PIS BARODA STD-10

Chapter-1 The Rise of Nationalism in Europe Frederic Sorrieu’ dream on Nationalism 1.         In 1848, FrédéricSorrieu, a French artist, prepared a series of four prints visualising his dream of a world made up of ‘democratic and social Republics’. 2.          It shows the peoples of Europe and America marching in a long train, and offering homage to the statue of Liberty as they pass by it. 3.         On the earth in the foreground of the image lie the shattered remains of the symbols of absolutistinstitutions. 4.         United States and Switzerland, which by this time were already nation-states. France has just reached the statue. 5.         Following the French people, peoples of Germany, Austria, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Lombardy, Poland, England, Ireland, Hungary and Russia are marching in the long train. From the heavens above, Christ, saints and angels gaze upon the scene. Nation-state Nation-statewas one in which the majority of itscitizensc