What is the difference between a nation and a state? The rise of Nationalism

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UNIT 9

THE RISE OF NATIONALISM

PART A: THE RISE OF THE NATION-STATE

  1. Read your text Legacy: The West and The World pp.291-300 and then answer questions #1-3 on page 300

What is the difference between a nation and a state?

 

   The difference between a nation and a state is that a nation is defined as a community of people composed of one or more nationalities and possessing a more or less defined territory and government or a territorial division containing a body of people of one or more nationalities. Where as a state is defined as a body of persons constituting a special class in a society or the operations or concerns of the government of a country.

Based on the example provided, and the context in which the term “nation-state” is used, write a clear definition of the term.

   A clear definition of the term nation state would be a form of political organization under which a relatively homogenous people inhabits a sovereign state.  

Can the term “nation-state” be applied to Canada? Why or why not?

  The term ‘nation-state’ can be applied to Canada due to the fact that we are a country in which form of political organization under which a relatively homogenous people inhabits a sovereign state. We are a multicultural nation that consists of many different nationalities. Such as, Chinese, Japanese, Tamil, Indian, Italian, Jewish, Russian, Spanish, Filipino, Dutch, Irish, English, French, Ukrainian, Middle Eastern and so much more. I think that we have a person from almost every country in the world living in Canada. We open the doors to many people and do not turn them away because we are happy to have them. We all live together in one country under one government.

How did the situations in Russia and Austria in the late nineteenth century differ from those in most other Western European countries?

  The situations in Russia and Austria in the late nineteenth century differ from those in most other Western European countries by in Austria the empire was weakened by nationalism and it became an increasingly anachronism. It became a dynastic state, and not a nation-state. Under the Hapsburg dynasty, the Empire tried to balance of competing nationalistic and dynastic interests became even more complex with the decline of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans. There, Slavic nationalism created new possibilities for Roman influence. In Russia, the monarchy was caught between the desire to preserve a conservative aristocratic order and the need for economic and industrial reform. Russia’s defeat in the Crimean War demonstrated the need from industrialization of the economy and modernization of the army. The most significant change was the emancipation of 22.5 million serfs in 1861. This reform had to satisfy the Russian gentry, however, who feared the loss of their income from land, their control over the peasantry paid the price of reform: while legally free and in possession of limited plots of land, the peasants had to pay an indemnity to the state for their emancipation. The gentry and the reformers had feared that emancipation would create a landless and rootless- and potentially dangerous-rural population. Where as in the other Western European countries nationalism thrived in them and the Empires decided to implement nationalism, industrialization, and modernization into their countries.

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  1. Next read your text pp.300-309 and answer questions 1-3 on page 309

Compare and contrast the styles and policies of British Prime Ministers William Gladstone and Benjamin Disreali. Which politician would you have supported? Explain your choice.

    In 1867, Prime Minister Benjamin Disreali and the Conservatives passed a Second Reform Act, which granted the vote to the male urban working class householders, thereby adding one million voters to the list. Unlike, his party, Benjamin Disreali was an optimist and knew how to seize opportunity, his optimism rested on his belief that a natural alliance ...

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