Abstract: When the final two partitions of the Polish state were implemented, the French Revolutionary Wars, which started a process that forever changed the core political culture of Western Europe, had already begun. Along with "Liberty, Equality, and Brotherhood," the armies of the revolution spread the notion that the borders of a liberal-democratic "nation" were somehow sacred. As the Poles dropped into "national" oblivion, the idea of an innate, "enlightened" sacredness about nations and their borders was commencing its successful rise to prominence in Western European political consciousness.
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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