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‘Nations are not something eternal. They began, so they will come to an end. A European confederation will probably replace them. But such is not the law of the age in which we live’ [Renan in 19: p. 59]. So wrote the French historian Ernest Renan in his celebrated article Qu’est-ce qu’une nation? (1882), one of the richest and most original essays on the subject of national identity to appear in the nineteenth century.
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Zimmer, O. (2003). Introduction. In: Nationalism in Europe, 1890–1940. Studies in European History. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-4388-0_1
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