WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -’the prioritisation of a particular group – the nation – as a key constituting and identifying framework for human beings and their practices’ ‘a positive valorisation is assigned to one’s own nation, granting it specific claims over the conduct of its members’

Detailed explanation-2: -The two main divergent forms are ethnic nationalism and civic nationalism. Nationalism developed at the end of the 18th century, particularly with the French Revolution and the spread of the principle of popular sovereignty (the idea that “the people” should rule).

Detailed explanation-3: -Nationalism may manifest itself as part of official state ideology or as a popular non-state movement and may be expressed along civic, ethnic, cultural, language, religious or ideological lines. These self-definitions of the nation are used to classify types of nationalism.

Detailed explanation-4: -The two main aspects of nationalists movements in the 1800s were: unification, peoples of common culture from different states were joined together, and separation, groups splintered off from their current government to form one that was more representative of their own interests.