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nationalism in the sixteenth century. He was keenly aware (p.
4) that there was no nationalism in the modern sense before
the sixteenth century when the modern state system of Europe
emerged:
The states which composed this new system were
very different from the “nations” of primitive tribesmen.
They were much larger and much looser. They were more
in the nature of agglomerations of peoples with diverse
languages and dialects and with divergent traditions and
institutions. In most of them a particular people, a
particular nationality, constituted the core and furnished
the governing class and the official language, and in all of
them minority as well as majority nationalities usually
evinced a high degree of loyalty to a common monarch or
“sovereign”. They were referred to, in contradistinction to