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What is the primary characteristic of the primordialism perspective on nations?
Nations are perennial identities with deep historical roots
What is the main argument of Charles Tilly's perspective on state-building?
States make war and war makes states
What is Max Weber's definition of a state?
An organization with a monopoly of legitimate violence within a given territory
What is the outcome of the transformation from multinational dynastic empires to modern territorial states?
Increasing state centralization, military mobilization, and taxation
What is the idea of the nation-state as an extended family based on?
The political structure of modern territorial states
What is Ernest Gellner's main emphasis in his perspective on nations?
The role of industrial society in necessitating a homogeneous high culture
What is the primary difference between the modernist and primordialist perspectives on nations?
Modernists view nations as evolving entities, while primordialists view them as fixed and unchanging
What role does Benedict Anderson attribute to 'print-capitalism' in the context of nationalism?
Fostering imagined communities and creating languages of power
Eugene Weber's work primarily focuses on the emergence of national identities in which country?
France
What is the primary characteristic of an 'ethnic nation'?
Based on shared ethnic identity, whether real or fictive
Anthony D. Smith argues that nationalism contains which elements?
Both civic and ethnic elements in varying degrees
What is the primary idea behind Benedict Anderson's concept of 'imagined communities'?
Nation as an imagined community, made possible by modernity
What concept does Ernest Renan propose to describe the nation?
Daily plebiscite
What term does Michael Billig introduce to describe the reproduction of the nation?
Banal nationalism
Which of the following best describes the key takeaway from Anderson's concept of 'imagined communities'?
National identity is sustained by modern technologies and cultural artifacts
Test your understanding of the origins of nations, including the concepts of primordialism and modernism, and how they relate to state-formation and multinational dynastic empires.
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