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La Marseillaise, as its creation is depicted in this painting, was an emblem of the first authentic popular waves of Nationalism in modern European history. Link: http://www.histoire-image.org/pleincadre/index.php?i=381
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In reaction to Napoleon's control, German philosopher Fichte said in his nationalistic "Adresses to the German People": "German love of fatherland has lost its place; it shall get another, a wider and deeper one; there in peace and obscurity it shall establish itself and harden itself like steel, and at the right moment break forth in youthful strength and restore to the State its lost independence." http://www.archive.org/stream/addressestothege00fichuoft/addressestothege00fichuoft_djvu.txt
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The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from the Third Act of "Nabucco" is an excellent example of the patriotism during the Risorgimento. Fly, thought, on wings of gold;
go settle upon the slopes and the hills,
where, soft and mild, the sweet airs
of our native land smell fragrant! Greet the banks of the Jordan
and Zion's toppled towers...
Oh, my country, so beautiful and lost!
Oh, remembrance, so dear and so fatal! The complete lyrics can be found here:
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Philipp Veit's "Germania" clearly reveals the nationalistic fervor present in Germany in the post-Napoleonic period.
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"Farewell to Europe" by Aleksander A Sochaczewski, is a Romantic and dramatic homage to the tragic faith of the Polish nationalistic dream; it is an homage to sacrifice in the pursuit of nationalistic dreams. Link: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Farewell_Europe!.PNG
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The underlying feature of the outbreak of the Great War is the hypernationalism of the European powers at the beginning of the twentieth century. The inflammatory propaganda of the period might be to blame for the destructiveness of the war. This is an example of French anti-German propaganda. Link: http://www.histoire-image.org/pleincadre/index.php?t=121&d=21&i=1143
