"Vince Brannigan" wrote in message
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William Black wrote:

In reality the idea of the 'nation state' emerged in Western Europe in
the
fifteenth century, a good illustration being the Hundred Years War
which
started as a fight between feudal magnates and ended as a war between
England and France.

nation states had of course emerged elsewhere at earlier times. Nations
, the latin "gens "had a long-standing albeit complex development
process.

Those tended to be city states that got big or were the product of a single
man driven to build an empire.

The nation state, with the co-incident 'national identity' is later, and
still with us.

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William Black
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