MAKING SENSE OF 19TH CENTURY NATIONALISM.

NATIONALISM; NINETEENTH century; EUROPEAN history; WORLD history; HAYES, Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley), 1882-1964; TELEVISION broadcasting of news; CURRENT events education

The article focuses on the nineteenth century nationalism. It notes that nationalism is a political force which has been forming the history of Europe and the world. It relates that the political potency of nationalism in contemporary world affairs is strengthened everyday by global television journalism as the remaining single cause of inter-state conflict. It cites that historian Carlton Hayes defined the evolution of nationalism in five stages, namely, humanitarian enlightenment, romantic traditional, liberal unification and integral chauvinistic.