Emergence Of Nationalism Essay

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Question 1: What Causes the Emergence of Nationalism Anderson notes that the emergence of nationalism was made possible by “a half-fortuitous, but explosive, interaction between a system of production…, a technology…., and the fatality of human linguistic diversity” (p. 43). The “system of production” refers to capitalism, a “technology” refers to the invention and use of the printing press, and the “fatality of linguistic diversity” refers to the eventual adoption of certain languages to dominate certain geographic areas. Print-capitalism made it possible for rapidly growing numbers of people to think about themselves and to relate themselves to others in new ways (p. 36). The spread of capitalism was aided by three extraneous factors, two of which contributed directly to the rise of national consciousness. The first was a change in the character of Latin itself. Early pre-Christian literature was spreading through the print-market. Second was the impact of the Reformation, which owed much of its success to print-capitalism. Before the age of print, Rome easily won …show more content…

At least 20,000,000 books had already by printed in Europe by 1500, and as many as 200,000,000 had been manufactured by 1600. Once consequence to this was that more-or-less fixed written versions of French, German, and English were taken out of Europe’s large range of spoken languages in this period. Profit was fatal to European linguistic diversity. Publishers would not produce translations of Luther’s sermons in every variant dialect of the French countryside; they instead translated them into the print-language “French,” which French literates were then behooved to learn. These new print-languages created unified fields of exchange and communication in a way that offered a totally new form of imagined community. Print-language was a necessary, but not sufficient condition for nationalism (p.

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