printed word in first visualizing the vernacular and then 
creating that homogeneous mode of association which permits 
modern industry, markets, and the visual enjoyment of national 
status. He writes (p. 61):

          The “nation in arms” was one Jacobin concept of 
     great significance for nationalist propaganda. The “nation 
     in public schools” was another. Previous to the French 
     Revolution, it had long and generally been held that 
     children belonged to their parents and that it was for 
     parents to determine what schooling, if any, their children 
     should have.

     Liberty, equality and fraternity found their most natural, 
if least imaginative, expression in the uniformity of the 
revolutionary citizen armies. They were not only exact