What role did liberalism play in the growth of nationalism in Europe, especially in either Italy or Germany?

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16 December 2008

The Role of Liberalism in the Growth of Nationalism in Western Europe

Introduction

Scholars date Nationalism back to the middle of the 18th-the beginning of the 19th century , when Europe was in the center of the expanding political turmoil . Since the middle of the 19th century , with the emergence of new liberalist beliefs , Western European states were gradually coming to realize the importance of the term Nation ' in its modern form . While liberalism was placing emphasis on the role

of culture and language in the social and economic development of the European states , Western Europe was trying to evaluate the scope of tension and incongruence between the perceived cultural and the cultural realities within its states . Liberalism was gradually turning into republicanism , which strove for unification of ethnic and cultural lands and was the necessary prerequisite of national (or nationalist renaissance . Liberalism played an important role in the emergence and development of nationalism in Western Europe but it was actually republicanism that has become the foundation for the spreading of nationalist moods across the 19th century 's Western Europe

In the 19th century 's Europe , the new liberalism was synonymous to revolution - the revolution that sought to disrupt the stability of monarchic structure and to deny the unquestionable power of church Liberals promoted the idea that government must be limited to specific powers by a written constitution . [ .] They also wanted representative or parliamentarian , government in that sense...