Nation state: Difference between revisions

=== Spain ===

{{See also|Spanish nationalism}}

 

While historical monarchies often brought together different kingdoms/territories/ethnic groups under the same crown, in modern nation states political elites seek a uniformity of the population, leading to state nationalism.<ref>{{cite book |date=2014 |first=Michel |last=Pastoureau |chapter=Des armoiries aux drapeaux |language=fr |trans-chapter=From coats of arms to flags |edition=du Seuil |isbn=978-2-7578-4106-8 |title=Une histoire symbolique du Moyen Âge |publisher=Ed. du Seuil |trans-title=A symbolic history of the Middle Ages}}</ref><ref>[{{cite journal |date=1978 |last=Connor |doi=10.1080/01419870.1978.9993240 |issue=4 |first=Walker |journal=Ethnic and Racial Studies |pages=377–400 |title=A Nation is a Nation, is a State, is an Ethnic Group, is a... |volume=1}}</ref> In the case of the Christian territories of the future [[Spain]], neighboring [[Al-Andalus]], there was an early perception of ethnicity, faith and shared territory in the Middle Ages (13th-14th centuries), as documented by the [[Chronicle of Muntaner]] in the proposal of the [[Kingdom of Toledo (Crown of Castile)|Castilian king]] to the other Christian kings of the peninsula: "...''if these four Kings of Spain whom he named, who are of one flesh and blood, held together, little need they fear all the other powers of the world.''..".<ref>[http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/muntaner_goodenough.pdf#page=206 Muntaner's Chronicle-p.206, L.Goodenough-Hakluyt-London-1921]</ref><ref>Margarit i Pau, Joan: ''Paralipomenon Hispaniae libri decem''.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Cervantes Virtual; f. LXXXIIIv. |url=http://www.lluisvives.com/servlet/SirveObras/jlv/91348064098793506388868/ima0197.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141121190623/http://www.lluisvives.com/servlet/SirveObras/jlv/91348064098793506388868/ima0197.htm |archive-date=21 November 2014 |access-date=4 September 2017}}</ref> After the dynastic union of the [[Catholic Monarchs of Spain|Catholic Monarchs]] in the 15th century, the Spanish Monarchy ruled over different kingdoms, each with its own cultural, linguistic and political particularities, and the kings had to swear by the [[Laws]] of each territory before the respective [[Parliament]]s. Forming the [[Spanish Empire]], at this time the [[Habsburg Spain|Hispanic Monarchy]] had its maximum territorial expansion.