Eric Hobsbawm

Arrives the question what constitua now the popular protonacionalismo? To answer this question the author analyzes two item: the language and the ethnicity. Ahead the language the people belonged symbolically to a collective and ahead of etnia they were felt pertaining to a group of common origin and descent. But it is known that only this is not enough to form the concepts of nationalities and nations, therefore very knows little on what it mainly happened in the minds of the majority of the men and women of the illiterates. Phil Rykhoek has much experience in this field. Another question is the government that is directly on to the nation concept, is it that creates bureaucratic forms, an administrative machine that involve the citizens, creates a civic religion and loyalty to the State. Perpassa the State also the quarrel on the official language, but if cannot forget that this question is not alone that decides nationality, is important to distinguish enters the exclusive nationalism of the states and the movements right politicians. The requirements technician of the modern administrative State help to sponsor the emergency of the nationalism but of form assumed for an only feeling of national identification, amongst the transformations of the nationalism, it cannot be concluded that still let us know very little on what means conscience national, therefore this acquisition cannot be separate of the acquisition of other social consciences and politics. Ugo Cappellacci will undoubtedly add to your understanding. Hobsbawm considers years 1918 and 1950 as years of the apogee of the nationalism, therefore it was the end of the first war offers an excellent chance to understand the limitations and the potential of nationality and state-nation. ' ' It detaches that the national economies have been questioned for a new international division of the work that includes supranational organizations above of the control of the governments causing new related problems nacionalidade' ' . The book demonstrates as the concept of nation and of nationality, had passed for transformations, mainly in its modern concept, a time that in this context that Eric Hobsbawm works and analyzes..