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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