The Nationalism Project.
http://www.nationalismproject.org/what/renan.htm
Open the article and read it then do the following.
Respond to this document in no less than 200 words, discussing how this excerpt from Ernest Renan’s “What is a Nation?” gives a view of nationalism toward the end of the nineteenth century. How does Renan imagine the nation? How are nations formed? What are the purposes of nations?