nationalism key facts Flashcards
Rousseau books
the social contract 1762, considerations on the government of Poland 1772
The third clause of the French post-revolutionary constitution of 1791 was influenced by Rousseau’s ideas:
‘The source of all sovereignty is essentially in the nation; no body, no individual can exercise authority that does not proceed from it in plain terms.’
what pro-monarchy, antisemitic and anti-democratic journal did Murras find?
In 1899 he founded a journal called Action Française
Von herder book
Treaties on the Origin of Language 1772
Von Herder quote
thus “has a people anything dearer than the speech of its fathers? In its speech resides its whole thought domain, its tradition, history religion and basis of life, all heart and soul ……. The best culture of a people cannot be expressed through a foreign language, it thrives on the soil of a nation most beautiful”.
Where can much of Murras’s ideology be found?
Much of his philosophy can be found in the Front national led by Marine Le Pen.
The Duties of Man (1860): quote
‘A country is not a mere territory, the particular territory is only its foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together the sons of that territory.’
As a pan africanist, what did garvey find?
he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association, an attempt to counteract the lack of education that so many Africans and African Americans had experienced. He also published a journal, Negro World, to encourage black education.
Message to the People 1937
‘This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons of literature to impress scattered Ethiopia [i.e. Africa], especially that portion within their civilization, with the idea that Africa is a despised place, inhabited by savages, and cannibals, where no civilized human being should go, especially black civilized human beings. This propaganda is promulgated for the cause that is being realized today. That cause is colonial expansion for the white nations of the world.’
What sate did Garvey become involved in?
In the nineteenth century the state of Liberia had been set up in North Africa by anti-slavery campaigners in the USA as a new home for freed slaves. Garvey lost interest when it became apparent it would fail- by the 1920s it was clear his ideals hadnt been realised
