价的慰藉，而是提供了一种更深刻的理解，即生命本身就是一场充满不确定性的、对意义的不断追寻。它不仅仅是一个故事，更像是一面镜子，映照出我们每个人内心深处的渴望与恐惧。那种文字的质感，像是陈年的威士忌，醇厚而有力，每一次回味都会有新的感悟浮现。
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评分nationalism is not a historical given, but constructed and manipulated by state authority for instrumentalist purpose. The national consciousness burgeoned at least 2 centuries before the actual nationalism came into existence...
评分nationalism is not a historical given, but constructed and manipulated by state authority for instrumentalist purpose. The national consciousness burgeoned at least 2 centuries before the actual nationalism came into existence...
评分nationalism is not a historical given, but constructed and manipulated by state authority for instrumentalist purpose. The national consciousness burgeoned at least 2 centuries before the actual nationalism came into existence...
评分nationalism is not a historical given, but constructed and manipulated by state authority for instrumentalist purpose. The national consciousness burgeoned at least 2 centuries before the actual nationalism came into existence...
评分nationalism is not a historical given, but constructed and manipulated by state authority for instrumentalist purpose. The national consciousness burgeoned at least 2 centuries before the actual nationalism came into existence...
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