TERMS April 10 2014 Ricky Jay Khia Khan Khruse Ouija boards Nationalism Heinrich von Treitschke Anti Semitism Greece 1821 Byron Navarino 1827 Italy Mazzini Cavour Garibaldi Prussia Germany Bismarck Imperialism British E India Co Factory forts Sir William Jones Royal Asiatic Society Africa Berlin Conference 1884 5 Congo Free State Leopold II Orientalism National museums The Master Kar Mi Ouija board Orientalist craze Defining Nation A group linked by common descent shared history language religion and or culture An imagined community A nation is NOT necessarily a country Defining Nationalism The belief that one s devotion to the nation should be stronger than any other group loyalty or individual interest Cultural unity should define political reality each nation should have its own state Greek Nationalism in Paris Constantinople and Greece Lord Byron s grave Greece at Independence 1830 Dreaming of Modern Greece X X Modern Greece Italian unification Prussia becomes Germany British India European Scramble for Africa Leopold s Empire Showing the European Equivalent of the Congo Free State Leopold s Congo as seen in Europe 1906 After the Scramble Europe Less than 7 of the world s land surface but Europe and the New Europe in the Americas controlled 84 of the world s land surface in 1914 And they were sure they deserved it British overseas domains 1914 British Museum 1824 Istanbul Archaeological Museum 1869