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Jiang says liberty and population growth together explain the French Empire's power and the broader power of the nation-state.
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Jiang says liberty and population growth together explain the French Empire's power and the broader power of the nation-state.
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He argues that modern French conflict with Islamists follows from this republican nationalism because public religious customs such as hijab conflict with the French nation-state's assimilationist public sphere.
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The Norman conquest drew Britain into French politics and the Hundred Years' War while also transforming English through the fusion of Germanic, French, and Latin elements.
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Jiang links French Huguenot expulsion after the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre to a loss for France and a gain for Protestant countries that later jumpstart industrialization.
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Jiang says the Vikings founded or strongly influenced Germany, France, Britain, and Russia, which he identifies as the dominant military and cultural civilizations of the last 500 years.
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"...the greatest empire in Europe at this time. So this is France in the dark green, and they will colonize and conquer everything in..."
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"It's one of the fundamental ideas of the French Republic. And that's why in today, there's so much antagonism between Islamists and the government...."
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"...the Normans conquered Britain, Britain now is united with parts of France. Okay? So Britain is drawn into the politics of France. Which will..."
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"Latin and French elements blend into Old English, and this creates a new language we call Middle English. And the Middle English, of course,..."
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"...Nordic countries, Switzerland, they will go Protestant. And in the South, France, Spain, Italy, they will remain Catholic. The only exception is this, the..."
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"...they're joined by the nobility. And as such, the King of France, and France is right now the most powerful country in Europe, the..."
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"...either founded or influenced four major European civilizations. They are Germany, France, Britain, and Russia. Now what's interesting is that for the past 500..."
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"...as a direct threat to them, and that's why they invaded France many, many times. But then something really weird happened. These professional armies..."
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"...they were willing to fight and die, okay? And that's why France became the most powerful nation in Europe at this time, because they..."
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"...as they've done in many countries to a large extent already, France, Belgium, Ukraine, United Kingdom. And because what is their game primarily, other..."
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"...interest for agriculture don't forget i was minister of agriculture in france for a month and a half but because it matters to me..."
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"...say we're not going to break off into civil war in France."
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A source-grounded reading of the nation-state as war machine: Rousseau turns liberty into sovereignty, Fichte turns language into blood, Bismarck turns welfare into war infrastructure, Mussolini turns myth into death, and 21st-century war turns...
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Britain becomes empire not because it begins powerful, but because it begins divided, poor, exposed, and forced to change.
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The Protestant Reformation begins as liberation from priest, pope, and ritual.
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