This piece discusses the first nationalist movement using specific examples from Scandinavia and Moldovia. It discusses the role of the Romantic Movement for laying the cultural aesthetic groundwork that was a platform to bolster nationalism in the hearts and minds of the people. And how this was rooted in the folk soul of the indigenous culture of Europeans.

Sections include:

Reactionism Requires Grounding

The Romantics’ Rejection of Urban Values

The Building of Nations

Nurturing Folk Identity

A Way Forward

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