Nationality in modern history

J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

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• Nationalism
• Europe

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1980IN MODERN HISTORYNATIONALITYCOMPANYTHE MACMILLAN
CHICAGO DALLASNEW YORK BOSTON
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CO. OF CANADA, LTD.THE MACMILLAN
TORONTOINNATIONALITY MODERN
HISTORY
BY
HOLLAND Lixx.D.J. ROSE,
FELLOW OF CHRIST'S CAMBRIDGECOLLEGE,
READER IN MODERN HISTORY TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
MEMBER OF THECORRESPONDING MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1916
All reservedrightsPREFACE
I-VIII of this series were delivered atLECTURES Cambridge
in the Michaelmas Term of and Lectures IX andX are1915;
based on those which I delivered in December last to the
Historical Associations at and Bristol. aimBirmingham My
has been to the variedhistorical,throughout namely, study
manifestations of the chiefNationality among European
it. Ibefore to or define Thatpeoples, attempting analyze
to do in It is thathave Lecture VIII.sought noteworthy
in times has andrecent become a consciousonly T^ajdonality
from the ofjiefimte_jBAYment. Machiavelli,"Apart writings
where that instinct notfigures dimly, it^^.5 (I believe)
treated writer before the Then anby any year anony-j758.)
mous Swiss out a book entitled "Von dem Na-brought
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tionalstolze National in which he discussed its(Of Pride),
and bad characteristics. I have no in which togood space
summarize his but at some it breathes thework; points spirit
of Schiller's Wilhelm the inner of which I haveTell, meaning
to in Lecture III.sought portray
I these studies several and inbegan years ago, early 1916
was about to them. Most of conclusions havecomplete my
not been modified the but the dis-war;by present questions
cussed in lectures ofthe later arise out that conflict. There,
as I treatment has been as andelsewhere, my objectivehope,
as conditions admit. Lack of hasimpartial present space
a of the lesser national movements inprecluded study Europe
and of all similar movements outside of I thisEurope. regret
latter omission because the of in thegrowth Nationality
United Statesand the British Commonwealths is adeveloping
wider and sentiment which makes forcosmopolitan peace.vi PREFACE
At we are confronted ofpresent, however, by Nationality
the old and to it with sneers as to itstype; pass by being
does not further the international cause. Aantiquated
careful of and conditions is the firststudy past present req-
uisite for success in the construction of the healthier Euro-
which to from thepean conflict;polity ought emerge present
and criticisms suchof German Socialists as will be found in
Lectures IX and I if is tomankindX, are, believe, necessary
avoid a of the disastrous blunders ofrepetition 1914.July,
"
The sense which I attach to the words "race," people,"
"
as fol-nation," "nationality," "nationalism," is, briefly,
lows: For the reasons stated in Lecture I haveVIII, rarely
used the word and then as a"race," only quasi-scientific
term. The word I have used as"people" generally implying
a close sense of "nation" as akinship; political term, desig-
a which has attained to statenating people organization;
the concrete as a which has(in sense)"nationality" people
not attained to but I have referred toyet it; nearly always
in the ideal anas"Nationality," sense, namely, aspiration
towards united national existence. In Lecture IX I have
used "Nationalism" to denote the intolerant and aggressive
instinct which has of late in and thedeveloped Germany
Balkan States.
thanks are due to Professor Litt. D.My Bury, Regius
Professor of Modern in the ofHistory University Cambridge;
to of the Institut de Com-Deschamps superieur
merce of resident in to Mr. G. P.(now ;Antwerp Cambridge)
M. Scholar ofGooch, A., formerly Trinity College, Cambridge;
and to Mr. A. B. M. ofStudent ChristHinds, A., formerly
for their valued advice and criticism.Church, Oxford,
H. R.J.
February, 1916.