How did nationalist thinkers define "the nation"?

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Aryan Ruiz

15 May, 07:27

How did nationalist thinkers define "the nation"?

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Martha Barry · Answer 1

They defined it in terms of shared language and shared history.

A nation was a place with a single language because languages existed before nations and country names and territory changes but the language stays the same, only evolves as time changes. Shared history is based on the idea that people of a territory and their ancestors share history and are thus bound in a nation.