Practice question · Multiple choice
Historians describe Italy and Germany as cases where the state produced the nation rather than the other way round. What kind of evidence supports that claim?
Hints
- Ask what happened to regional languages and local loyalties in the decades after the states were founded.
- The famous remark that Italy had been made and Italians still had to be points at exactly this.
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B. Schools, conscription, railways and a standardised language spread national identity after unification, not before it
Why
The evidence is institutional and it is datable: literacy campaigns, a national curriculum, universal conscription mixing regions in one army, and rail networks that made a national market and a national press possible. Weber traced the same process in France, where a state far older than Italy was still nationalising its peasantry in the 1880s.
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