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| Introduction | |
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| God's Firstborn: England | |
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| Reflection of the National Consciousness in Discourse and Sentiment | |
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| The New Aristocracy, the New Monarchy, and the Protestant Reformation | |
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| The English Bible, the Bloody Regiment of Queen Mary, and the Burning Matter of Dignity | |
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| England as God's Peculiar People, and the Token of His Love | |
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| The Sound of Their Voices | |
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| The Changing Position of the Crown and Religion in the National Consciousness | |
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| A Land of Experimental Knowledge | |
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| The Three Identities of France | |
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| The Development of Pre-National French Identity France--a Church, and the Faith of the "Fleur de Lys" | |
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| Heresy and Its Child | |
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| The King and His State | |
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| The Social Bases of the Nationalization of French Identity and the Character of the Nascent National Consciousness | |
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| Turns of the Social Wheel: The Plight of the French Aristocracy | |
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| The Perilous Escape: Redefinition and Reorganization of the Noblesse | |
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| The Birth of the French Nation | |
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| Nation, the Supreme Being | |
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| Competition with England and Ressentiment | |
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| A Note on Non-Elite Nationalism | |
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| The Scythian Rome: Russia | |
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| Perestroika in the Eighteenth Century | |
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| The Crisis of the Nobility | |
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| The West and Ressentiment | |
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| The Laying of the Foundations | |
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| Transvaluation of Values: The Crystallization of the Matrix of Russian Nationalism | |
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| The Two-Headed Eagle | |
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| The Final Solution of Infinite Longing: Germany | |
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| The Setting | |
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| The Conception and Miscarriage of Nationalism in the Sixteenth Century | |
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| The Early Evolution of the Concept of the State | |
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| The Insouciance of German Nobility prior to the Nineteenth Century | |
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| Bildungsburgertum: The Dangerous Class | |
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| The Birth of the Spirit: The Preparation of the Mold for the German National Consciousness | |
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| Aufklarung | |
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| Pietism | |
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| Romanticism | |
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| The Materialization of the Spirit | |
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| The Impact of the French Revolution | |
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| The Birth of German Nationalism | |
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| The Finishing Touch: Ressentiment | |
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| The Twin Blossoms of the Blue Flower | |
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| In Pursuit of the Ideal Nation: The Unfolding of Nationality in America | |
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| America as a New England | |
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| The Separation | |
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| A Union Begun by Necessity | |
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| The Tug-of-War: The Persisting Threat of Secession and the Development of National Unity | |
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| Inconsistencies and Tensions | |
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| The Trial and Completion of American Nationality | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |