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Distinguished University Professorship Lecture and Reception
Victor Lieberman, Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished University Professor of History, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
"Why Were Nationalism and Democracy European? Political Community in Europe and Asia c. 1400-1850"
Between c. 1400 and 1850 societies across Eurasia developed increasingly cohesive, distinctive political cultures. But only in Western Europe did these processes culminate in the peculiar ideology we call nationalism. This lecture seeks to explain both the universality of proto-national sentiment and the reasons for Europe's unusual trajectory.
Between c. 1400 and 1850 societies across Eurasia developed increasingly cohesive, distinctive political cultures. But only in Western Europe did these processes culminate in the peculiar ideology we call nationalism. This lecture seeks to explain both the universality of proto-national sentiment and the reasons for Europe's unusual trajectory.
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